In June 1774, an English carpenter named John Day attempted a stunt-like dive in a homemade “diving chamber” meant to reach about 130 feet and remain submerged for 12 hours. He was sealed inside and ...

A new kind of superhydrophobic metal, inspired by a water-dwelling spider, could form the foundational tech for “unsinkable” ships. The structure uses laser-etched nano- and microscale metals that ...

Toss a coin into a fountain, and you know what will happen. Being denser than water, the metal sinks—ask any child. But new research has challenged centuries of certainty. A team at the University of ...

An explosion at an apartment complex in Bell Gardens that left one person dead and injured two others, one of them a child, appears to have been caused by homemade explosives and fireworks, ...

A 64-year-old woman scuba diving at a popular diving spot off the coast of Catalina Island died after showing signs of distress in the water, authorities said. A 64-year-old woman died Saturday ...