Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Cheryl Robinson covers areas of leadership, pivoting and careers. Neurodivergent professionals operate with a "parallel ...

Do you suffer from parallelophobia? If you deal with an irrational fear of parallel parking, you're not alone. Nearly half of all Americans suffer from this condition, and in Britain, many would ...

Parking is not always an easy task. Sometimes spots are too tight, too small or positioned strangely — not to mention the potential obstacles hindering your perfect parking, like other vehicles, trees ...

Tiny but mighty: Downy woodpeckers drill into trees with a force 20 to 30 times their body weight. Brown University How do downy woodpeckers—North America’s smallest woodpeckers—manage to drill holes ...

“…No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, / No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds! — / November!” ("November," Thomas Hood, 1844) Taptaptapping ...

Don't be fooled by that soft-looking down and pretty faces – woodpeckers are tough, tree-pounding beasts who simultaneous harden their whole bodies like a hammer and grunt as they drill away with ...

In electrical and electronic engineering, capacitors are fundamental components. They appear across all manner of applications, including power supplies, analogue filters, timing circuits, and energy ...

A downy woodpecker taps away at a crabapple tree in Colorado. Lewis Geyer/Digital First Media/Boulder Daily Camera via Getty Images Get the Popular Science daily ...

Hidden beneath all their rum-pum-pumming, woodpeckers are quietly grunt-grunt-grunting. The birds exhale with each strike, much like a tennis pro groaning through a stroke. Elaborate coordination ...

Woodpeckers pack a punch, pounding wood with extreme force and experiencing decelerations of up to 400g. Now, researchers reveal in the Journal of Experimental Biology that drilling woodpeckers turn ...

At the end of last year, we reported that Americans can't get enough of hybrid cars, and that hasn't changed much for 2025. For instance, per GreenCars, sales jumped another 36% in the second quarter ...

The red-cockaded woodpecker was last spotted in the state in 1994. The Tennessee Wildlife Resrource Agency hopes to reintroduce the birds in 2028. Red-cockaded woodpecker population declined rapidly ...