"Something he’s said over and over is that he was trying to find a life raft, and there was a rope, but there was a big spider on the rope, and he was too scared to throw it," Dorsey says.

The results of this research will help improve nylon recycling. The study has just been published in the journal Nature Microbiology. Synthetic polyamides, better known as nylon, have a long ...

In the mid-1980s, Fisher started seriously jumping rope to leap higher, an effort to improve as an amateur volleyball player at Emory University in Atlanta. Fisher was so enamored of his rope ...