Plastic trash has reached the world's most remote locations, from the bottom of the Mariana Trench to the summit of Everest.

Climate change is one of the most pressing global challenges in the present times. Increasing carbon dioxide (CO2) ...

Australian scientists have made a significant leap forward in energy storage technology with the world's first ...

How does fine dust aggregate into building blocks that ultimately form entire planets like our Earth? A research team led by ...

In one of the biggest surprises of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, its target asteroid, Bennu, turned out to be a jagged, rugged ...

Birds play a larger role in the dispersal of wild cotton than previously assumed. This is shown by a study in the journal ...

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have created a new and unusual state of matter—known as a supersolid—by ...

Every eleven years, the sun's magnetic field flips. Sunspots—dark, cooler regions on the sun's surface that mark intense ...

A study clarifies the date of an important technological milestone: the adoption of the bow and arrow in western North ...

Scientists at Caltech have figured out how to precisely engineer tiny three-dimensional (3D) metallic pieces with nanoscale ...

Superconducting materials could play a crucial role in the energy-efficient applications of the future. However, several ...

Inside a diseased cell, the genes are in chaos. Some are receiving signals to overproduce a protein. Others are reducing ...