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

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

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

For the first time, a quantum radiation reaction in strong electromagnetic fields has been demonstrated experimentally by ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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