Brazil's environmental goals suffered a major setback in May as deforestation in the Amazon surged 92% compared to the same ...

Antarctica could see a doubling of extreme weather events—such as atmospheric rivers—by 2100, with implications for future ...

Dust particles thrown up from deserts such as the Sahara and Gobi are playing a previously unknown role in air pollution, a ...

Researchers have developed a laboratory earthquake model that connects the microscopic real contact area between fault ...

Impossible" films, superspy Ethan Hunt—played by Tom Cruise—gets orders from his superiors on various devices that ...

In a major step forward for sustainable pigment production, scientists have successfully engineered the oilseed crop Camelina ...

Sarin (isopropyl methyl fluorophosphonate) is an organophosphorus nerve agent regulated by the Convention on the Banning of ...

Just a few meters beneath the clear, blue waters of Okinawa, reef-building corals known as Scleractinia have quietly lived ...

Once in a while, scientific research resembles detective work. Researchers head into the field with a hypothesis and high ...

Big animals of the ocean go about their days mostly hidden from view. Scientists know these marine megafauna—such as whales, ...

The LHCb experiment has taken a leap in precision physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In a new paper submitted to ...

Researchers from the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and their collaborators have ...