Water levels have plummeted at Lake Mead due to the American West’s historic drought, exposing corroded barrels. Firefighters struggled Friday…
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Tiny crystals unearthed in South Africa contain evidence of a sudden transition on the planet’s surface 3.8 billion years ago.These…
The April 4, 2022 report from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change makes it clear that it is “now…
New findings show a troubling lack of diversity—in participants and geography—in a fast-growing scientific field exploring nature’s effects on mental…
You’ve set a goal to hit the gym five days a week. But on day five, you wake up feeling…
For a new paper in the journal Science, Earth system scientists at UCI and other institutions tracked the greenhouse gas…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Five years ago, the United Nations’ panel on climate change was charged with drafting a series…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain After two of the most active hurricane seasons on record in 2020 and 2021, top hurricane…
Recent progress in nanotechnology paves the way for improved drug delivery, clinical diagnosis, and even environmental protection against toxic pollutants.…
Six newly-described species of miniature frogs from Mexico and Guatemala are so tiny that each can fit comfortably on a…
When it comes to how to improve your digestion, there are lots of things you can do to improve your…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new study finds companies that are more aggressive in their tax planning tend to do…
Wanted: lard oil and asbestos Credit: Scientific AmericanAdvertisement Although advertisements are meant to sell products, they can also provide insight…
Cars pass near pumpjacks in the Belridge oil field near McKittrick, California; oil and gas production is a major source…
Alexander Bardi-Spröwitz has seen more dissected ostriches than the average engineer. Twelve years ago the researcher, now at the Max…
Geologists have a reputation for facilitating the extraction of minerals and fossil fuels, says Christopher Jackson. Now we must use…
The Collider Detector at Fermilab recorded high-energy particle collisions produced by the Tevatron collider from 1985 to 2011. About 400…
Scientists at Scripps Research have invented a way to image, across different tissues and with higher precision than ever before,…
In 2021 Republican legislatures in 19 states passed 34 laws that restricted access to voting in more than a dozen…
The recent case of a driverless car that tried to escape its handlers might make us laugh, but it also…
By Clare Wilson GAP Photos/Anna Omiotek-Tott IN MY garden, bulbs such as snowdrops are coming up. Every year, I wonder…
As the climate crisis grows, “cli-fi” books are driving action by showing dark, all-too-possible futures, says climate researcher Bill McGuire.…
By Gege Li THIS is a newly discovered colony of gentoo penguins on Andersson Island off the Antarctic Peninsula, photographed…
Orbiting 500 km above the earth, the Fermi Large Area Telescope collects gamma rays from millisecond pulsars. As these high-energy…
Flexible, squishy hydrogel materials are used in a dizzying array of applications, from soft contact lenses to Jell-O. But all…
How confident can shoppers be that they are getting beef products from cattle that have been raised without antibiotics? Not…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Ocean water samples collected around the world have yielded a treasure trove of new data about…
Plants rely on a process called carbon fixation — turning carbon dioxide from the air into carbon-rich biomolecules – for…
Robbie Goodall/Getty Images “We learn geology the morning after the earthquake,” the 19th-century essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote. The…
Protected areas — such as nature reserves, national parks, and wilderness areas — are essential to conserving biodiversity. New research…