Giant mirrors in space have been a staple of science fiction for decades. But so far, there's been very little work looking ...

Plutonium is one of the most complex elements in the periodic table. First synthesized and isolated in 1940 by scientists at ...

Natural gas still plays an important role in many industrial sectors, but it is a climate-damaging fossil fuel. TU Wien and ...

A new Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) study based on data from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has uncovered insights into ...

Over 70 million people in the U.S. are impacted by hearing loss, and age-related hearing loss is the second most common ...

Although modern crocodiles, alligators, caimans and gharials are restricted to the tropics, their fossil record tells a very ...

The global push for a transition to green energy has sparked demand for critical minerals such as lithium, vanadium, copper ...

The world is urbanizing fast. In 1975, about 11% of the global population lived in cities with more than 1 million ...

Scientists around the world have been searching food, water and other environmental media for microplastics and for per- and ...

An international expedition including University of Sydney researchers has pieced together the clearest picture yet of how ...

Scientists discovered a protein secreted by a deep-sea extremophile—an organism adapted to extreme environmental ...

Pioneering research has developed a new way of creating carbohydrate-based medicines that could ultimately replace costly ...