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Global warming is turning clear mountain lakes green in the western United States because of an increase in algae blooms "without historical precedent", researchers...

Graphene consists of a single layer of carbon atoms. Exceptional electronic, thermal, mechanical, and optical properties have made graphene one of the most studied...

Packing for outer space? Here's one thing you won't want to forget. Northwestern University researchers have synthesized a new form of melanin enriched with selenium. Called...

According to the United Nations, about one-fifth of the world's population lives in areas where water is scarce. Therefore, technologies to produce clean water...

Microplastics (MPs), i.e., tiny plastic particles less than 5 millimeters in length, can now be found throughout the ocean and other aquatic ecosystems, and...

Curtin University-led research has found new evidence to suggest that the Earth's first continents were not formed by subduction in a modern-like plate tectonics...

In a paper published in the Astrophysical Journal, a team led by researchers at École Polytechnique have paved the way to unraveling the mystery as...

Aside from the deep understanding of the natural world that quantum physics theory offers, scientists worldwide are striving to bring forth a technological revolution...

Large brains have long differentiated humans and primates from other mammals and there is a clear evidence that brain mass increased through time. Now a...

Adding crushed rock dust to farmland could draw down up to two billion tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air per year and...

Scientists at Stanford University have discovered a surprising shift in the Arctic Ocean. Exploding blooms of phytoplankton, the tiny algae at the base of...