science

Scientists at Stanford University have designed an electrocatalytic mechanism that works like a mammalian lung to convert water into fuel. Their research, published December...

Surfers spend much of their time watching long waves come onto the shoreline as they attempt to catch one right as it begins to...

MIT researchers have demonstrated a new way to store unused heat from car engines, industrial machinery, and even sunshine until it's needed. Central to...

A team of scientists has for the first time measured the elusive weak interaction between protons and neutrons in the nucleus of an atom....

Sea levels are rising globally from ocean warming and melting of land ice, but the seas aren't rising at the same rate everywhere. Sea...

Researchers from the University of Maryland have for the first time measured an effect that was predicted more than 40 years ago, called the...

High levels of the carcinogenic chemical cadmium can still be found in everyday household products like second-hand plastic toys, drinking glasses, alcoholic beverage bottles,...

Using uranium-lead dating, Senckenberg scientists, in cooperation with an international team, were able to date the onset of the "Cambrian explosion" to precisely 538.8...

It was a prehistoric clash of the ages that didn't end pretty when a monster in the sky clashed with a beast of the...

An adolescent star in the midst of a dramatic growth phase has been observed with the help of two NASA space telescopes. The youngster...

We like to keep the air in our homes as clean as possible, and sometimes we use HEPA air filters to keep offending allergens...