Ultrashort laser pulses—that are shorter than a millionth of a millionth of a second—have transformed fundamental science, ...

When the world slowed down during the COVID-19 pandemic, its effects extended beyond humans. A recent study found that it ...

Global peatlands—huge expanses of partially decayed vegetation—store more carbon than is naturally present in the atmosphere ...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) engineers and scientists, in collaboration with Stanford University, have ...

British policymakers planning for climate change now have detailed worst-case scenarios at their disposal, filling a gap that ...

PFAS are forever chemicals that do not degrade in the environment. They enter soil and water, accumulate in plants, animals ...

Just when we thought we had described all the possible marine environmental recipients of plastic pollution, new research ...

Stanford researchers have uncovered evidence that deep underwater earthquakes can spur the growth of massive phytoplankton ...

In physics and materials science, the term "spin chirality" refers to an asymmetry in the arrangement of spins (i.e., the ...

Using the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope, astronomers have discovered a new millisecond pulsar (MSPs) at a ...

Superconductors are materials that can conduct electricity with zero resistance, usually only at very low temperatures. Most ...

Researchers from the University of Innsbruck, the Collège de France, and the Université Libre de Bruxelles have developed a ...