Climate change and 'atmospheric thirst' to increase fire danger and drought in NV and CA

Canada govt seeks carbon neutrality by 2050

Astronaut: SpaceX Dragon beats shuttle, Soyuz for launching

Increasing diversity and community participation in environmental engineering

Elephant genetics guide conservation

Researchers identify features that could make someone a virus super-spreader

Researchers invent novel vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser

Predicting forces between oddly shaped nanoparticles

Students discover hidden 15th-century text on medieval manuscripts

'Strange rays' crowdsourced on social media shed light on black hole illumination

NSF plans to decommission Arecibo Observatory's 305m telescope due to safety concerns

Vibrations of coronavirus proteins may play a role in infection

Green hydrogen: Buoyancy-driven convection in the electrolyte

Researchers have succeeded in directly observing the formation and interaction of highly ionized krypton plasma

Sky survey reveals newborn jets in distant galaxies

Program successful in increasing private donations to public universities, study shows

The secret social lives of giant poisonous rats

Researchers present insights in the search for new antibiotics

Plastic film used to protect foods and surfaces inactivates novel coronavirus

Hidden 15th-century text on medieval manuscripts

An imperceptible thin-film sensor to record movement and the sense of touch

Researchers prove water has multiple liquid states

New effective and safe antifungal isolated from sea squirt microbiome

Researchers recommend more transparency for gene-edited crops

Molecular telegraphy: Precisely sending and receiving single molecules

Information Overload Helps Fake News Spread, and Social Media Knows It

The secret social lives of giant poisonous rats

Ice Drownings Expected to Rise as Winters Warm

US emissions plummeted this year—for all the wrong reasons

Legendary Arecibo Telescope Will Close Forever, and Scientists Are Reeling

Bruges shelters canal swans from bird flu

Green hydrogen: Buoyancy-driven convection in the electrolyte

Huge Puerto Rico radio telescope to close in blow to science

Rare gene mutation hints at 'fountain of youth'

Video: Why do my dog's paws smell like Fritos?

Creating chaos: Craters and collapse on Mars

Could kelp help relieve ocean acidification?

New membrane could pave way for cheap, efficiently made biofuels

Giant aquatic bacterium is a master of adaptation

Building better diffusion models for active systems

Grazing and riparian restoration are compatible when you put in the work

New process narrows the gap between natural and synthetic materials

We created diamonds in minutes without heat by mimicking the force of an asteroid collision

A filter for environmental remediation

Physicist investigates unexplained behavior of cell receptors

Research advances sustainability in surgical latex glove manufacturing

Confirming simulated calculations with experiment results

The second-largest radio telescope in the world is shutting down

Researchers create first map of bee species around the globe

Researchers peer inside deadly pathogen's burglary kit

Very hungry and angry, caterpillars head-butt to get what they want

Transition to feudal living in 14th century impacted local ecosystems

Solitary confinement by any other name is still torture

Palaeontologists describe a preservation process unique to resins

Group tables, ottomans and gym balls: Kids told us why flexible furniture helps them learn

Demise of a glacier, uncovering a fjord

The first battle for oil in Norway

Solving for nuclear structure in light nuclei

Why the 'extreme intoxication' defence is dangerous for women

Researchers discover a new coral reef in Australia's Great Barrier Reef—the first such discovery in 120 years

New tool to combat terrorism

Three reasons for information exhaustion—and what to do about it

Enhancing crystal growth using polyelectrolyte solutions and shear flow

New electrocatalyst for hydrogen production with enhanced faradaic efficiency

Glaciers in Canada found to be thicker than previously suggested

Universal three-dimensional crosslinker for all-photopatterned electronics

Newly discovered metabolic pathway uses single carbon gases as a feedstock

Endangered juvenile smalltooth sawfish found in St. Lucie river

Superaerophobic hydrogels for enhanced electrochemical and photoelectrochemical hydrogen production

Designing water splitting catalysts using waste-yeast biomass

Scattering of adiabatically aligned molecules by non-resonant optical standing waves

Blue whales return to sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia after near local extinction

Blue whales return to South Georgia after near extinction

Bacteria convince their squid host to create a less hostile work environment

Researchers collaborate to study antimicrobial use in food animal industries

Many women were ill-prepared for the pandemic's financial challenges, study reveals

COVID-related unemployment hits people of color, women and older workers hardest

Tungsten develops layers under fusion reactor extreme heat conditions

Evaluating COVID Risk on Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Model filter system removes antibiotics from wastewater

Looking at liquid cells in variable gravity

Scientists age quantum dots in a test tube

Surfaces help quantum switches

Topological mechanical metamaterials go beyond Newton's third law

Some glaciers in the Tetons found to have survived the early Holocene warming

'Oasis effect' in urban parks could contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, study finds

Why we should be funding more Solyndras

Study investigates mode switching phenomenon in the pulsar PSR J1326−6700

'Oasis effect' in urban parks could contribute to greenhouse gas emissions

The mission to decipher a mysterious aerosol layer above Himalayan monsoon clouds

A 2-D perspective: Stacking materials to realize a low power consuming future

Waste milk could be used to reduce power plant carbon dioxide emissions

Can animals use iridescent colors to communicate?

3-D-printed glass enhances optical design flexibility

Slow Gains against the Virus

Chromatin regulation enables generation of diverse antibodies

Near-infrared probe decodes telomere dynamics

Flame on! How AI may tame a complex materials technique and transform manufacturing

Entropy production gets a system update

Scientists propose machine learning method for 2-D material spectroscopy

New trilobite fossil reveals cephalic specialization of trilobites in Middle Cambrian

Solar radiation accelerates carbon cycle process of temperate forest ecosystems

Researchers describe previously unknown mechanism for inducing electron emission in highly oriented pyrolitic graphite

We Sometimes Missed the Boat--and Bridge

Uncovering the hidden side of storms: France's Taranis satellite to launch in November

Machine learning yields a breakthrough in the study of stellar nurseries

A research tool developed to study organelles that give color to skin, hair, and eyes

The fundamental chemistry behind electrocatalytic water splitting

Going beyond the anti-laser may enable long-range wireless power transfer

New understanding of mobility paves way for tomorrow's transport systems

Research team pushes back the boundaries of high-energy laser pulses

Your Tears Might Save Your Life Someday

New Space Weather Network Extends over Africa

UN climate chief: pledges by big polluters boost Paris hopes

Los Angeles and Google partner on 'Tree Canopy' project

Storm Iota leaves over 30 dead in Central America

Asia’s biggest climate migration

Air pollution costs Utahns billions annually and shortens life expectancy by two years

Synthesis study demonstrates phytoplankton can bloom below Arctic sea ice

Mining and megaprojects emerge as alarming threat to tropical forests and biodiversity

Early Mammals Had Social Lives, Too