Whether it's rivers cutting through earth, lava melting through rock, or water slicing through ice, channels all twist and ...

Iron oxide minerals are found in rocks around the globe. Some are magnetic, and some of them rust—especially when exposed to ...

Anyone who likes to visit their local cafe is familiar with the following scenario. Upon purchasing your lunch, a cashier ...

Hearing begins with the stretching of elastic molecular "springs" that open ion channels in the sensory hair cells of the ear ...

Canada on Wednesday proposed phasing out "forever chemicals" in many consumer products after finding them to be toxic and ...

Some beetles, such as Anomala albopilosa, strongly reflect left circularly polarized light (electromagnetic waves that ...

How can we produce clean hydrogen without burning fossil hydrocarbons or other non-renewable energy sources? We can do so ...

The biggest challenge to limiting climate change to 2°C, the upper target of the 2015 Paris agreement, is this: methane ...

Mission engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California turned off the cosmic ray subsystem experiment ...

Much like humans generate mountains of garbage, our cells are constantly discarding proteins that are damaged or no longer ...

Some bacteria deploy tiny spearguns to retaliate against rival attacks. Researchers at the University of Basel have mimicked ...