Urea is considered a possible key molecule in the origin of life. ETH researchers have discovered a previously unknown way in ...

The transition to agriculture and a sedentary lifestyle is one of the great turning points in human history. Yet how this ...

A new study, published in Nature Nanotechnology and featured on the journal's front cover this month, has uncovered insights ...

After nearly 20 years of operations, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is on a roll, performing a new maneuver to ...

A new study published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology and led by researchers at Columbia University Mailman ...

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NOAA and its research partners are forecasting a mild to moderate harmful algal bloom (HAB) in western Lake Erie this summer.

Scientists have identified what could be the oldest rocks on Earth from a rock formation in Canada. The Nuvvuagittuq ...

While laughter is often considered uniquely human, tied to language and sense of humor, all great apes produce remarkably ...

We know black hole mergers occur because we can detect the resulting gravitational waves. But when trying to piece together ...

What if electricity and magnetism, usually considered as separate or even competing forces in materials, could actually work ...