A team led by Brandon Boor at Purdue University has shown that fragrance compounds in cleaning products, whether conventional ...

Although controlled experiments offer promise for improving weather forecasts, progress in real-world applications has been ...

Venus is unique among the inner planets. Earth has the Moon, Mars has two small satellites, and even Mercury may once have had companions that the Sun’s gravity stripped away. But Venus today is ...

The bright points are radio-emitting galaxies and other compact sources, whose emission is much stronger than the faint ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have uncovered compelling evidence of massive black holes in the ...

Participants were randomly assigned to either standard treatment or immediate monitoring for 14 days using a small, waterproof, leadless device that continuously recorded their heart rhythms. In the ...

For over ten years, scientists have put forward two different explanations for one of the ocean’s more unusual trends: the increase in squid numbers between 1970 and 2010. A recent modeling study now ...

According to a new study, Earth will become uninhabitable in about 250 million years due to extreme heat, volcanic activity, and the formation of a superheated supercontinent. Human activities and ...

Every year, millions of tons of sulfur quietly pile up as waste from petroleum refining. For decades, this yellow element has been treated as little more than an industrial by-product. But now, a team ...

Emails rule modern life—from friendly check-ins to serious business. But when you hit “send,” what makes someone actually write back? Scientists have long studied what helps a request succeed, like ...

Snakebite envenoming is a severe and neglected tropical disease that kills ~100,000 people yearly. A high-quality, genome-enabled, comprehensive portrayal of toxin genes will encourage the development ...

The Regional Cabled Array spans the entire Juan de Fuca tectonic plate, from the Oregon coast to the summit of Axial Seamount 300 miles offshore. Credit: University of Washington Axial Seamount, an ...