Researchers from the University of Cape Town (UCT), working with international collaborators, have shown that people in ...

Microorganisms live in biofilms—the equivalent of microbial "cities"—everywhere on Earth. These city-like structures protect and house microbial communities and play essential roles in enabling human ...

If there's one material that defines modern life more than any other, it's plastic: present from the moment we're born in newborn stool, in product packaging, in the soil beneath our feet and the air ...

For many years, cesium atomic clocks have been reliably keeping time around the world. But the future belongs to even more ...

Researchers at the University of Oulu, Finland, have developed a pine-bark–based water-treatment medium that efficiently ...

Carbon dioxide removal technologies are becoming increasingly important for climate action, but their differing storage times ...

Existing algorithms can partially reconstruct the shape of a single tree from a clean point-cloud dataset acquired by ...

Astronomers have long sought evidence to explain why comets at the outskirts of our own solar system contain crystalline ...

A new CIIMAR study demonstrates that natural peptides produced by cyanobacteria are capable of replacing toxic biocides that ...

Oregon State University researchers have painted a clearer picture of the coastal marten, a secretive, ferret-sized forest ...

Snow is a defining feature of mountain ranges, and of winter itself for much of the world. But beyond its scenic value, snow ...

A winter storm bringing very cold temperatures is expected to slam a massive stretch of the United States this week with more ...