The average life span for Americans hovered around 40 years for the first 100 years of the nation's existence. But after 1880 ...

Shielding astronauts from the deadly radiation they face is a central challenge for any designer of a deep-space crewed ...

Virtual fences could make managing grazing livestock on farms more flexible and more efficient while improving animal welfare ...

As the adoption of electric vehicles continues to grow, so does the need for the safe and permanent storage of battery ...

Climate change threatens many plant and animal species not only when their habitats disappear as climatic conditions change, ...

More than half a century ago, Sir Roger Penrose envisioned a scenario in which energy could be extracted from a black hole ...

Imagine trying to trap a miniature star inside a machine without letting it touch the walls or burn itself out. This is the ...

The molecular machinery that normally builds proteins inside cells has now taken on a new role as a "switch." A research team ...

Fast identification of bacteria is important in health care, food safety, environmental monitoring and infection control. One ...

Across a narrow watershed in Asakura, a rural city in Fukuoka Prefecture, centuries-old stone channels still guide water ...

The world's largest whale graveyard has been discovered at the bottom of the Indian Ocean by Chinese scientists, who found ...

Researchers have traced the journey of a plastic bottle cap recovered near the waters of southern Japan by combining data ...