A study of one of the world's longest-running disaster warning systems—desert locust monitoring—finds surveillance limits ...

Indonesia plans to build a "giant sea wall," more than 500 kilometers long, to defend Java's north coast from rising sea levels.

Stored in an open-air warehouse in tropical Darwin, Australia, are dozens of trays containing cylindrical cores of rock. They are from drill holes bored hundreds of meters below the surface by mineral ...

In less than a millionth of a second after a nuclear detonation or a severe nuclear reactor accident, an enormous burst of ...

Educators and researchers around the world, especially in countries with limited resources, need cost-effective, scalable ...

Being able to see light and detect radiation is of utmost importance at any frequency. While this challenge has been solved ...

When people think about wildfires, they usually think about flames, smoke and evacuations. However, for many communities, ...

Honeybees are among the widely studied insects, due to their sophisticated, hierarchical social organization and their ...

Researchers from UC Santa Barbara's Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory (BOSL) and local partners in San Francisco have unveiled ...

A new Yale study identifies a distinct species of eyeless cavefish, a discovery that challenges long-held conventional wisdom ...

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Living bacteria embedded in coatings could clean wastewater, capture carbon and generate biofuels—but only if they survive ...