Tree shade is one of the fastest ways to make heat more bearable. It cuts direct sunlight, protects people walking or working outdoors, and remains essential for heat action plans. A new study by ...

Feelings of despair at the state of the world can be overwhelming. Social and environmental problems persist, but political discourse is polarized, divisive and often ineffective.

In new research published in Nature Materials, a team of researchers led by Columbia University chemist Xiaoyang Zhu, in ...

A great Tyrannosaurus rex strides through the conifer trees of her territory, sniffing the air. She picks up the scent from ...

Advances in DNA sequencing have expanded our view of the microbial world, but the inability to cultivate most microbes has ...

Understanding how protons move at the interface between polymers and electrode materials is essential for improving fuel ...

A computational method combining generative AI with atomistic simulations can identify promising platinum alloy catalyst structures for hydrogen fuel cells, report researchers from Science Tokyo.

A new Rice University study is shedding light on a long-debated question: Can climate variability influence the risk of armed ...

Researchers have cautioned that well-intended suggested changes to carbon markets risk worsening climate impacts if core ...

Most of what scientists know about face development comes from studies in bony vertebrates such as mice, chickens, and zebrafish. However, their evolutionary counterparts, cartilaginous fishes, have ...

What are the first steps that chart the path for a cell to become a blood cell, neuron cell, or pigment cell? Scientists have developed increasingly powerful tools to track those changes, but one ...

Under the lead of the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW), climate simulations were used to ...