Graduate student Abby Civrello examines a sample of engine oil created from upcycled plastic waste in Greg Liu’s lab. Credit: ...

Credit: University of Münster A German and Turkish research team is studying a shrinking glacier as a record of past climate ...

Annual sediment totals may be masking a major change in how rivers behave. New research using high-frequency observations and ...

The return is reviving memories of a pest that once inflicted enormous losses on American agriculture. In the 1950s, New ...

A widely used fertility drug may carry a hidden tradeoff: as treatment adds up, the risks may rise without improving the odds ...

For years, melanoma researchers have faced a frustrating contradiction. Experiments suggested that periodically stopping ...

Inside an unusual magnetic material, electrons are doing something physicists did not expect: slowing to a near crawl while ...

The canalized state can be understood as an elliptical wavefront stretched so far that the ellipse’s focal points effectively ...

New research from Brigham Young University found that young married couples who were physically active together tended to ...

Before this discovery, the earliest widely accepted cephalopod was Plectronoceras cambria, which lived during the late ...

For almost 40 years, scientists knew zhelestids mainly from scattered teeth and fragmentary remains. Their low, rounded teeth ...

Two birds small enough to rest on a thumbnail have emerged from 40,000-year-old layers inside Hohle Fels Cave. Carved from ...