A compost bacterium produced CCPUR1, the strongest enzyme yet found for breaking down polyurethane and nylon plastic.

Rainwater in the Amazon carried a chemical warning of severe drought weeks before conditions reached their worst point.

Satellite images show glacier and bedrock that broke off the mountain near the Nepal-Tibet border caused the flood disaster ...

Reading for pleasure is linked to sharper attention in children, lower stress in adults, and a reduced risk of dementia in ...

A tongueless, nearly blind frog hunts fish in murky water using star-shaped fingertips as sensitive as a human fingertip.

Microscopic clues in volcanic ash reveal how magma breaks apart, heals, and sticks back together during explosive eruptions.

Nitrogen locked in coral skeletons traces 270 years of Mississippi River pollution reaching a reef long considered remarkably ...

A dinosaur known for nearly 170 years was named from a single tooth. New fossils from embryo to adult could finally give it a ...

New research suggests Venus could once have had a moon, only for the planet’s unusually slow rotation to pull it inward until ...

Wildfire smoke can reduce bird diversity the following year, even in places where nearby land never actually burned.

Scientists found mosquito waste can reveal West Nile virus, unexpected viruses, parasites, and clues about local mosquito ...

An AI model trained on 227 tested chemicals ranked 1,163 tap water disinfection byproducts. Several unregulated chemicals scored worse than those limited by the EPA.