Regions with greater socioeconomic inequalities are more affected by cold weather, whereas areas with higher levels of wealth ...

Malaysia is resorting to cloud seeding to bring much-needed rain to the country's "rice bowl" north, where a drought has ...

The European Union's climate monitor said Friday that ocean temperatures are edging toward record highs as conditions shift ...

A new computational method could dramatically accelerate efforts to map the body's cells in space, according to a study ...

Satellite images, weather maps and other data are collected in enormous quantities—but much of this remains unused. The ...

Garlic is not a substance that most people consider an aphrodisiac. It turns out that mosquitoes agree. In fact, a new Yale study finds that garlic also functions as a de facto birth control for ...

For decades, the common explanation for why children struggle to read has stayed remarkably consistent. Smart kids read well. Kids who don't simply aren't smart enough. And when children strain over a ...

Forming social connections online and via social media reduces how much people engage with and learn from the content posted but significantly boosts their networking performance, according to new ...

University of Birmingham researchers have demonstrated a new method to break down toxic pollutants in wastewater, using ...

Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) have developed a solid polymer coated with harmless viruses to detect the bacteria Salmonella enterica (S. enterica), an advance that could lead to ...

When most people think about biodiversity in lakes and rivers, they imagine fish, plants, or perhaps birds and amphibians. But beneath the surface exists another world that often goes unnoticed: ...

With over 60,000 ships passing through the Strait of Gibraltar each year, this stretch between the Atlantic and Mediterranean ...