Physicist Francis Halzen has an impressively long list of academic accolades—but every October, as the Nobel Prize rolled ...

Allen Schnibben's interest in space started when he was a child. "I picked up some books about the solar system when I was in ...

Scientists have produced a first-of-its-kind assessment showing which coastal regions of Europe they believe are at greatest risk from harmful light pollution.

As women go through menopause, their voices tend to become deeper. This is partly because the vocal folds may swell and the surrounding muscles lose elasticity, resulting in a lower pitch. Age-related ...

A study of the oil, gas and petroleum industry has found that "quiet firing" by employers is associated with higher levels of ...

Research by INRAE and AgroParisTech suggests that global warming could have an overall positive effect on sorghum yields in ...

Scientists are increasingly exploring carbon dioxide (CO₂) hydrogenation—where CO₂ reacts with hydrogen over a catalyst to ...

A new species of extinct crocodile from Egypt has been discovered, sharing more than just its home with the Great Sphinx.

For Dr. Jamaluddin Jompa, the ocean has never been simply a subject of scientific study. He was born in Takalar, a coastal region of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, and his connection with the sea was ...

Transporting material from Earth to the moon is an expensive proposition: By some estimates, moving a single kilogram (2.2 pounds) can cost more than $1 million. Any plan to build a permanent human ...

Magnesium (Mg) alloys offer a pathway to lighter, more efficient aerospace and defense structures because of their low density, high specific strength and excellent damping capacity. However, their ...

Four decades after the 1986 nuclear disaster, researchers at Leibniz University Hannover and the Helmholtz-Zentrum ...