On a misty winter's day in the English midlands, engineers struggled to drag stranded narrowboats from a waterless, mud-filled canal that collapsed weeks earlier, in a delicate, multi-million-pound ...

Human-caused climate change had an important impact on the recent ferocious wildfires that engulfed parts of Chile and Argentina's Patagonia region, making the extremely high-risk conditions that led ...

The Trump administration on Thursday will revoke a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to ...

Unchecked use of technology and pandemic isolation have "reshaped" how teenagers develop—but it's not too late to intervene. This is the stark warning of educator Amber Chandler, who suggests teens ...

Apart from a few exceptional cases, chemistry is often perceived as difficult, abstract and removed from real life. This ...

A new study has found that L1td1, a protein evolutionarily co-opted from the Long interspersed nuclear element 1 (LINE1) ...

Plastic pollution has become a major global environmental concern as modern societies rely increasingly on plastic products.

In 18th- and 19th-century Ireland, it was common for courting couples to exchange gifts to mark their developing relationships. Many of these items are familiar gifts today: books, cards, items of ...

It's February, and you grab a box of cheap Valentine's chocolate from the grocery store on your lunch break. Later, you're ...

School restrictive smartphone policies may save a small amount of money for schools, primarily by reducing the amount of time staff spend on managing phone-related behaviors, but they make little ...

A Dartmouth study finds that molecular hitchhikers living within bacteria can make their hosts extra resistant to medical ...

Farmers now have more reasons to consider rotating their crops, University of Alberta research shows. Widely used to restore ...