The number of plastic bags found on the seabed has plummeted, suggesting efforts to combat plastic pollution are working. Government...
Scotland will block fracking indefinitely after a public consultation found overwhelming opposition to the practice, the British region's energy minister...
Researchers at Leicester University have shown that it might be possible to develop an alternative to antibiotics for treating diseases...
“We’re getting higher yields, but we’re not better off,” said T. Venkatesh, one of the cotton farmers, in an interview....
The breakthrough, spurred by the discovery of plastic-eating bugs at a Japanese dump, could help solve the global plastic pollution...
"Earth, and all life on it, are being saturated with man-made chemicals in an event unlike anything in the planet's...
Clearing tropical forests may raise the risk of people being exposed to a gruesome disease called Buruli ulcer, a new...
A new study finds that a noninvasive electromagnetic brain stimulation technique helps obese people lose weight, partly by changing the...
Roughly 80 percent of people around the globe identify with some type of religion, and scientists have been seriously pursuing...
PTSD will affect about 8 percent of people during their lives. A new study suggests that passively inhaling orange essential...
Canadian researchers studying the neuroscience of the moment of death ('necroneuroscience') have uncovered a surprising phenomenon: anomalous EEG activity up...
Fluoride in tap water can cause bone cancer in boys, a disturbing new study indicates, although there is no evidence...
Could the Sun be your lucky—or unlucky—star? In an unusual study published Wednesday, Norwegian scientists said people born during periods...
Mindfulness meditation, the practice of paying more attention to the present moment, helps lower stress hormones and decreases inflammation in...
Solar fuels, a dream of clean-energy research, are created using only sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide. Researchers are exploring a...
The reason why raindrops and spilled coffee splash has been revealed by scientists. The new theory uncovers – for first...
By precisely shaking a container of shallow water, researchers have observed wave behavior that has never been seen before. In...
“For years quite a few people speculated that such a gas state might exist,” Ducker explains. “This was based on...
Snow can be soft and fluffy or stinging and icy; perfect for skiing or prone to melt. The difference lies...
They call it a star in a jar: when sound waves crush bubbles of gas in a liquid, energy is...
The second state of liquid water could be a result of its unusual molecular structure, which takes the shape of...
The Earth's magnetic field surrounds our planet like an invisible force field – protecting life from harmful solar radiation by...
The idea that during sleep our minds shut down from the outside world is ancient and one that is still...
Every so often, given the proper conditions, a small and roughly spherical piece of the atmosphere around us will briefly...
Arch Crawford is the possessor of a long chain of dramatically correct economic predictions (or “calls”) which, since 1977, have...
A UK, Canadian and Italian study has provided what researchers believe is the first observational evidence that our universe could...
The phenomenon of imploding bubbles, called sonoluminescence because it emits a flash of light as the bubble collapses, has been...
A small but distinctive signal in X-rays from the Milky Way could be key to proving the existence of dark...
