Scientists calculated average ocean temperatures from 1999 to 2015, separately using ocean buoys and satellite data, and confirmed the uninterrupted...
Protecting the environment can be as easy as telling your kids to go outdoors and play, according to a new...
Even a single urban tree can help moderate wind speeds and keep pedestrians comfortable as they walk down the street,...
We are producing ever greater amounts of plastic – much of which ends up as garbage. What’s more, because plastic...
In the case of a loaf of bread, the main source of these emissions is the nitrogen fertiliser used to...
A new concept proposes to provide food, energy and water resources for the world's growing population by combining systems that...
Scotland will block fracking indefinitely after a public consultation found overwhelming opposition to the practice, the British region's energy minister...
There is growing evidence for the environmental and health benefits of gardens and gardening. Access to green spaces has been...
An office enriched with plants makes staff happier and boosts productivity by 15 per cent, a University of Queensland researcher...
A new study by researchers at the University of Houston College of Optometry, published in Ophthalmic & Physiological Optics, found...
The cacophony of noise town centres could trigger heart problems, a new study suggests, after scientists found that fluctuating sounds...
With its catalogue of headstands and one-legged contortions, it might be thought yoga was best left only to those in...
More than a quarter of all evening meals in the UK are vegan or vegetarian, research shows. In the 12...
Smartphones and tablets disrupt sleep, in part, because they emit what's known as "blue" light. This light is picked up...
The reason why raindrops and spilled coffee splash has been revealed by scientists. The new theory uncovers – for first...
A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that plastic particles in water may end up inside fish brains....
It’s a well-known fact that water, at sea level, starts to boil at a temperature of 212 degrees Fahrenheit, or...
By precisely shaking a container of shallow water, researchers have observed wave behavior that has never been seen before. In...
The second state of liquid water could be a result of its unusual molecular structure, which takes the shape of...
A federally funded research effort to revolutionize water treatment has yielded a direct solar desalination technology that uses energy from...
We all know that water melts at 0°C. However, already 150 years ago the famous physicist Michael Faraday discovered that...
An international team of physicists has “stumbled upon” an entirely new material, which they have called "Weyl-Kondo semimetal”. The “semimetal”...
Nasa is planning to launch a probe to collect rock samples from an asteroid it fears could one day hit...
Some of the world's most renowned scientists are questioning whether the cosmos has an inner life similar to our own....
An elongated coronal hole stretching across the face of the sun sent solar wind particles gushing toward Earth last week....
Can a planet be alive? Lynn Margulis, a giant of late 20th-century biology, who had an incandescent intellect that veered...
Astronomers have discovered a new asteroid—just in time to catch it as it hurtled past us at less than a...
Spending a year in space not only changes your outlook, it transforms your gene expression. Preliminary results from NASA's Twins...
