During a severe drought and heat wave in 2023, Amazonian lakes reached their highest recorded temperatures. Water ...

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The sense of fear is palpable in parts of northern Japan, where some locals have fastened bells to their bags hoping the ...

James D. Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution ...

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A new delivery particle developed at MIT could make mRNA vaccines more effective and potentially lower the cost per vaccine ...

Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica—often called the "Doomsday Glacier"—is one of the fastest-changing ice–ocean systems on ...

EU researchers are exploring how undersea communication cables can double-up as environmental and seismic sensors—a potential ...

For the first time, researchers have made niobium sulfide metallic nanotubes with stable, predictable properties, a ...

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Paris Agreement. At that time, the countries of the world agreed that global ...

The presence of reeds, an exotic and invasive plant capable of altering the ecological balance in the natural environment, ...

In the dense forests of northwestern Pennsylvania, hundreds of thousands of retired oil and gas wells—some dating back to the ...