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 ...

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

Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) is commonly associated with both health concerns and poor visibility. However, these two ...

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

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

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A flash flood can devastate a community for years in a matter of minutes. These disasters account for roughly 85% of floods ...

"Is there enough water? What's happening with climate change? How do I operate my hydro plant? In a world of water problems, ...

Imagine you're an infant. Just a few months in the world, trying to gather your faculties, testing gravity—you're pretty ...

Alongside words, humans have a treasure trove of nonverbal tools to help express themselves. We chuckle, sigh and gasp to ...

Thousands of meters below the waves off Australia's east coast, far beyond where sunlight can reach, a stunning light show ...