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Developed at Oxford, the cells are just 1 micron thick, but they match conventional materials in efficiency.
Even products certified as "compostable" are causing headaches.
Coastlines are washing away, but a surprising technique could make grains of sand stick together and prevent erosion.
The sudden shift in water temperature is puzzling scientists.
Research shows that what you call climate change doesn’t affect how worried people are.
The fungus ruining Cavendish banana crops is evolutionarily distinct from a similar disease that famously killed off the Gros Michel bananas.
With a newly elected leader, the International Seabed Authority must decide the future of more than half of the world’s ocean floor.
After the fire destroyed his town in 2021, a state rep took on insurance companies, mortgage lenders, and landlords—and beat them all.
Parts of the U.S. have experienced record-setting heat waves over the past few summers, which may have caused pharmaceutical ingredients to degrade while en route.
To learn about how rocks and minerals get pushed from the Earth's mantle to the seafloor, scientists drilled a really, really deep hole.
Previous studies neglected to account for birds that were able to fly off before dying, resulting in estimates that were off by hundreds of millions.
Vice President Kamala Harris has chosen Minnesota governor Tim Walz as her running mate, bringing his strong climate action record and bipartisan approach to the national stage.
The skyward bursts, known as gigantic jets, originate in the clouds of intense thunderstorms.
Urban areas are growing around the world, but rather than sprawling outwards, their skylines are getting taller.
It wasn't just scientists who were worried, but Congress, the White House, and even Sports Illustrated.
The strange temperature fluctuation might be due to a rare stratospheric warming over the continent.
Peering up at the teardrop-shaped structures, the researchers compared the experience to seeing the far side of the Moon for the first time.
Pyrocumulonimbus clouds might offer a terrifying peek at the future of wildfires.
A perfect storm of hurricanes, diseases, and water scarcity threatens to wipe out the state's famed citrus industry.
Forests throughout the West are overgrown and full of flammable vegetation, fueling wildfires and carbon emissions. Could burying it help solve the problem?
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