Back in the 1960s, the nuclear industry promised a future in which electricity was too cheap to meter. Decades later, the ...

Made of tiny bacteria, the new fake plant soaks up more carbon than its natural cousins, and produces electricity to boot ...

Grabbed. Drugged. Tied up. Collared. Animal tagging in the name of science can be rough. A team of researchers wondered what ...

When researchers auto-generated small apartment floor plans to make them efficient and comfortable, they found they could ...

A new survey of bacteria in bird feces reveals how humans are infecting animals, and how the problem could boomerang back to ...

In initial experiments, they found that the biochar was able to remove a striking 86% to 92% of the plastic particles from ...

In the middle of the 19 th century, millions of wild passenger pigeons were slaughtered each year in the United States to ...

Reconductoring has been mostly overlooked in the United States—until now. A new study finds the potential for billions of dollars in savings ...

Now researchers have found that they affect populations of microbes that form the base of aquatic food webs.

Jet biofuels are not necessarily less carbon intensive than fossil fuels, say researchers. In a side-by-side comparison of emissions, they found some grasses performed best.