A team of scientists used ice samples from the North Greenland Ice Core Project to measure, date, and analyze European lead emissions captured between 1100 BC and AD 800

A study shows that by suppressing the production of serotonin, rice plants become more resistant to their two most serious predators

A team from KAUST has proposed a simple method that, in just five minutes, can produce a flexible film with a complex hierarchical structure that has repeating patterns of interconnected, regularly shaped pores

An updated version of the industry standard DVR2, it has improved software to reduce battery consumption

The storms intensify more rapidly today due largely to a natural climate phenomenon

Engineers studied self-assembled block polymer membranes, which allow for both customizable and uniform pore sizes, as a platform for water treatment systems

Researchers say the most imminent threat is a planned U.S. $1.6 billion mega-dam—the Batang Toru project

Near-shore animal becomes plant-like after pilfering tiny solar panels and storing them in its gut

According to previous studies, feeding urban populations accounts for 20 to 30 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions

Researchers say industrial sea fishing may be exposing people in coastal and island nations to excessively high levels of mercury

Wastes entering treatment plants are a rich source of information about a population

It contains the biggest genome ever sequenced for a virus infecting a photosynthetic organism