Over the past 8,000 years, Utah's Great Salt Lake has been sensitive to changes in climate and water inflow. Now, new ...

Researchers at Rice University and collaborating institutions have discovered direct evidence of active flat electronic bands ...

Elon Musk's SpaceX announced Friday that its Starship megarocket is scheduled to blast off on a new test flight next weekend ...

Hurricane Erin gained strength Friday as it churned in the Atlantic Ocean and bore down on the Caribbean, where it could ...

Topological spin textures, spatially organized patterns linked to the intrinsic angular momentum of particles, have proved to be highly advantageous for the development of spintronics and quantum ...

A new study maps the planetary boundary of "functional biosphere integrity" in spatial detail and over centuries. It finds ...

A team of scientists from Korea and Japan has discovered a new type of crystal that can "breathe"—releasing and absorbing ...

Eighty years ago this week, Japan surrendered after nearly four years of war in the Asia-Pacific. For Australia, this meant ...

Researchers at the College of Design and Engineering (CDE) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a ...

The pathway from climate change to violent conflict is not simple. There are the obvious immediate effects of global warming ...

Electricity flows through wires to deliver power, but it loses energy as it moves, delivering less than it started with. But ...

A plucked guitar string can vibrate for seconds before falling silent. A playground swing, emptied of its passenger, will ...