A paper has been published discussing how and why humans evolved a preference for anything sour.

Scientists and governments met Monday to finalize a major UN report on how global warming disrupts people’s lives, their natural...

Nerve cells acting like a compass have been found in the brains of young streaked shearwaters, which become active when the migratory...

If you’ve ever been eaten alive by mosquitoes at a barbecue while the person sitting next to you escapes unbitten, the color of your...

Described by his PR team as "like Russia's Elon Musk," serial entrepreneur Mikhail Korkorich says his new company Destinus is building a...

A western Japan venture plans to build the first experimental plant in the country to generate power through nuclear fusion.

A fossilized bone unearthed some 40 years ago in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, and long thought to be from a reptile has turned out to be...

Since 2016, the value of investments in financial products that claim to abide by environmental, social and governance (ESG) rules has...

Engineers at Drexel University have made a breakthrough they say takes lithium-sulfur batteries closer to commercial use by leveraging a...

New research from the University of Georgia has shown for the first time that compounds used to fight fungal diseases in plants are...

Droughts occurring at the same time across different regions of the planet could place an unprecedented strain on the global agricultural...

AdOM Advanced Optical Technologies and Israel’s Sheba Medical Center have launched the world’s largest study for the detection of COVID-19..

A first-of-its-kind 3D-printed spinal cord tissue implant, made from the patient’s own cells, could make the dream of restoring the...

A dramatic video serves as a memorial to a star-crossed satellite that lived fast and died very young.

Advances in satellite technology have revealed that the world's glaciers contain significantly less ice than previously thought.

Reno-based Valkyrie Systems Aerospace has received a research grant from the US Air Force to further develop its remarkable HoverJet...

France and the European Union (EU) are investigating why a massive swarm of dead fish was released by a huge trawler in the Atlantic Ocean..

Technology to hide a ship’s location previously available only to the world’s militaries is spreading fast through the global maritime...

A Brooklyn-based Earth-observing company called Near Space Labs is making images of the US available at an ultra-high, 10-centimeter...

Floods have always been by far the most widespread and costliest weather disaster in the US, and they have only gotten worse as climate...

A French brewer has started using algae with a naturally-occurring pigment to turn their beer blue.

In 2013, a team led by Steven Newmaster, a botanist at the University of Guelph (UG), took a hard look at popular herbal products such as...

A group of volunteer students headed by a professor in the east Japan prefecture of Chiba has created a craft beer with a method to...

Using a novel polymerization process, MIT chemical engineers have created a new material that is stronger than steel and as light as...