A method to detect the presence of the coronavirus in exhaled breath has been developed jointly by Tohoku University here in Sendai and...

If you're unable to get a cell phone signal when you walk your dog around the block, this will really make your blood boil: NASA is...

The Japanese government plans to release into the sea treated radioactive water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant crippled...

Giraffe populations have declined by around 40 per cent since 1985, with fewer than 100,000 adults left in the wild.

Joint research conducted by Kansai Paint Co. and Nagasaki University has found shikkui plaster, a traditional Japanese building material...

Australia's Great Barrier Reef has lost half of its coral population "across virtually all species" since the 1990s, according to a new...

Renewable energy, led by solar power, could make up 80% of the growth in electricity generation over the next decade.

Through a simple process of heating and cooling, New York University (NYU) researchers have created a new crystal form of deltamethrin...

The expansion of intensive farming is jeopardizing the goals of the Paris Agreement to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

A government-sponsored clinical trial testing an antibody treatment made by the drug company Eli Lilly has been paused because of a...

Drugmaker Johnson & Johnson said Monday it has paused the advanced clinical trial of its experimental coronavirus vaccine because of an...

The ozone hole that typically grows over the Antarctic each September and October has become one of the largest and deepest in recent...

Lois Parshley of National Geographic suggested that, instead of contact tracing, the White House should employ viral genome sequencing to...

Mya Le Thai, who in 2016 was a Ph.D candidate at the University of California at Irvine, created a nanowire alternative to lithium-ion...

Regeneron chief executive Leonard Schleifer said President Donald Trump's treatment with the company's experimental antibody cocktail is...

Argentina formally became the first country in the world to approve the use of drought-resistant genetically modified (GMO) wheat...

Moles are some of the most peculiar animals out there. Largely seen as pests due to their intricate tunnel systems, moles are found on...

Mathematical physicist Roger Penrose of Oxford University, winner of the 2020 Noel Prize in Physics, has claimed that before the Big Bang...

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was jointly awarded on Wednesday to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna for the development of a...

Three physicists won this year’s Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for discoveries related to black holes.

Significant progress has been made in accelerating the development of banana varieties with resistance to the Fusarium fungus, which...

Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice were jointly honored for their “decisive contribution to the fight against...

THAILAND NOW has been set up by the country’s public and private sectors with support from Thailand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a...

The Phase I/II clinical trial for the COVID-19 vaccine AZD1222 has resumed in Japan after discussion with the Japanese Pharmaceuticals...