Traces of black carbon in snow can alter the light reaching plants, potentially shifting growth patterns and reshaping ...

Scientists are sharpening their warnings that the cloud hanging over someone’s vape is not harmless mist but a chemically active aerosol that can injure bystanders’ lungs. New laboratory work suggests ...

Soot, road salt and other pollutants don’t just dirty snow — they can alter sunlight and affect plant growth beneath it, researchers say.

A long-standing mystery in spintronics has just been shaken up. A strange electrical effect called unusual magnetoresistance shows up almost everywhere scientists look—even in systems where the ...

Utrecht University researchers Rodolfo Subert and Marjolein Dijkstra show in their latest study that complex three-dimensional networks in materials can emerge from nothing more than particle shape.

A study reveals random exploration outperforms focused analysis—shedding scientific light on non-ordinary ways of knowing.

Scientists and medical experts are countering climate denialism, vaccine scepticism and wellness pseudoscience on social ...

Astronomers had decent guesses about how these peanut-shaped asteroids formed but couldn’t get the physics to work—until now.

Astronomers have puzzled for years over a strange pattern in the outer solar system. A surprising number of icy bodies far beyond Neptune resemble snowmen, made of two rounded lobes stuck together.

People who switch to a fully unprocessed diet don’t just eat differently—they eat smarter. Research from the University of Bristol shows that when people avoid ultra-processed foods, they naturally ...

To paraphrase what a prominent winemaker friend once told me, “The art of winemaking is to harness a wine’s complex components into a seamless, harmonious expression where none dominates the other.

NASA gears up for a historic lunar flyby, AI gives stroke patients hope, and researchers discover the oldest known cave art What’s on the road to the launch of NASA’s Artemis II, how scientists are ...