If dangling from a rope inside a melting glacier is your idea of a vacation, then come with us to Alaska's Wrangell-St. Elias
The first 3D image of a microscopic crack spreading through metal could prevent the failure all sorts of things, like bridges—and your dental implants.
The medical world has been trying to cure color blindness for centuries. Then a glass scientist figured it out. By accident.
The massive project has provided cheap electricity for generations and become a beacon of what's possible. A new plan wants to add solar power to hyrdoelectric legend.
Hurricane Harvey swamped much of Houston in 2017, causing more damage than all other US hurricanes except Katrina. But now the city is authorizing construction in zones at high risk for flooding.
Residents and municipalities on the Seneca Lake shoreline began removing debris Wednesday, a day after extreme rainfall triggered severe floods.
Researchers are analysing material on which early Disney cartoons were inked to find best way to save and store the animations
Researchers have figured out how to see through flames: it just takes blue LED theater lights, a camera filter, and a research facility where you can light test buildings on fire, according to new research published in the journal Fire Technology.
Was Darwin inspired by the tropical wildlife of his travels to discover natural selection? Actually, pigeons, worms and barnacles were far more prominent in his thinking.
Global Health Program veterinarian Dr. Marc Valitutto traveled to the Save Vietnam’s Wildlife center in Cuc Phuong National Park, where hundreds of confiscated pangolins are received each year for rehabilitation and hopeful reintroduction back into the wild.
I've been meaning to do this for ages! I write my own meal plans every week (or at least as often as I can!) but until now I hadn't got around to setting it up
Large casinos, hotels, shopping malls and markets flourish in Southeast Asia’s Golden Triangle — the area where Thailand, Laos, and Myanmar converge. These gambling halls and markets, known to be centers of prostitution and drug trafficking, have now emerged as hubs of wildlife trade. From tiger skin and bones to skulls, forelegs and gall bladder […]
Mosquitos kill more humans every year than any other animal on the planet and conventional methods to reduce mosquito-borne illnesses haven’t worked as well as many hoped. So we’ve been hard at work since receiving this USAID grant six months ago to reduce Zika incidence and related threats to public health. Our partners at the joint FAO/IAEA […]
These horny buggers are actually here to help us fight the spread of disease
This Encyclopedia Britannica science list features 5 fascinating parasitic plants.
Those drips and dribbles collect a lot of dust, so conservator Chris Stavroudis is cleaning decades of accumulated grime off Pollock's Number 1, 1949 at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Mosquitos kill more humans every year than any other animal on the planet and conventional methods to reduce mosquito-borne illnesses haven’t worked as well as many hoped. So we’ve been hard at work since receiving this USAID grant six months ago to reduce Zika incidence and related threats to public health. Our partners at the joint FAO/IAEA […]
Plastic degrades more quickly than many other materials. So how can we ensure that works made from plastic remain in prime condition?
Every twist, turn and jump relies on a mastery of complex physical forces
We had the distinct honor of serving on the expert panel of judges for the prestigious International Drones and Robotics for Good Awards in Dubai for 2 years. It was there that we first came across the path-breaking work of the Insect Pest Control Laboratory (IPCL) of the Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in […]
The "roads" on this agar-gel map of the U.S. may not quite mirror reality, but they could help scientists build more-robust networks in the future.
Mosquitos kill more humans every year than any other animal on the planet and conventional methods to reduce mosquito-borne illnesses haven’t worked as well as many hoped. So we’ve been hard at work since receiving this USAID grant six months ago to reduce Zika incidence and related threats to public health. Our partners at the joint FAO/IAEA […]
Established in 1979, we are the only artist-founded museum in Los Angeles. We are dedicated to collecting and exhibiting contemporary art.
Celebrations throughout next year will aim to boost public awareness of chemistry
With the help of venture capital funding and new technologies, a cadre of companies want to commercialize fusion energy in the next 20 years
Developing economies around the world are investing in hydropower.
As it grows, slime mold can keep track of where it’s been, it can solve mazes in search of food, and it can even be trained to take risks in the name of a big payoff. How exactly? We visited the Swarm Lab at the New Jersey Institute of Technology to find out.
The suit is made of 21 layers of various plastics, and curators some of them - along with other plastic exhibits the museum holds, are beginning to rot.
As city temperatures rise, with a negative impact on health, councils are coming up with some innovative solutions
The Ussurian tube-nosed bat of Japan joins the polar bear as the only animals known to hibernate in snow.
A new technique is helping turn dogs at one Kenyan port into super-sniffers.
“It takes a lot of patience.”
By blocking wavelengths, glasses create a new world complete with grass, traffic lights.
From the fast food industry to Silicon Valley, numerous executives use the products they create differently than we do.
Cars fell hundreds of feet along with tonnes of twisted steel and concrete debris into a river, railroad tracks and an industrial zone below when the Morandi bridge gave way at 11.30am in Genoa.
