Paul Ehrlich, who has died aged 93, was an entomologist specialising in butterflies, though he became better known as a ...

Scientists disagree whether human-made climate change or natural fluctuations are mostly to blame for worse-than-expected heat in recent years ...

There's a huge amount of clean energy locked away in ocean waves, if only we could find a way to harness more of it. A new ...

President Xi Jinping’s government is shrewdly using this moment of crisis to reimagine large-scale protein production for the ...

Breakthrough ideas often appear when you least expect them—but studies show there’s more than one way to trigger a “eureka” moment.

Global coastal sea levels are on average 1 foot higher than previously assumed, a new report finds, raising alarms the world ...

For years ‘Oumuamua remained one of the most puzzling objects ever observed in space. Its strange acceleration and lack of a visible comet tail challenged existing scientific models. Now researchers ...

Erin McGuire ran a research network that studied how to get healthy food to marginalized populations around the world.

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Curiosity-driven research has long sparked technological transformations. A century ago, curiosity about atoms led to quantum mechanics, and eventually the transistor at the heart of modern computing.

Virginia-based Jefferson Lab is leading a project to transform nuclear waste into usable electricity while also drastically reducing its radioactive life.