Scientists enhance recyclability of post-consumer plastic

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Institute for Cooperative Upcycling of Plastics (iCOUP) have…

Is it safe? Why some animals fear using wildlife crossings

The recent capture and euthanizing of Los Angeles’s well-known mountain lion P-22, whose numerous injuries were…

Construction begins on NASA's next-generation asteroid hunter

A space telescope designed to search for the hardest-to-find asteroids and comets that stray into Earth’s…

Mapping the 'landscape of fear' of sea turtles in the Bahamas

Many sea turtles live their adult lives in predator-free environments due to overfishing of their main…

California county sees highest number of monarch butterflies in more than 20 years

There’s some hope fluttering around San Luis Obispo County this holiday season. Click here…

As NASA's Mars InSight mission comes to an end, JPL engineers say farewell to its twin

Pranay Mishra reached down to the floor of his workplace and scooped a handful of what…

Making a salad might be getting more expensive. Could climate change be to blame?

In his nearly four decades of growing lettuce, spinach, kale and other leafy greens in California…

New activity trackers for dolphin conservation

Just like a smartwatch can tell its wearer how many calories they consume during exercise, data…

Uneven wetting under climate change is causing diverse variations in the thawing of frozen ground on the Tibetan Plateau

The Tibetan Plateau has experienced prominent warming and wetting since the mid-1990s that has altered the…

Researchers show a new way to induce useful defects using invisible material properties

Much of modern electronic and computing technology is based on one idea: Add chemical impurities, or…