Shutting down nuclear power could increase air pollution

A new study shows that if U.S. nuclear power plants are retired, the burning of coal,…

This elephant's self-taught banana peeling offers glimpse of elephants' broader abilities

Elephants like to eat bananas, but they don’t usually peel them first in the way humans…

Navigating the cosmos with CHARA Array

New instruments and plans for a seventh telescope at Georgia State’s CHARA Array will allow scientists…

Study finds record-breaking rates of sea-level rise along the U.S. Southeast and Gulf coasts

New study shows sea levels along the U.S. Southeast and Gulf coasts have been rapidly accelerating,…

New textile unravels warmth-trapping secrets of polar bear fur

Engineers have invented a fabric that concludes the 80-year quest to make a synthetic textile modeled…

Engineered plants produce sex perfume to trick pests and replace pesticides

Tobacco plants have been engineered to manufacture an alluring perfume of insect sex pheromones, which could…

Webb reveals never-before-seen details in Cassiopeia A

The explosion of a star is a dramatic event, but the remains the star leaves behind…

How to see the invisible: Using the dark matter distribution to test our cosmological model

Astrophysicists have measured a value for the ‘clumpiness’ of the universe’s dark matter (known to cosmologists…

Here's how a worm's embryonic cells changed its development potential

Researchers have spotted how specific proteins within the chromosomes of roundworms enable their offspring to produce…

Study sheds light on how IBD can develop

A new study could help improve personalized medicine approaches in inflammatory bowel disease by understanding how…