Mayas utilized market-based economics

More than 500 years ago in the midwestern Guatemalan highlands, Maya people bought and sold goods…

Cyclone researchers: Warming climate means more and stronger Atlantic tropical storms

Tropical cyclone researchers report a warming climate could increase the number of tropical cyclones and their…

The brain's ability to perceive space expands like the universe

Scientists have discovered that time spent exploring an environment causes neural representations to grow in surprising…

Antibiotic residues in water a threat to human health

Antibiotic residues in wastewater and wastewater treatment plants in the regions around China and India risk…

How climate change impacts the Indian Ocean dipole, leading to severe droughts and floods

Researchers now have a much better understanding of how climate change can impact and cause sea…

Specific outdoor air pollutants linked to asthma attacks in urban children

Moderate levels of two outdoor air pollutants, ozone and fine particulate matter, are associated with non-viral…

New type of entanglement lets scientists 'see' inside nuclei

Nuclear physicists have found a new way to use the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) to…

Climate risk insurance can effectively mitigate economic losses

Global warming is expected to lead to an accumulation of particularly intense hurricanes in the United…

Researchers detect fluoride in water with new simple color change test

Environmental contaminants like fluoride, lead and pesticides exist all around and even within us. While researchers…

Climate warming reduces organic carbon burial beneath oceans

An international team of scientists painstakingly gathered data from more than 50 years of seagoing scientific…