Lichens are way younger than scientists thought

You’ve probably seen a lichen, even if you didn’t realize it. If you’ve ever meandered through…

NASA warned of safety risks in delayed private crew launches

NASA auditors warn the space agency faces “significant safety and technical challenges” that need to be…

Americans maintain high levels of trust in science

A new report analyzing decades of public opinion surveys reveals that the public’s trust in scientists…

Going with the floe: Sea ice movements trace dynamics transforming the new Arctic

Climate change is accomplishing what centuries of exploration could not: opening the fabled Northwest Passage, a…

New moon-seeking sensor aims to improve earth observations

A new instrument with its eye on the Moon is taking off aboard a high-altitude NASA…

Researchers explore how citizens can become agents of environmental change

If you like to walk in the woods, raft a river, dig in a garden or…

Study shows some aquatic plants depend on the landscape for photosynthesis

ASU researchers found that not only are freshwater aquatic plants affected by climate, they are also…

Storing energy in hydrogen 20 times more effective using platinum-nickel catalyst

Catalysts accelerate chemical reactions, but the widely used metal platinum is scarce and expensive. Researchers at…

Tool for studying decision-making is ineffective for training better behavior

A two-step task commonly used to study people’s decision-making behaviors does not appear to be effective…

Physicists irreversibly split photons by freezing them in a Bose-Einstein condensate

Light can be directed in different directions, usually also back the same way. Physicists from the…