NASA-NOAA satellite finds wind shear pushing on Tropical Storm Gabrielle

NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite passed over the eastern Atlantic Ocean and infrared data revealed that the…

Study offers new insights on impacts of crop trading in China

Feeding the world’s growing population is one of the great challenges of the 21st century. This…

Using nature to produce a revolutionary optical material

An international team of researchers has reported a new way to safeguard drones, surveillance cameras and…

It's crunch time for California's plan to phase out single-use plastics by 2030

With pressure mounting to address the state’s recycling crisis, California lawmakers are close to deciding on…

Team behind world's first black hole image wins 'Oscar of science'

The 347 scientists who collaborated to produce the world’s first image of a black hole were…

Subsea science observatory vanishes from German bay

A German research organization is searching, so far in vain, for an underwater environmental monitoring station…

Researchers uncover role of earthquake motions in triggering a 'surprise' tsunami

In newly published research, an international team of geologists, geophysicists, and mathematicians show how coupled computer…

Climate change could bring short-term gain, long-term pain for loggerhead turtles

An overwhelming scientific consensus affirms that for thousands of species across the globe, climate change is…

SPEECHLESS, SCREAM and stomata development in plant leaves

Plants constantly make trade-offs in their decisions: more light means more opportunity for photosynthesis, but then…

The state of China's climate in 2018: More extreme events, but less loss

In order to provide information on climate features, meteorological disasters and climate impacts to the public…