Nuclear war would be more devastating for Earth's climate than cold war predictions, even with fewer weapons

Christopher Nolan’s biopic of J. Robert Oppenheimer has revived morbid curiosity in the destructive power of…

Climate change contributes to violence against children. Here's how

Every day of the northern hemisphere’s summer in 2023 seems to bring a calamitous headline about…

Nature's kitchen: How a chemical reaction used by cooks helped create life on Earth

A chemical process used in the browning of food to give it its distinct smell and…

My Climate View provides farmers insights into future climate based on location and commodity

It’s around this time of year that Australian cherry growers look for cooler days. …

An ancient grain unlocks genetic secrets for making bread wheat more resilient

Building on the Middle East’s reputation as one of the historical birthplaces of cereal crop domestication,…

Researchers prefer same-gender co-authors, study confirms

Researchers are more likely to pen scientific papers with co-authors of the same gender, a pattern…

Experiments show methane formation in water may have warmed early Earth

A team of microbiologists and Earth scientists affiliated with several institutions in Germany reports that it…

Nanoelectromechanical resonators based on hafnia–zirconia–alumina superlattices with gigahertz spectrum coverage

Newly developed atomic engineering techniques have opened exciting opportunities for enabling ferroelectric behavior in high-k dielectrics,…

Greenland's largest glacial floating ice declined 42% due to global warming, scientists determine

Greenland’s ice sheet has been melting at an accelerated rate over recent decades, which may have…

Eclipsing binary detected in the open cluster NGC 2232

Using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), European astronomers have discovered an eclipsing binary in the…