A toxic chemical in marine ecosystems turns out to play a beneficial role

Advocates of healthy eating often extol the benefits of adding antioxidants to one’s diet. These compounds…

New model describes phase separation that spoils antibody solutions

A new mathematical model describes how highly concentrated antibody solutions separate into different phases, similar to…

Microsoft joins project on ethical artificial intelligence

Microsoft on Monday announced a $1 billion investment in an OpenAI ethical artificial intelligence project backed…

India monsoons below 'normal' baseline amid water crisis

India’s weather agency said Monday it was set to cut estimates for average monsoon rainfall after…

Astronomers decode Milky Way's violent birth

The Milky Way gobbled up a galaxy one quarter of its mass 10 billion years ago…

NASA sees outside winds affecting new tropical Eastern Pacific depression

A new tropical depression formed in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, far enough away from the coast…

Mississippi River drops enough to begin closing big spillway

The Mississippi River is finally low enough again to let the Army Corps of Engineers begin…

Tracking smoke from fires to improve air quality forecasting

NASA’s DC-8 flying laboratory took to the skies on Monday to kick off a two-month investigation…

Vampire algae killer's genetic diversity poses threat to biofuels

New DNA analysis has revealed surprising genetic diversity in a bacterium that poses a persistent threat…

A torque on conventional magnetic wisdom

Physicists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have observed a magnetic phenomenon called the “anomalous…