For most young people, learning about social and political issues doesn't start with a textbook. It starts with a phone.

Cape Town, in South Africa, is famous for its dramatic mountains and coastline, but its greatest treasure lies in the plants ...

A new study shows that during the last two deglaciations, i.e., the transition from an ice age to the warm interglacial periods, meltwater from the Antarctic ice sheet intensified stratification in ...

The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has launched a novel robotic platform to rapidly analyze plant root systems as they grow, yielding AI-ready data to accelerate the development ...

In 2024, 51% of families read aloud to their very young children, while 37% read aloud to their kids between the ages of 6 and 8 years old.

A research team from the High Magnetic Field Laboratory of the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of ...

To lower agricultural emissions, policymakers and communities first need to pinpoint the sources—not just by country but crop ...

Environmental pollutant analysis typically requires complex sample pretreatment steps such as filtration, separation, and ...

Controlled manipulation of fibers that are as thin as or even thinner than human hair is a real challenge. Despite technological development, the precise and reversible change of the microfibers' ...

The next-generation spacesuit for NASA's Artemis III mission continues to advance by passing a contractor-led technical ...

A new crew rocketed toward the International Space Station on Friday to replace the astronauts who returned to Earth early in ...

Gradually increasing the price of fossil fuels is considered a key element of effective climate policy—and yet it remains the subject of bitter controversy. In a new book, experts from the Potsdam ...