China just turned sunlight, seawater, and nanomaterials into a boron-harvesting machine. It could deliver resources for ...

For the first time, scientists have made a clear X-ray detection of chlorine and potassium in the wreckage of a star using ...

Looking out of the Fendouzhe submersible, more than nine kilometres below the ocean surface, Mengran Du knew she was seeing ...

The Earth Rover Program today launches globally, introducing “soilsmology”—a novel application of seismology that opens ...

Electrons can be elusive, but Cornell researchers using a new computational method can now account for where they go—or don't ...

UCSB research offers a new perspective on how carbon is stored in the deep ocean and what it could mean for maintaining Earth ...

SQUIRE aims to detect exotic spin-dependent interactions using quantum sensors deployed in space, where speed and ...

Glaciers are flush with microbial life. But, as climate change speeds glacial melting, scientists rush to establish microbial ...

Surface-bound gels may have offered the structure and chemistry needed for life to take hold on Earth—and possibly elsewhere.

The Earth Rover Program launches globally today (World Soil Day), unveiling "soilsmology", which promises greatly to improve ...

Earth and planetary sciences professor Andrew Fisher will lead hydrogeology simulations to study how water, heat, and ...

Researchers find that cosmic dust acts as a catalyst, helping simple space gases form key molecules that may jump-start ...