Eli Hanechak claims to have a patent pending on an enzyme mutation that could accelerate the breakdown of plastic waste.

Electronic textiles, such as heating pads and electric blankets, can keep the wearer warm and help ease aches and pains. However, prolonged use of these devices could possibly cause heat-related ...

For most countries around the world, sourcing energy entirely from wind, solar, geothermal, and hydropower by 2050 would ...

Information on the internet might seem like it’s there forever, but it’s only as permanent as people choose to make it. That’s apparent as the second Trump administration “floods the zone” with ...

With NIH support, JHU researchers work with communities to determine how pollutants and other environmental factors affect ...

The rapid growth of technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), combined with increasing data processing demands, is ...

The Trump administration has made strong efforts to dismantle science agencies and the data and websites used to communicate ...

Using genes borrowed from bacteria, researchers have demonstrated fish and flies can be engineered to break down methylmercury and remove it from their bodies as a less harmful gas, offering new ways ...

Enzyme designers in the David Baker lab at the University of Washington in Seattle, from left: Sam Pellock, Anna Lauko, Kiera ...

Forces in the Arctic are combining to push chilly air that usually stays near the North Pole into the United States, and also ...

While it’s unclear what research or programs, specifically, fall under Trump’s definition of DEI, the order has already set off chaos and confusion throughout the science world, as agencies like the ...

Mr. Cañas-Valle’s discovery, described in the journal Ornithology in November, may be the first documented example of ...