Kitchen sponges are among the most frequently used household items – and may also represent a previously underestimated source of microplastics.

Every year at Grand Canyon National Park, millions of visitors from all over the world stop at one of a dozen water spigots. 

Tiny particles of rubber cast off by car tires, which have long been known to harm wildlife, may also pose a risk to humans, according to a new study.

In the absence of human interference, the soil beneath the world’s forests normally exhales carbon steadily and consistently. 

The new study mapped and assessed more than 140,000 solar PV installations worldwide using satellite data.

From sizzling bacon in the kitchen to wildfire smoke in the sky, cooking and pollution release microscopic particles that affect humans' health, the air they breathe, and even weather and climate.

The plumbing systems of volcanos are vast and complex. But they aren’t consistent, even in the same volcano.

Cornell researchers have developed a new type of computing device that stores information electrically but reads it through tiny mechanical motion, an unusual approach that could open a path toward more energy-efficient hardware for artificial intelligence and scientific computing.

Nearly 69 million people in the United States speak a language other than English at home, yet weather warnings have long been issued almost exclusively in English. 

Rochester biologist Anne S. Meyer and her colleagues created “bio-stickers” that speed up plastic breakdown in marine environments.