Plastics of the future should, ideally for the health of the planet and our own bodies, be composed of biodegradable and safe materials.

A new report from the National Toxicology Program (NTP) suggests that traffic-related air pollution increases a pregnant woman’s risk for dangerous increases in blood pressure, known as hypertension.

Humankind will need to harness carbon capture and storage technologies to help keep global warming to 2 degrees C or less. 

An international team of geoscientists led by Caltech has used fiber optic communications cables stationed at the bottom of the North Sea as a giant seismic network, tracking both earthquakes and ocean waves.

Can’t remember something? Try waiting until later in the day. 

It’s not just oranges that grow in Florida. Carambola, or star fruit as most in the United States call it, is gaining popularity. 

Using old tree rings and archival documents, historians and climate scientists have detailed an extreme cold period in Scotland in the 1690s that caused immense suffering. 

Soil moisture is easy to see when your favorite Little Leaguer slides into second base the day after a big summer storm. 

Cornell geologists, examining the desolate Vavilov ice cap on the northern fringe of Siberia in the Arctic Circle, have for the first time observed the rapid ice loss from an improbable new river of ice, according to new work in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

NYU Tandon Applied Physics Professor Emeritus Edward Wolf discovered that the principles of phase transitions correctly identified the destructive power released by hurricanes. This means warmer water temperatures will increase the destructive power of hurricanes significantly more than meteorologists expect.