Growing consumption of energy and fossil fuels over four decades did not play a significant role in increasing life expectancy across 70 countries.

Night lights not only speak to where we live, but how.

The study indicates that some bivalve species, including blue mussel, are suitable as indicator species to monitor microplastics in the Nordic marine environment.

New scientific name honors Dr. Joan Browder for many years of service.

NOAA develops real-time system to aid ships coming to port.

The research described in this article has been published on a preprint server but has not yet been peer-reviewed by scientific or medical experts.

Astronomers obtained the first resolved image of disturbed gaseous clouds in a galaxy 11 billion light-years away by using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA).

There is no longer a need to guess what ocean temperatures were like in the remote tropical Pacific hundreds of years ago. The ancient coral that lived there know all.

If circulation of deep waters in the Atlantic stops or slows due to climate change, it could cause cooling in northern North America and Europe – a scenario that has occurred during past cold glacial periods.

Liang Qi, a professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Michigan, answered questions about his group’s new paper in npj Computational Materials.