A team of international researchers plan to turn the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into rock by permanently injecting it beneath the Earth’s ocean floor through an ambitious, new research partnership announced today by the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS) at the University of Victoria.

Earlier this month, four people with their lives hanging in the balance were hoisted to safety after finding refuge on a nearby NOAA weather buoy when their vessel took on too much water.

Water quality in the Little Arkansas River and in the Equus Beds aquifer has not substantially changed since 2001, according to a new study by the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the city of Wichita, Kansas.

An old Moon rose this morning, its waning sunlit crescent shining just above the eastern horizon before sunrise.

Researchers have developed a tiny nanolaser that can function inside of living tissues without harming them. 

Hidden deep in a basement at Stanford stands a 10-meter-tall tube, wrapped in a metal cage and draped in wires.

Ammonia, the primary ingredient in nitrogen-based fertilizers, has helped feed the world since World War I.

Antibiotics save countless lives each year from harmful bacterial infections — but the community of beneficial bacteria that live in human intestines, known as the microbiome, frequently suffers collateral damage.

Whatever our hands do—reaching, grabbing or manipulating objects—it always appears simple. 

Gallium nitride, a semiconductor that revolutionized energy-efficient LED lighting, could also transform electronics and wireless communication, thanks to a discovery made by Cornell researchers.