Microplastics are tiny, nearly indestructible fragments shed from everyday plastic products.

New research suggests that there might be other ways to generate solar energy than just trying to make individual solar cells super-efficient.

Researchers at the University of Toronto and Sinai Health have created a new platform to identify proteins that can be co-opted to control the stability of other proteins — a new but largely unrealized approach to the treatment of disease.

Reduced snow cover and shifting vegetation patterns in the Alps, both driven by climate change, are having major combined impacts on biodiversity and functioning of ecosystems in the high mountains, according to new research published today.

A global wave of infections caused by fungi growing drug-resistant has the medical community issuing precautions on how to protect yourself.

Namibia's legendary fairy circles are mysterious, circular, bald patches in the dry grasslands on the edge of the Namib Desert.

When plastic ends up in the ocean, it gradually weathers and disintegrates into small particles. 

Claims that climate change is natural are inconsistent with new oceanic temperature trends, signal associated with human activities.

Scientists have for the first time created a giant quantum vortex to mimic a black hole in superfluid helium that has allowed them to see in greater detail how analogue black holes behave and interact with their surroundings.

Texans have long endured scorching summer temperatures, so a global warming increase of about 3 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 Celsius) might not sound like much to worry about.