Earth just roasted under its hottest July on record, according to scientists from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI).

Novel approach to measuring microbe activity in wetted soil leads to better understanding of vulnerability, researchers report.

Understanding why existing hydrogen fuel cell prototypes degrade can pave the way for more durable cells. 

Antarctica is in the depths of winter, yet the continent is surrounded by much less sea ice than scientists expected for this time of year. 

While past studies have linked fracking to earthquakes, scientists now say the drilling method is also a source of even small seismic tremors.

Maize roots secrete certain chemicals that affect the quality of soil. In some fields, this effect increases yields of wheat planted subsequent to maize in the same soil by more than 4%.

The largest storm in the solar system, a 10,000-mile-wide anticyclone called the Great Red Spot, has decorated Jupiter's surface for hundreds of years.

Wastewater treatment plants are undoubtedly a great achievement.

When you picture MIT doctoral students taking small PhD courses together, you probably don’t imagine them going on class field trips. But it does happen, sometimes, and one of those trips changed Andy Sun’s career.

Although many Americans dutifully deposit their plastic trash into the appropriate bins each week, many of those materials, including flexible films, multilayer materials and a lot of colored plastics, are not recyclable using conventional mechanical recycling methods.