Thousands of vessels, from enormous cargo ships to much smaller fishing boats, annually traverse the waters around Alaska.

With demand for lentils growing globally and climate change driving temperatures higher, a University of Saskatchewan (USask)-led international research team has developed a model for predicting which varieties of the pulse crop are most likely to thrive in new production environments

The final frontier is getting messy. Debris -- including defunct satellites, abandoned fuel tanks, tools dropped by astronauts and fragments from satellite collisions.

After a dry summer and despite a few recent rainy days, Connecticut is experiencing an increasingly dry autumn, with areas of the state ranging from abnormally dry to extreme drought conditions.

Neurons are cells in your brain. Shaped like little stars, they flicker and fire off signals to each other.

For smallholder farmers living in hot and arid regions, getting fresh crops to market and selling them at the best price is a balancing act.

A new system developed by chemical engineers at MIT could provide a way of continuously removing carbon dioxide from a stream of waste gases, or even from the air.

Just as alloys make steel stronger, research allies make mineral science better.

For the second year in a row, fires have been widespread and persistent in the South American country.

Mayday.ai applies artificial intelligence to NOAA satellite imagery to detect natural disasters, starting with wildfires.