The average life span for Americans hovered around 40 years for the first 100 years of the nation's existence. But after 1880 ...

Virtual fences could make managing grazing livestock on farms more flexible and more efficient while improving animal welfare ...

Shielding astronauts from the deadly radiation they face is a central challenge for any designer of a deep-space crewed ...

As the adoption of electric vehicles continues to grow, so does the need for the safe and permanent storage of battery ...

Climate change threatens many plant and animal species not only when their habitats disappear as climatic conditions change, ...

More than half a century ago, Sir Roger Penrose envisioned a scenario in which energy could be extracted from a black hole ...

Imagine trying to trap a miniature star inside a machine without letting it touch the walls or burn itself out. This is the ...

The molecular machinery that normally builds proteins inside cells has now taken on a new role as a "switch." A research team ...

Fast identification of bacteria is important in health care, food safety, environmental monitoring and infection control. One ...

Across a narrow watershed in Asakura, a rural city in Fukuoka Prefecture, centuries-old stone channels still guide water ...

A research team led by Professor Chaogu Zheng from the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), in ...

The world's largest whale graveyard has been discovered at the bottom of the Indian Ocean by Chinese scientists, who found ...