Three species picked their favorite human targets based on skin odor and bacteria. The findings could help design better ...

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To cut their wastes to nearly zero, circular cities are launching projects to repair, reuse and recycle virtually everything.

Some hydrogels are made of natural polymers. Jell-O is a good example. It contains a natural polymer called gelatin. Other ...

When water droplets take on an electric charge, rain can become corrosive and start to eat through bridges, cars and more, ...

This five-story-tall waterfall in Antarctica gets its blood-red color from the same reaction that creates rust.

Dark matter isn’t the universe’s only “missing” matter. Distant bursts of radio waves have now turned up vast, faint gas ...

Leaves of the Arizona honeysweet can turn on evaporative cooling to keep the plant up to 13 degrees C (23 degrees F) cooler than the surrounding air.

The wild world is full of roars, whoops and songs. Scientists are using such sounds to guide efforts to help save species at ...

Researchers recently learned that bees can swim. New findings show that bees paddle toward shade and dark to reach shore.