Radioactive materials are found naturally in the Earth. But even so, saying an area is radioactive can conjure up images of ...

In a nutshell New research challenges the long-held belief that human evolution required improbable “lucky breaks,” ...

Key Points Anne Partmann, Refining Environmental Supervisor at the Martinez Renewables facility, combines her passion for ...

How did Earth transform from a hostile, acidic ocean world to one that nurtured life? Scientists at Yale and in Singapore ...

Swiss aviation pioneer Bertrand Piccard is developing a plane powered by liquid hydrogen after a much-hyped flight in 2015 ...

developed and issued two guiding documents to serve as roadmaps for this effort: the 2022 National Strategy for the Arctic ...

In addition to swearing in Dr. Mike Sfraga as the United States’ first Ambassador-at-Large for the Arctic Region, the State ...

A perfectly preserved ancient tree fossil offered scientists an unprecedented view into a moment 42,000 years ago when the Earth’s magnetic field went haywire. The compelling 2021 study tells the ...

Gaining insight could help understand the timing and process of life's emergence. A research team led by a Rutgers-New ...

A new study explores how complex chemical mixtures change under shifting environmental conditions, shedding light on the ...

In the race to meet the United Nations' 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Earth observation (EO) satellite data is ...

The SETI Institute awarded the first Frank Drake Postdoctoral Fellowship to Dr. Anastasia Yanchilina. Yanchilina will focus ...