Mercury is extraordinarily toxic, but it becomes especially dangerous when transformed into methylmercury—a form so harmful ...

A super typhoon sweeping towards the Philippines on Saturday was intensifying and could have a "potentially catastrophic" ...

The rod-shaped tuberculosis (TB) bacterium, which the World Health Organization has once again ranked as the top infectious ...

No one knows exactly when or where an earthquake will strike. But computer simulations are helping scientists and engineers ...

Recent estimates indicate that deadly antibiotic-resistant infections will rapidly escalate over the next quarter century.

A team of physicists at ETH Zürich has built the first-ever working mechanical qubit. In their paper published in the journal ...

An international team of researchers has achieved an unprecedented milestone: the creation of mouse stem cells capable of ...

Cutting back on animal protein in our diets can save on resources and greenhouse gas emissions. But convincing meat-loving ...

An international team of scientists using observations from NASA-German satellites found evidence that Earth's total amount ...

Physicists have been trying to design fusion reactors, technologies that can generate energy via nuclear fusion processes, ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered an instance of two galaxies aligned in a way where their gravity acts as ...

Alongside carbon dioxide, methane is a key driver of global warming. To detect and monitor the climate pollutants in the ...