A new technique enables the use of fatty acids—for example, those found in cooking oil from fast-food restaurants—to dissolve ...

Forecasters are confident it's a particularly bad water year for the Colorado River, worrying some about a likely return to ...

NASA budget proposal would slash around US$6 billion (£4.4 billion) in funding. This is a huge reduction, amounting to around ...

Are the risks of hazardous chemicals being determined appropriately? In certain cases, apparently not, according to a study ...

Killing carnivores to protect livestock, wildlife and people is an emotive and controversial issue that can cause community ...

Groups of social animals, including humans, can make complex decisions without a single central leader. Those choices aren't always made by the majority, however.

Research into chemical discovery, testing optimization and analysis can be a labor-intensive and time-consuming process. With ...

For 200 years, we've been warned of unchecked population growth and how it leads to environmental instability. On the other ...

Hidden beneath the Antarctic ice lies a system of lakes and watercourses. A research team, including ETH researchers, has for ...

Human emissions of greenhouse gases have caused rapid global warming. This has made high-impact, heat extreme events around ...

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. That truism, now known as the "Sagan standard" after science ...