The millimeter-thick paperboard behaves just like plastic; it's strong, transparent, shapeable—and can hold boiling water.

When researchers looked at the trade-off between reducing dependence on imported fossil fuels and increasing dependence on ...

the publisher Elsevier has launched a new aca­demic journal titled Anthropocene and the IUGS convened a group of scholars to decide by 2016 whether to officially declare that the Holocene is ...

Lacking vegetation, the birds populating the canals of the Netherlands' capital use refuse to build their nests; a ...

Farmlands in the Middle East and East Africa contains some of the world’s highest levels of toxic metals in their soil, ...

New research led by Swansea University will help scientists predict where and when animals will move, a task which is becoming more urgent, given the current rapid pace of global change.

"One catastrophic event could wipe them out entirely." Scientists issue warning over threats facing newly discovered ...

Fossilized footprints and tracks dating back 50 million years ago discovered at the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument could provide new insight into how prehistoric animals lived in Oregon. The ...

An international collaboration between four scientists from Mainz, Valencia, Madrid, and Zurich has published new research in ...

A lot of us feel hopeless today. There’s the return of energy dominance as a federal goal, which places oil, gas and coal extraction above all other uses.

The United Nations reports that only 17% of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are on track to be achieved by 2030. As ...

The researchers found that popular twenty-first-century papers on topics such as artificial intelligence (AI), scientific software and methods to improve the quality of research dominate today’s ...