Patches of the sun's surface often show strong magnetic fields. These fields can emerge within a matter of hours, and can ...

Heat shields are designed to protect the surface and cargo of a spacecraft as it enters an atmosphere. Aerospace engineers in The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois ...

An international research team used multiple global agroeconomic models and found that climate mitigation consistent with the 1.5 °C target could raise global hunger risk in 2050 by 17% (56 million ...

A drug to treat Parkinson's disease can be made from waste plastic bottles using a pioneering method, a study shows. The approach harnesses the power of bacteria to transform post-consumer plastic ...

A study led by the University of Oxford has identified a new type of planet beyond our solar system—one that stores large amounts of sulfur deep within a permanent ocean of magma. The findings have ...

The future of one of Antarctica's most iconic glaciers could be far more dramatic than scientists previously thought. Using ...

Astronomers have employed the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) to investigate a peculiar pulsar wind nebula known as ...

Birds that live and breed in vegetated coastal areas, such as dunes and small islands, not only build nests but ...

Neutrinos are extremely lightweight and electrically neutral particles that rarely interact with ordinary matter. Due to ...

The findings of a new paper show governance and preparedness rather than hazard magnitude determine whether avalanches become ...

Pesticides used in pet flea treatments occur widely in Welsh rivers and were detected in over three quarters of river water ...

Billions of mussels scorched and baby birds dropping from sweltering nests: North America's 2021 heat wave caused a cascade ...