Military leaders often enter conflicts believing they can control their size, duration and intensity. A new statistical analysis led by...

Tropical forests are often treated as a single planetary machine for absorbing carbon, but a new satellite-based analysis suggests that...

A new study is turning ordinary drone flights into a high-tech early-warning system for aging bridges, combining aerial imagery with...

MXenes, a family of atomically thin materials known for combining high electrical conductivity with chemically active surfaces, may soon become...

A new class of living medicine could one day help people with diabetes control blood glucose without injections, implanted devices...

Pyrogallol, a naturally occurring chemical with applications ranging from photography and dye production to pharmaceuticals and metal processing, may deserve...

Forests are often portrayed as collections of distinct species, each with a relatively fixed set of biological characteristics. But a...

A new study in Nature is challenging a conclusion that has become increasingly common across science and technology: that disruptive...

Rice University researchers have shown that wrinkles only a few atoms wide can transform graphene from a nearly flat sheet...

A debate over whether modern science and technology are becoming less disruptive has entered a new phase, with researchers arguing...