Mercury is a toxic heavy metal that can exist stably as a gas, with high volatility and global distribution in...

New MBARI research on a field of pockmarks—large, circular depressions on the seafloor—offshore of Central California has revealed that powerful...

Mobile phones have become invaluable for receiving emergency alerts such as weather warnings, evacuation notices and notifications about missing persons....

Deposits of designated critical minerals needed to transition the world’s energy systems away from fossil fuels may, ironically enough, be...

Few things in nature are as predictable as ocean tides. Driven by the Moon’s and Sun’s gravitational pull, these persistent,...

The growth, development, and functioning of plants in various environments depend on multiple elements. However, our understanding of how the...

Professor Jonghun Kam and Kwang-Hun Lee, a PhD student, from the Division of Environmental Science and Engineering at Pohang University...

Groundbreaking research has provided new insight into the tectonic plate shifts that create some of the Earth’s largest earthquakes and...

For hundreds of years, the whitespotted eagle ray (Aetobatus narinari) has been considered the only inshore stingray species in Bermuda,...

Compartments of consistently sized, tightly packed microspheres are what makes some brown algae shimmer like opal. The Kobe University discovery...