Rapid climate change is prompting adaptation to threats such as tropical cyclones, wildfires, and droughts—but relatively trivial adaptation actions may ...

Virtue is a normative concept comprising a set of moral and social codes acceptable to society. Historically, in the West, ...

Swimming in schools makes fish surprisingly stealthy underwater, with a group able to sound like a single fish.Credit: Johns Hopkins ...

Remote work could cut hundreds of millions of tons of carbon emissions from car travel – but at the cost ...

Images  //  Video  Images  //  Video  New chemistries for batteries, semiconductors and more could be easier to manufacture, thanks to ...

Common “hard” coastal defenses, like concrete sea walls, might struggle to keep up with increasing climate risks. A new study ...

A research group in Japan has discovered that writing down one's reaction to a negative incident on a piece of paper ...

Helping robots make a better first impression

A collaborated research team led by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and Tsinghua University has theoretically ...

Peregrine falcon populations across North America are heavily contaminated with harmful flame retardants–including those that have been phased out for ...