The same proteins that keep a frozen pint smooth also make its fat hard to recover. A research team found an inexpensive way around the problem.

In a bid to cool people, not rooms, engineers made a printable fabric that turns body motion into electrical signals that ...

Hobbled by a lack of data, scientists have been unable to track biodiversity across much of the planet. A new initiative ...

Kids leave diapers behind nearly a year later than they did in the 1950s. With 300,000 disposable diapers tossed every minute ...

Raising that by just three degrees could avoid 17 million tons of emissions a year, and an 18-month study found most foods ...

Flying behind commercial jets, a team pinpointed the exact combination of fuel and engine technology that cuts both soot and the contrails warming the planet.

A new study finds that stopping logging and wildfires could do more for rainforest wildlife than halting deforestation—and it costs far less than restoration.

Scientists expected their artificial floating wetland to help only after cleaning the water. Instead, greenhouse gas emissions dropped months earlier, and nobody is sure exactly why.

Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. Solar power is on the rise around the world as the cost of solar panels goes down and societal acceptance of the technology rises. The world added ...

When Mark Stoeckle went fishing in New York City’s East River, he caught a lot more than he was expecting. The scientist from The Rockefeller University was focused on testing whether DNA floating in ...

Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. Most people think climate change will primarily affect other people, a new analysis of previously published research reveals. The findings illustrate a ...

With small changes to cellular machinery, researchers may have begun to transform the relationship between plants and the soil. Their new work could help to develop crops that can collaborate with ...