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 ...

Frozen food worldwide is still kept at −18°C (0°F). Raising that by just three degrees could avoid 17 million tons of emissions a year, and an 18-month study found most foods stay safe and tasty. Sit ...

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.

A new ultra-black wool could make it desirable to be a black sheep. The specially dyed wool could be a low-cost, biodegradable material for producing potable water from saltwater using only sunlight.

Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. What humans have wrought is heavy. In a new study, researchers calculated the weight of more than 600 million buildings in cities across the world and came up ...