Plastics pose a significant waste problem: many conventional plastics do not degrade, or do so only with great difficulty.

In 1951, physicist Julian Schwinger theorized that by applying a uniform electrical field to a vacuum, electron-positron ...

The UK, Japan and South Korea sweltered this year through the hottest summers since each country began keeping records, their ...

For several decades, a central puzzle in quantum physics has remained unsolved: Could electrons behave like a perfect, ...

In a new paper, published in Nature Human Behaviour, scientists from DTU (the Technical University of Denmark) examine how geography shapes human mobility and propose a way to separate physical ...

Natural hydrogen from deep underground could be an important building block for the sustainable energy system of the future, ...

In a recent study, a research team led by Martin Ebert from the Ludwig Maximilian University and Adriana López-Arbarello from ...

Few of us ever think about what happens beneath our feet when we walk through a field of wheat or clover. We see the stalks, ...

A recent report on "The Future of Jobs" by the World Economic Forum found that while analytical thinking is still the most ...

Coral reefs are in crisis. Rising ocean temperatures driven by climate change are pushing these ecosystems to the brink, with ...

The viability of fish populations relies on healthy habitats where juveniles can spawn, feed and develop. A cornerstone of ...

One of the worst earthquakes in European history ripped through Portugal in 1755, causing a tsunami, fires and shaking that ...