New data released by the EPA show that nearly half of people in the U.S. have drinking water contaminated by toxic “forever ...

Scientists have revealed how tiny swimming organisms—such as bacteria—are able to move faster when traveling as a group—and ...

Preservatives, emulsifiers and other food additives perform pivotal roles in packaged foods. Here’s what you need to know ...

Motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of death in the U.S. A highway patrol officer explains how drivers should handle ...

New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the building blocks of life.

All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these materials don't ...

Large soda lakes - those without natural runoff - could have built and sustained extremely high concentrations of phosphorus.

Scientists at Lab are unraveling the mysteries of Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, using cutting-edge technology. The ...

Scientists have discovered a new form of water called "plastic ice VII" that exists under extreme pressures and temperatures, ...

In a nutshell Water droplets create “microlightning” when they split, producing electrical discharges without any external ...

Now, a team of researchers—led by astrophysicist Daniel Whalen of the University of Portsmouth in England—has found that the first molecules of water may have formed billions of years before ...

Splitting water molecules takes more energy than calculations suggest, and is a key roadblock to cheap hydrogen fuel production. Now, scientists have discovered why.