Researchers in South Korea have created magnetic nanohelices that can control electron spin at room temperature. Spintronics, ...

In the next 75 years, surface sea temperatures may rise by up to 4°C, with increasingly frequent short-term marine heatwaves ...

If climate change is here to stay, then the rodents will come out to play. A study released today suggests increasing temperatures are helping to drive a surge in city-dwelling rats. Researchers at ...

A research team led by Prof. WANG Feng from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of ...

Flash floods resulting from extreme rainfall pose a major risk to people and infrastructure, especially in urban areas. Higher temperatures due to global climate change affect continuous rainfall and ...

Toastier fall weather might cause migrating monarch butterflies to wing it and change their flight plans, starting the countdown toward death. Eastern monarchs captured during their autumn migration ...

The Trump administration has proposed a 55% budget cut for the National Science Foundation, but Congress has yet to pass a ...

Researchers have heated solid gold to an astonishing 19,000 kelvins (33,740°F), more than 14 times its melting point, without it melting. This unprecedented feat challenges the long-standing "entropy ...