As communities around the world promote refill stations and water fountains over bottled water, it's worth revisiting a fact about bottled water: most of it is literally the same water we get out of our faucets.
If the Moon has enough water, and if it's reasonably convenient to access, future explorers might be able to use it as a resource.
Inspired by the human eye, researchers have developed an adaptive metalens that is essentially a flat, electronically controlled artificial eye.
Lengthy observations by the Hubble Space Telescope indicate the universe is expanding faster than predicted by standard models and that Einstein’s cosmological constant, thought by many to define dark energy, may not be so constant after all.
Industrial fishing takes place across more than 55 percent of the world’s oceans, according to a new study.
The key to respect, acceptance and appreciation of our forms of expression, our ways of being human and of our rich diversity within cultures, is tolerance.
A study of the diets of 34,000 people confirms that a diet high in fruit and vegetables is better for the planet than one high in animal products.
The Seychelles announced two new Marine Protected Areas in a debt-for-nature swap designed by The Nature Conservancy and backed by Leonardo DiCaprio.
The plant, which was expected to begin operation in January, will incinerate 1,400 tons of waste every day.
Nissan will begin testing its Easy Ride self-driving taxi service in Yokohama, Japan in early March in hopes of launching the full service by the start of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
The goal of cultural evolution is to help us make ethical decisions about how to govern society.
Elon Musk’s internet-in-space project took to the stars today, as SpaceX launched two experimental satellites that will form the base of the company’s Starlink broadband service.
Now, researchers have found 73 percent of Northwest Atlantic deep-sea fish are eating microplastic – the highest reported frequency of plastic-eating fish in the world.
The field of competitors looking to bring exascale-capable computers to the market is a crowded one, but the United States and China continue to be the ones that most eyes are on.
