Citizen scientists recorded trash on Pacific Northwest beaches, from southern Oregon to Anacortes, Washington, to contribute to the growing study of marine trash.
White-necked jacobin hummingbirds sport a colorful blue-and-white plumage as juveniles. When they grow into adulthood, males retain this dazzling pattern, while females develop a more “muted” palette of green and white — at least, most females. Curiously, about 20% of females defy the norm and retain male-like plumage into adulthood.
Chemists with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have designed a new nanoparticle that can be loaded with multiple drugs to provide a more effective cancer treatment, according to an MIT News article published Jan. 26.
A team of MIT physicists has witnessed resonance in colliding ultracold molecules, a discovery that ultimately could provide a clue to the forces that drive molecules to chemically react and eventually provide a way to control chemical reactions.
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have discovered, what they call, an exciting new property in "magic-angle" graphene, according to an MIT News article published Jan. 30.
Scientists who drilled deeper into an undersea earthquake fault than ever before have found that the tectonic stress in Japan’s Nankai subduction zone is less than expected.
A new study by researchers at the University of Washington shows that losing a particular group of endangered animals — those that eat fruit and help disperse the seeds of trees and other plants — could severely disrupt seed-dispersal networks in the Atlantic Forest, a shrinking stretch of tropical forest and critical biodiversity hotspot on the coast of Brazil.
RIKEN-engineered microbes and plant lignin could soon help produce everything from car tires to engine components.
Andrea Benucci and colleagues at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science has developed a way to create artificial neural networks that learn to recognize objects faster and more accurately.
An electrocatalyst that has a long shelf life is a major step towards realizing terawatts from green hydrogen.
People often visit U.S. national parks to catch a glimpse of wildlife. But how does our presence impact the animals we hope to see?
Heat-related deaths are an issue across Washington state, and they occur even in regions that typically have milder climates, according to a University of Washington study published Aug. 30 in the journal Atmosphere.
Forecasters are predicting a “three-peat La Niña” this year. This will be the third winter in a row that the Pacific Ocean has been in a La Niña cycle, something that’s happened only twice before in records going back to 1950.
Light-induced changes in shape enable a pump in a marine bacterium to suck in chloride ions from seawater
In January 2019, a seizure of 3.3 tons of ivory in Uganda turned up something surprising: markings on some of the tusks suggested that they may have been taken from a stockpile of ivory kept, it was thought, strictly under lock and key by the government of Burundi.
Six fluorescent compounds have been uncovered by a novel strategy for designing molecules that combines machine learning and quantum chemistry calculations
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a lightweight material that they say is stronger than steel.
While air quality has improved dramatically over the past 50 years thanks in part to the Clean Air Act, people of color at every income level in the United States are still exposed to higher-than-average levels of air pollution.
A new method for single cells can rapidly determine the make-up of bacterial communities in the gut and environment
In much of the United States, there is a twice-yearly shift in timekeeping between standard time and daylight saving time, or DST, which delays both sunrise and sunset to make mornings darker and evenings brighter.