To mark this year's upcoming International E-Waste Day, Monday Oct. 14, consumers worldwide are urged to collect dead and/or unused electronics and electrical products and give them a second life ...

Local archaeologists excavating in the Tam Pà Ling cave, Laos ...

Around two-thirds of consumers have used a food-ordering app at least once for takeout, delivery or both, according to ...

Liquid stream of silk solution solidifies to a fiber, adheres to and lifts several steel bolts from a petri dish filled with sand ...

When injected into acetone, a solution of silk fibroin with dopamine and other additives spontaneously forms a web-like ...

Extreme rainfall events are associated with an increased risk of death from all causes as well as from heart and lung diseases, finds an analysis of data from 34 countries and regions published by The ...

Medical professionals have a responsibility to lead the fight against climate misinformation to ensure that the public is well informed about the health risks posed by climate change, say experts ...

In a collaborative effort between Texas A&M University and Sandia National Laboratories, researchers have significantly improved a new joining technology, interlocking metasurfaces (ILMs), designed to ...

A new in-depth study of pre- and post-transplant microbiomes shows that fecal microbiota transplants result in an increase of bacteria that inhabit the same niche within the gut as C. diff, but ...

Plastic, a material designed to be resistant and not break down, remains difficult to recycle. These characteristics make it similar to wood, a naturally recalcitrant substance that is degraded by the ...

To study the physics of firebrands – embers generated by wildfires – UC Irvine researchers set up a unique experiment at the UC Berkeley Blodgett Forest Research Station in California’s Sierra Nevada ...

The ecological, economic, social and cultural values of forests have gained increasing recognition among the public.