Grist reports that penguin guano in Antarctica may help cool the region by forming clouds through ammonia release, but ...

A dark star still shines, but it has something scientists have only theorized about it and can't prove the existence since it ...

Dark matter is one of nature's most confounding mysteries. It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to ...

Efforts to clean up air pollution in China and across East Asia may have inadvertently contributed to a spike in global warming, a new study has found. The decline in aerosol emissions — which can ...

Our sun, currently in its prime, is expected to shine for another 5 billion years. Eventually, it will transform into a red ...

New techniques and refinements of older ones are needed to reach <1 K for quantum-computing cooling. Part 1 provided an ...

When you apply high voltage, the air around the actuator ionizes, creating plasma just above the dielectric surface. This can produce a controllable laminar airflow of charged particles known as ionic ...

Heatwaves are becoming more frequent around the world. And while rising temperatures caused by greenhouse gas emissions are ...

Modern motor oils include additives to prevent the buildup of harmful sludge and varnish inside the engine. They also help to ...

A recent study reveals that declining aerosol levels, alongside clean air policies, might be enhancing heatwave frequency ...

Six years after the University of Iowa landed $115 million from NASA to research how solar wind interacts with the Earth's ...

Long thought to be completely disordered, space ice appears to have some crystallized regions, new research suggests.