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A new battery design could help ease integration of renewable energy into the nation’s electrical grid at lower cost, using Earth-abundant metals.

Researchers have identified tiny organisms that not only survive but thrive during the first year after a wildfire. The findings could help bring land back to life after fires that are increasing in both size and severity.

Most endangered river species are difficult to detect and study due to lack of data on their habitat. Scientists have developed a new quantitative analysis technique, based on eDNA analysis, to record the presence of the endangered bitterling fish.

Researchers have discovered an 80-million-year-old fossil plant that shows that ancestors of crops like coffee, potatoes and tomatoes survived the ice age.

Researchers have shown that epigenetic editing of the cassava plant lessens the symptoms of bacterial blight, potentially improving cassava yield for farmers.

A new study has found that people who drink two or three cups of coffee per day have a lower blood pressure than those who drink one, or none at all.

When you look at icicles carefully, you may notice that they show a characteristic pattern of ripples – always around one centimeter wide – but why? Scientists discovered that salt plays an important part in the phenomenon.

Less than 15% of the 92 million tons of clothing and other textiles discarded annually are recycled—in part because they are so difficult to sort. Woven-in labels made with inexpensive photonic fibers could change that.

Flushing a toilet sprays out tiny droplets of water, urine and feces into the air containing thousands of virus particles, but urine-diverting toilets can reduce a person’s exposure compared to traditional systems.

Scientists from 10 countries have collaborated on a position paper that highlights the devasting consequences nuclear radiation would have on the environment and ecosystems.