The first step in treating cancer is understanding how it starts, grows and spreads throughout the body.

Vehicles have evolved to become more efficient and sophisticated, but their fuel hasn’t necessarily evolved along with them.

For those trying to live a healthy lifestyle, the choice between sugar and artificial sweeteners can be confusing.

One-third of the fertilizer applied to grow corn in the U.S. each year simply compensates for the ongoing loss of soil fertility, leading to more than a half-billion dollars in extra costs to U.S. farmers every year, finds new research from CU Boulder published last month in Earth’s Future.

When we experience a new event, our brain records a memory of not only what happened, but also the context, including the time and location of the event.

To resolve the energy crisis and environmental issues, research to move away from fossil fuels and convert to eco-friendly and sustainable hydrogen energy is well underway around the world.

Anthropogenic, or human-made, heat flux in the near-surface atmosphere has changed urban thermal environments. 

Engineers at MIT and Imperial College London have developed a new way to generate tough, functional materials using a mixture of bacteria and yeast similar to the “kombucha mother” used to ferment tea.

Wild bees are more affected by climate change than by disturbances to their habitats, according to a team of researchers led by Penn State. 

An unfortunate truth about the use of mechanical ventilation to save the lives of patients in respiratory distress is that the pressure used to inflate the lungs is likely to cause further lung damage.