A ‘self-eating’ rocket engine which aims to put small payloads into orbit by burning its own structure as propellant has won financial support from the UK Government.

As insulators, metal oxides – also known as ceramics – may not seem like obvious candidates for electrical conductivity.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture has awarded a $779,000 grant to Cornell AgriTech researchers to combat fire blight, one of the most devastating bacterial diseases for the apple and pear industries.

On a clear morning in October 2019, Benjamin Z. Houlton stood at the edge of a corn field in California’s Central Valley.

Researchers of the new study investigated the role of protected areas for the range shifts of wintering waterbirds in Europe and North Africa.

Current understanding is that the chemical composition of the Earth’s mantle is relatively homogeneous. But experiments conducted by ETH researchers now show that this view is too simplistic.

Biologist James Stroud’s phone started buzzing early on Jan. 22. A friend who was bicycling to work past the white sands and palm tree edges of Key Biscayne, an island town south of Miami, sent Stroud a picture of a 2-foot-long lizard splayed out on its back. With its feet in the air, the iguana took up most of the sidewalk.

New research shows a simple skin test can accurately identify Parkinson’s disease, demonstrating for the first time the feasibility of the method.

Chemicals that haven’t been manufactured in the U.S. for years or even decades are still turning up in the bodies of migratory terns in the Great Lakes region, a new study finds.

Martin Nweeia of Case Western Reserve University forms international research team to study coronavirus susceptibility of arctic whale.