Nature has been a guiding force for some of the most remarkable inventions in human history. Scientists and engineers often ...

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Every time the temperature drops, a cloud passes overhead, or the sun sets, a plant makes a choice: Keep its microscopic ...

Step aside, golden beaches – now we have stretches of sand glimmering with real pieces of gold. Scientists have captured the ...

Baodan Zhao at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, and her collaborators were also able to create an even tinier LED, ...

And if you redecorate your home and sand down the old paintwork, the plastic binders in the paint can release microplastics ...

Phthalates have been linked with abnormal newborn brain development, and a new study has identified a potential reason why.

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Microplastics are tiny fragments of plastic less than 5 millimeters in diameter, some a fraction of the width of a strand of human hair ... put the filter under a microscope.

The physics of how a quirky pond organism filters the water for food provides new insights into a possible driver of early evolution.

Scientists estimate there are about 4,000 species of native bees in the U.S.—and they’re both cooler and ecologically more ...

The buildup of static charge often occurs due to friction. At a microscopic level, even smooth surfaces are rough and irregular.