The U.S. National Flood Insurance Program is going broke. Increased flood strikes in more places, combined with outdated ways ...

Some solid materials can cool down or heat up when pressure is applied or released. This behavior enables cooling and heating ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone is unusually quiet for a megathrust fault. Spanning more than 600 miles from Canada to ...

Wildfires in the northern boreal forests of Alaska, Canada, Scandinavia, and Russia may be more damaging to the climate than ...

Particles in the atmosphere, known as aerosols, cool the climate by acting as cloud condensation nuclei. The more cloud ...

A research team at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has analyzed 40 years of data covering about ...

Changes in rainfall within global monsoon regions affect the livelihoods of billions. For years, climate models have ...

Underground, intricate networks of soil fungi underpin the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems. Yet despite their global ...

Tardigrades, commonly known as water bears, may be better suited by a new name: Tardiguardians of the Galaxy. Unlike the ...

A comprehensive game plan and strategic tactics are critical to winning soccer, but how much does a team's unpredictability ...

To further the quantitative understanding of cellular decision making, Dr. Gregory Reeves and his team in the chemical engineering department have worked to interpret how a transcription factor ...

Efforts to advance toward a more sustainable world focus heavily on a limited set of actions and actors while overlooking key ...