Embracing solar panels to save money, homeowners have made the country a powerhouse in renewable energy.
It isn’t quite “Star Trek,” but his optical tweezers use the pressure of light in a laser beam to seize and manipulate microscopic objects, from atoms...
The 113-year-old merry-go-round, which arrived in Tokyo after stints in Germany and Coney Island, is now in storage, its fate uncertain in a country that tends...
New findings suggest a previously unknown virus may play a role in the sudden death of many freshwater mussels in recent years.
After researchers noticed fewer nearsighted patients in a hospital ward in China, they speculated that wearing glasses might offer some protection against Covid-19.
A “crazy year” in the Arctic has resulted in the second-lowest extent of sea ice in the region, scientists said Monday.
When it rains in Iran’s Dasht-e Lut desert, the ground comes alive with tiny, upside-down crustaceans.
A new study suggests that the ocean’s strangest-looking headgear is difficult to tote around.
When a species of microalgae gets inside a zooplankton that feeds on it, it smothers the grazer’s eggs and disrupts reproduction.
Scientists have found a potent chemical that might give Australian giant stinging trees their extraordinarily painful punch.