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UCSD's SOARS simulator recreates ocean conditions to help scientists study how the sea and atmosphere interact.

At 88, Professor Richard Robson has won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for helping create molecular scaffolds known as ...

From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from the cacti and creosote of the Sonoran desert like a gleaming oasis, a colony of glass and bright white structures. Despite being just outside Tucson, Arizona, ...

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Scientists hope to prevent deaths from climate change, but heat and cold are more complicated than we thought.

Thursday (Oct. 9) is Arm and Hammer's second annual Baking Soda Rocket Day. Thousands of students across the U.S. are ...

The race is on to harness the near-infinite power of nuclear fusion—by building a star on Earth. And scientists are closer ...

The BBC got a sneak peek at the rice plants before harvest. Rice plants look a lot like thick grass. But running up the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Some countries’ leaders are watching rising seas threaten to swallow their homes. Others are watching their citizens die in floods, hurricanes and heat waves, all exacerbated by ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...