Small plastic pellets, used in wastewater treatment facilities since the 1990s, are more than just plastic pollution – they carriy potentially dangerous bacteria.

Ryan Longman, Associate Climatologist, Water Resources Research Center, University of Hawaii The people who manage America’s aquifers, wetlands, shorelines and recreation areas rely on federal science ...

Although advertising revenue largely sustained the news media in the 20th century, it’s been harder to come by in the digital age. News media outlets just aren’t as important these days for ...

Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer has sold to an anonymous phone bidder for US$236.4 million (£180.88 million) at Sotheby’s New York. Only Leonardo Da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi has achieved a ...

As adults interact with kids, they share views and create new knowledge. So what happens if screens take over that interaction?

In 1946, young men in khaki shirts marched through Atlanta performing Nazi salutes and promising racial vengeance. They lasted 10 months. Today’s fascists aren’t as easily banished.

What Robert F. Kennedy Jr. didn’t tell you about ‘Operation Northwoods,’ the false flag operation he loves to denounce ...

More than half of new articles on the internet are now being written by AI – is human writing headed for extinction?

Two ethnobiologists at Penn State surveyed over 800 mushroom harvesters in the mid-Atlantic region to understand what they’re hunting and why.

If you dissolve sugar in hot water and then cool it down, you’ll see pure sugar crystals form while impurities stay in the liquid. You can even watch the beautiful sugar crystal ...

Child refugees could live their entire childhoods in Britain with no guarantee that they will remain in the place they have come to think of as home.

Kiffer George Card, Assistant Professor in Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University Guidelines for social well-being can help health care providers identify when someone is socially isolated and ...