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Facebook is one of the biggest drivers of misleading content about renewable energy, says Josh Fergen, a researcher at the University of Minnesota Duluth.

These so-called exoplanets include rocky worlds similar in size to Earth, gas giants larger than Jupiter and even"'mini-Neptunes."

Astronomers spend their careers looking up at the sky, away from Earth.

Granular activated carbon is most effective at absorbing PFAS, but it contributes to the carbon footprint — a conundrum scientists want to solve.

On a technical level, noise and sound are the same thing: vibrating molecules that travel in waves straight to our ears. But when sound i ...

The soundscape of our lives changes depending on where we are — the murmuring of voices, birdsong in trees, the beeps and dings of tech ...

It’s the worst nightmare for someone with arachnophobia. Giant spiders the size of your palm could soon call parts of the Delaware Valley home.

Federal law gives the states authority. New Jersey already has enforceable maximum contaminant levels for specific types of the toxic chemicals.

A study says that the palm-sized spider, which has been largely confined to warmer Southeastern states for nearly a decade, could soon colonize regions with colder climates.

It’s when a dark alleyway makes the hairs stand up on the back of our neck; when a mother just knows that something’s wrong ...

The analysis calls on the state to step up efforts to transition buildings to electric power and to end heating homes with natural gas and other fossil fuels.

The U.N. report warns climate change will likely make the world sicker, hungrier, poorer and more dangerous in the next 18 years with an “unavoidable” increase in risks.

The human brain has an incredible capacity for processing information, from sensory data, to casual conversations, to everything we hear ...

The western U.S. is already seeing more blazes, and the likelihood of catastrophic wildfires globally could increase more than 50% by the turn of the century.

Science is constantly propelling athletes to run faster, jump higher, push harder, and break records. Scientific advances have become suc ...