Questions attribution studies seek to answer are: did the warmer climate make a flood, heatwave, fire or storm more likely, ...

The LA wildfires stand as a reminder that evacuating fast in the face of a disaster isn’t easy, even when you think you’re ...

The narrow, deep holes required for one type of flash memory are made twice as fast with the right recipe, which includes a plasma made from hydrogen fluoride.

One of the most frequently asked questions about quantum computers is a simple one: When will they be useful? If you talk to people in the field, you'll generally get a response in the form of ...

Electric propulsion is being increasingly used on space missions and could ultimately replace thrusters using chemical ...

Researchers at the University of Oxford have pioneered a new approach to simulate turbulent systems, based on probabilities. The findings have been published today (29 January) in the journal Science ...

Turning environmental waste into useful chemical resources could solve many of the inevitable challenges of our growing amounts of discarded plastics, paper and food waste, according to new research.

Inspired by high-dimensional data and the ideals of open science, high-energy physicists are using artificial intelligence to ...

Evolution is complex and difficult to study, but TraitTrainR, a new software package developed by the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, offers researchers a better way to simulate how ...

Young supernovas could have spread water out into the cosmos, causing planet formations earlier than originally thought.

A slush flow is a mass of water-saturated snow that moves over long distances at high speed. In a series of new, free-to-use ...

Scientists have discovered a new type of planetary collision called “kiss-and-capture,” where Pluto and proto-Charon briefly ...