Lithium ion Nobel Prize shows how individual brainstorms add up to world-transforming innovations
The three winners of the Chemistry Nobel this year started an enormous field of research that people like me are very excited about contributing to.
The three winners of the Chemistry Nobel this year started an enormous field of research that people like me are very excited about contributing to.
Between 1950 and 1975, vodka went from being a statistical blip to America’s best selling spirit.
Mining operations are major water pollution sources and can cause problems that persist for generations.
Families with different structures parent differently – and that can perpetuate inequality across generations.
While methane poses the greatest threat to the climate because of its greenhouse gas potency, the other hydrocarbons present in the natural gas can degrade regional air quality and harm human health.
The oft-repeated claim that the Amazon rainforest produces 20% of our planet’s oxygen is based on a misunderstanding.
Many theories have outlined possible ways the world's languages might have diversified, but there is not one silver bullet to explain it all.
Like the rest of us, governments must borrow when they spend more money than they receive.
As Midwest states struggled with record spring flooding this year, the Southwest was wrestling with the opposite problem: not enough water.
A closer look at the story of the largest coral atoll in the world sheds light on the issues facing those living on such islands all around the world, and the inadequacy of current international policy.