With climate change steadily dismantling the icy habitat essential to their existence, new research suggests polar bears are rapidly rewiring their own genetics in a bid to survive ...

The climate is changing and nowhere is it changing faster than at Earth's poles. Researchers at Penn State have painted a ...

Scientists have managed to observe solar neutrinos carrying out a rare atomic transformation deep underground, converting ...

In the wake of a wildfire, a vital micronutrient can become a toxic heavy metal—and could eventually make its way into ...

These four technologies won’t be on our 2026 list of breakthroughs, but all were closely considered, and we think they’re worth knowing about. Read the full story to learn what they are.  MIT ...

A conflict-driven reroute of international ships exposed how dramatically cleaner fuel reduces cloud formation.

This achievement led to the identification of a previously unknown crystallization pathway in water and resulted in the ...