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Wastewater from washing machines is considered a major source of microplastics—tiny plastic particles that are suspected of harming human and animal health. Researchers at the University of Bonn have ...

Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr had an ongoing rivalry about the true nature of quantum mechanics, and came up with a thought ...

The UC Davis‑led ARPA‑E project hopes to demonstrate selective, low‑pH recovery and onsite concentration of critical rare ...

University of Pittsburgh researchers have made an important step toward providing hospitals and water treatment facilities ...

When weird fungal epidemics crop up in far-flung places, scientists work together to unravel how the microscopic murderers ...

A growing body of scientific evidence reveals that primary producers—including plants and phytoplankton—possess a previously ...

Inside the ruined shell of reactor 4 at Chernobyl, where gamma radiation still spikes far above normal background levels, a ...

Rwanda and Senegal joined the global commitment to triple nuclear energy capacity by 2050 at COP30 in Belém, Brazil. They ...

The uranium industry left a trail of sickness and loss through Navajo territory, yet Trump is pushing for another mining boom ...

Asteroid Bennu has gone from a dark speck in telescope images to a kind of time capsule, carrying intact chemistry from the ...