A first-of-its-kind national study finds that vehicle-to-home charging can turn electric cars into grid-smart assets, ...

By coaxing soil bacteria into fixing more nitrogen, gene-edited wheat shows how crops might one day sidestep synthetic ...

By stripping two metabolic enzymes, scientists created a mycoprotein that needs less energy, emits less carbon, and rivals ...

In a rare scientific analysis of pending energy legislation, researchers put two competing policy approaches to the test.

Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. As the number of electric vehicles and smart gadgets surges, ethical and environmental problems with the lithium-ion batteries that power them is starting to ...

New analysis shows that charred coffee grounds make increase concrete's strength by 30% and shrink its carbon footprint by ...

If you think about it, it really is an unbelievable chain of events: Earth, a planet shaped by water and home to millions of different life forms, assembles, from a billion molecules, a person who ...

Taking inspiration from anchovies and herrings, researchers have made a new filter that could keep microplastics from entering waterways and oceans. The filter, with a design based on the gill systems ...

Globally, human excreta are a huge untapped source of nutrients. Now, a new perspective paper makes the case that biochar could help to unlock it. The PNAS paper shows that human waste contains over ...

A new film that can be made from widely-available food waste is as effective as conventional plastics at shielding food from moisture and oxygen, its inventors say. The novel material was made by ...