The fifth state of matter—the ultracold Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC)—has been an invaluable tool in unlocking the secrets ...

A massive volcano hidden beneath the Pacific is swelling again, but its predicted eruption never came. Scientists are now ...

Across some of the planet’s driest regions, engineers are racing to turn humidity into a reliable tap, using materials that ...

Physicists have taken a gemstone better known for engagement rings and turned it into a laboratory for one of the strangest ideas in modern physics, a phase of matter that repeats in time instead of ...

Incomplete water disinfection may unintentionally accelerate the spread of antibiotic resistance genes in aquatic ...

Tulsi, or holy basil, is something that people like to have in their homes and gardens because it is special to them. When ...

Cowbirds are special among songbirds for the "watery" timbre of their singing, which resembles the sound of falling droplets ...

Harsh Goenka discussed Calhoun's 'Mouse Paradise' experiment, illustrating how overpopulation resulted in violence and ...

Earlier this year, a spate of deaths in Florida caused by Vibrio vulnificus, known as the flesh-eating bacteria, made ...

A thought experiment that was at the heart of an argument between famed physicists Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr in 1927 has finally been made real. Its findings elucidate one of the core mysteries ...

Using ultrasound, MIT has created a powerful technique to extract and transform moisture in the air into clean water. MIT engineers designed an ultrasonic system to “shake” water out of an atmospheric ...

New research uses laboratory experiments to demonstrate that water is naturally created during the planet formation process. By squeezing and heating planetary analog materials between the tips of two ...