A social work professor found in a new study that black middle school students receive fewer warnings from their teachers about misbehavior, giving them fewer opportunities to correct their behavior o..

Making the shift to renewable energy sources requires biomass, too.

A new battery made from affordable and durable materials generates energy from places where salt and fresh waters mingle. The technology could make coastal wastewater treatment plants energy-independe..

A new study found that smoke from fires in Africa may be the most important source of a key nutrient — phosphorus — that acts as a fertilizer in the Amazon rainforest, Tropical Atlantic and Southern..

Geoscientists develop a method to forecast seismic hazards caused by the disposal of wastewater after oil and gas production.

Infants 17 months of age expect leaders — but not others — to intervene when one member of their group transgresses against another, a new study reveals.

Even 3- to 5-year-olds know what typical dogs and fish look like — and they apply that knowledge when they hear new words. Researchers found that when children encounter new nouns, they use what they..

Scientists have identified one kind of lung cell that can hustle to repair its damaged DNA and survive an attack of the influenza A virus while other kinds of cells around it die in droves. The findin..

A two-faced interface between growing carbon nanotubes and solid catalysts turns out to be more common than once believed, according to a new theory. Understanding of the mechanism could help scientis..

Engineers have developed a method for extracting a color image from a single exposure of light scattered through a mostly opaque material. The technique has applications in a wide range of fields from..