When two materials come into contact, charged entities on their surfaces get a little nudge. 

Autonomous driving algorithm for robot using lidar shows promise with high-bed cultivation methods.

In birds, singing behaviours play a critical role in mating and territory defence.

Scientists estimate that tweaking some burn conditions could cut cancer risks from smoke exposure by over 50%.

Extreme cosmic events such as colliding black holes or the explosions of stars can cause ripples in spacetime, so-called gravitational waves. 

Scientists at EPFL have developed a scalable method to produce porous graphene membranes that efficiently separate carbon dioxide.

Membranes packed with charge help overcome the current salinity limit, making it easier to crystallize ocean salts and harvest valuable minerals from desalination waste.

UC Santa Cruz Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Scott Winton has been wading through thick, smelly muck in the tropics for almost a decade. 

Inactive ingredients in agricultural, pharmaceutical and other common products have typically been excluded from consideration as potential contaminants in drinking water.

Platforms such as iNaturalist and eBird encourage people to observe and document nature, but how accurate is the ecological data that they collect?