Clothes Dryers Are an Underappreciated Source of Airborne Microfibers No one likes when their favorite clothes develop holes or unravel after many laundry cycles. But…
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Pictured are rare earth oxides of neodymium, praseodymium, and dysprosium – all critical components for magnets – that have been processed with sulfidation technology. The…
Salmon can colonize newly created streams, but face many other challenges from climate change. Credit: Freshwaters Illustrated Retreating glaciers in the Pacific mountains of western…
360 million metric tonnes of new plastic was produced in 2018. Here’s where it all went, and why the world must transform plastic use from…
Lower humidity and higher temperatures are driving extreme weather that makes wildfires more frequent and intense, say experts. The world’s eight most extreme wildfire weather…
[embedded content]The increase in tritium concentration caused by Fukushima discharge over a decade. Macroscopic and microscopic simulations of Fukushima nuclear accident contaminated water discharge. On…
Reducing marine debris by 50-90% and a globe circling, high-tech system of monitors are two essential aims among several championed today by nine distinguished international…
Penn State engineers received a National Science Foundation grant to recover rare earth elements from phosphogypsum, a fertilizer byproduct stored indefinitely in open dumps and…
Rice University’s Lauren Howe-Kerr, left, and Adrienne Correa discovered that symbiont algae found on corals in French Polynesia are able to reproduce via mitosis and…
Princeton researchers have developed a technique to better understand how polymers flow through small channels under pressure. Credit: David Kelly Crow Princeton researchers have solved…
The consumption of G20 nations was responsible for 78,000 premature deaths of infants worldwide. Credit: NIES Japanese and Australian researchers show the number of premature…
Earth observation provides a wealth of information to benefit our daily lives. As the demand for satellite data grows to address the challenges of climate…
Plant-based jet fuel could reduce emissions by 68%. Replacing petroleum-based aviation fuel with sustainable aviation fuel derived from a type of mustard plant can reduce…
Newly planted oil palm trees on a plantation in northern Colombia. Credit: Paul Furumo Knowing the steps is not the same thing as knowing how…
Whenever organic matter is burned, such as in a wildfire, a power plant, a car’s exhaust, or in daily cooking, the combustion releases polycyclic aromatic…
Curtin scientists are part of an international research team that studied an ancient supervolcano in Indonesia and found such volcanoes remain active and hazardous for…
A new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign helps define the global relationship between sustainable agriculture and sanitation technology. Credit: Photo by L. Brian…
Princeton UniversityFounded in 1746, Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey and the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in…