Conservationists fear spills in icy waters as Norway awards oil-production licences

Russian space scientists this week floated the idea of building a new version of the Phobos-Grunt sample return spacecraft after the first model failed to escape Earth orbit and crashed in the Pacific on 15 January

We use polyurethane to make just about everything—garden hoses, furniture, the entirety of my local 99-cent store. What it isn't is recyclable—there isn't a single natural process that breaks it down. That is until a newly-discovered Amazonian fungus takes a bite

Sales of forest land to corporations are dispossessing inhabitants and harming ecosystems

Earth is getting 50,000 tonnes lighter every year, even while 40,000 tonnes of space dust fall on our planet's surface during the same period. So, why are we losing so much weight? You will be surprised

How resveratrol benefits health a matter of debate 

The brain’s electrical activity can be decoded to reconstruct which words a person is hearing, researchers report in PLoS Biology

The results help piece together a puzzle on the biological processes of genes and cells, and in particular on cell division

The European Space Agency's light launcher is set to lift off 

It takes 24 million generations for mouse-sized mammals to evolve into elephants — but shrinking back is much faster