Microplastics are the crumbs of our plastic world, tiny pieces that come from bigger items breaking apart or from products ...

Off the coast of Antarctica, the sea ice retreated toward the southernmost continent and, like a bottle cap taken off a soda ...

A research team led by Prof. Ben Ko Chi-bun, Associate Professor of the PolyU Department of Applied Biology and Chemical ...

After a slight delay, Australia and Papua New Guinea formally signed a defense treaty this week committing the two nations to ...

Artificial intelligence technology has begun to transform higher education, raising a new set of profound questions about the ...

During warmer periods of the Middle Pleistocene, ancient humans in Italy were in the habit of butchering elephants for meat ...

New research, based on forest fires in Australia, proves there is a significantly higher risk of large-scale flooding when ...

The days are getting shorter, the temperatures are dropping. Numerous animals are migrating south, others are seeking their ...

It's a quiet autumn evening. You're enjoying some TV, when an unscripted movement catches your eye. A large house spider ...

Each year, U.S. wastewater treatment plants clean trillions of gallons of water, from what we flush down the toilet to drain ...

Analysis of preserved feces and intestinal tissue has revealed specific types of bacteria that were present in the microbiome ...