A new study has found nanoplastics in the edible part of vegetables for the first time, suggesting significant danger for ...

Most earthquake energy turns into heat rather than ground shaking, sometimes hot enough to melt rock in microseconds. MIT’s ...

The ground-shaking that an earthquake generates is only a fraction of the total energy that a quake releases. A quake can ...

MIT scientists have unraveled the hidden energy balance of earthquakes by recreating them in the lab. Their findings show that while only a sliver of energy goes into the shaking we feel on the ...

When Heather Hulton VanTassel went looking for plastic pellets in the Ohio River in 2021, she was simply trying to establish ...

Everyday use of plastics in the kitchen releases microplastics into food and beverages, but there are practical solutions.

This summer, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) took a breath of fresh air. Normally filled with beams of protons, the 27-km ring was reconfigured to enable its first oxygen–oxygen and neon–neon ...

Each of us takes about 20,000 breaths every single day—20,000 chances for the air around us to either sustain life or to ...

One of the only scientists in the world using a nuclear X-ray process to study deadly nanoparticles in wildfire smoke, Spada ...

It's hard enough to imagine the size of the universe; try wrapping your head around some of the largest known things within it that we've observed so far.

The January wildfires left many scars on the city of Los Angeles, from rubble-reduced homes to torched abandoned vehicles. Though cleanup crews quickly cleared much of the debris, one alarming ...