The breakthrough will allow for stunning time lapses that reveal the behavior of electrons.

Paper can be reprinted up to 80 times, greatly reducing the waste associated with inkjet printing.

Pavement that acts as an air purifier could help cities consume their own pollution.

New research suggests long, happy marriages may be in the genes.

A mystery is brewing on Mars: Amateur astronomers spotted enormous plumes erupting off the Red Planet's surface, leaving scientists puzzled.

Satellites, landers, rovers ... can a manned trip to the Red Planet be far behind?

Finding water ice could change everything we thought we knew about the red planet, and make colonization feasible.

Life-affirming data from 1976 was dismissed as a 'false positive,' but former NASA scientist Gilbert V. Levin is speaking up.

In a goofy, profane, self-mocking rap video, a handful of young Australian climate scientists preach an inconvenient truth: There are two few scientists at the

A political action committee aims to connect the STEM community with the resources to run a successful campaign for political office.

Stunning 3-D videos capture the drama of life on a subcellular level.

Scientists in Singapore have concocted a drug cocktail that can extend an animal's lifespan twofold.

The Earth's globally-perceptible seismic 'hum' is now being used to peer into its depths, shedding new light on the planet's inner layers.

You can make a difference for environmental science while traveling, whether you're going to the beach, visiting a park or sticking to cities.

New plastic PDK can be broken down at a molecular level and come back just as strong to be reused again and again.

Wood that bounces sunlight back into the atmosphere could be a game-changer for buildings.

A high-tech collaboration between astrophysicists and ecologists is helping to monitor and protect some of the world's most threatened animals.

Option packages and other 'forced' features increase the base price of many vehicles, balancing out the environmental value, group says.

Climate scientists are beginning to unite to against the misinformation campaigns of right-wingers, but it comes after they've been dealt several blows.

The United Nations rules require the IPCC to seek unanimous consensus, a fact that climate scientists want to see emphasized in the newest report.

A project at CalTech and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is trying to measure the carbon footprint of human activity in the Los Angeles basin.

President Elect Obama could pick an actual scientist to head the Department of Energy.

In their last year of high school, Miranda Wang and Jeanny Yao went looking for a solution to their town's plastic waste problem, and found one close to home.

This hot young scientist has created solutions to everything from helping communities survive a flood to helping his twin sisters learn how to ride their bikes.

New report finds that women start dropping out of the sciences as soon as they graduate from high school.

Lego's new set features a paleontologist, an astronomer and a chemist — all of them female.

Three high schoolers each took home $150,000 at Intel Science Talent Search.

A group of stick spiders in Hawaii evolves into the same three 'ecomorphs' every time it colonizes a new island or region.

Dubbed the 'flying bulldog,' this extremely rare bee has been lost to science since 1981.

Recent studies by two teams of U.S. physicists who are also on the hunt for the elusive Higgs boson (sometimes referred to as the "God particle") reinforced the

Leading coral reef ecologist Jeremy Jackson speaks at TED about the havoc humanity is wreaking on the ocean.

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft discovered Pluto's staggeringly diverse terrain, and scientists are only now starting to dig into what it could all mean.

FDA bans 19 ingredients including triclosan and triclocarban found in antibacterial soap and suggests washing with plain soap and water.

Would you eat meat infused with seaweed? Scientists want to put it in your hot dogs and burgers.

The end of artificial preservatives may be near — thanks to the power of plants and phytonutrients called flavanoids.

Scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have discovered a monster black hole larger than thought possible.

19 newly discovered dwarf galaxies are missing dark matter.

Scientists are studying new data from the Hubble telescope showing that planets with the density of cotton candy exist and they're called Super-Puffs.

Scientists discovered the oldest known material on the Earth's surface while studying a meteorite that landed in Australia 50 years ago.

Novel generator uses harmless viruses to create an electric charge.

Xenobots are hybrids of living frog cells and machinery — a unique hybrid of organic and inorganic parts that can power themselves.

Scientists led by Frank E. Rheindt discovered new five new bird species and five more subspecies on three Indonesian islands.

The movie "Hidden Figures" is the story of the African-American trailblazers who helped win the space race. Now NASA is naming a building after one of them.

Volunteers can lend a hand, from categorizing whale songs to planting sunflowers.

Instead of synthetic insecticides, entomologist Rich Hofstetter is recruiting native fungi to protect forests from bark beetles.

It's hard to get a read on Polaris because it's too bright for our equipment. Plus, other cool facts about the North Star.

The young female set a new speed record for her species.

Mad science? By combining the brains of two different species, one scientist hopes to create a hybrid bird which can be taught to sing.

Bacon shortages could be a think of fiction. A new technique that turns pig stem cells into strips of meat could offer a green alternative to the slaughterhouse

Sunlight in the form of fuel? A breakthrough new discovery brings science one step closer to creating clean hydrogen fuel using only water and sunlight.