Physicists are fond of Gedankenexperimente—thought experiments that are difficult or impossible to perform in the real world. Schrödinger’s cat is a well-known example of a thought experiment, used to ...

Cities everywhere are running experiments to respond to climate change and sustainability challenges, such as new mobility ...

Woods Hole researchers, Adam Subhas (left) and Chris Murray, conducted a series of lab experiments earlier this year to test the impact of an alkaline substance, known as sodium hydroxide, on copepods ...

Researchers conducting an experiment in Alameda to determine the feasibility of mitigating global warming by spraying sea salt particles into the air are looking at their next steps after the city ...

To cool our planet in the wake of climate change, some scientists have advocated for blocking sunlight by using clouds as giant reflectors. But early forays into these feats of so-called marine cloud ...

On a brisk September morning, Brian Palik’s footfalls land quietly on a path in flickering light beneath a red pine canopy in Minnesota’s iconic Northwoods. A mature red pine, also called Norway pine, ...

In A Nutshell: Male frog calls change with water temperature: Warmer water produces faster, shorter calls while cold water ...

Engineered “trees” are moving from lab sketches to steel and sorbent in the ground, promising to pull carbon dioxide directly from the air at industrial scale. Instead of leaves and bark, these ...