A new understanding of how particle shape controls grain flow could help engineers manage river restoration and coastal erosion.

Health benefits of using wind energy instead of fossil fuels could quadruple if the most polluting power plants are selected for dialing down, new study finds.

Scientists have confirmed that a “stabilizing feedback” on 100,000-year timescales keeps global temperatures in check.

Up to one-third of the carbon consumed by Prochlorococcus may come from sources other than photosynthesis.

New MIT tool pinpoints policy combinations that maximize health benefits.

Astronomers have found a way to determine an asteroid’s interior structure based on how its spin changes during a close encounter with Earth.

Swirling waters replenish nutrients in open ocean, a new study finds, and could mitigate some climate change effects.

A “grazing encounter” may have smashed the moon to bits to form Saturn’s rings, a new study suggests.

Refining current opacity models will be key to unearthing details of exoplanet properties — and signs of life — in data from the powerful new telescope.

In a long-studied population of wandering albatrosses, females are less likely to stick with a shy mate.