Transpiration, the process of plants releasing water vapor, is crucial for plant cooling but can lead to dehydration in extreme heat. Continuously high nighttime temperatures exacerbate plant stress ...

Dark “slope streaks,” likely resulting from dust avalanches, stretch across an area of Mars called Acheron Fossae in this ...

The pH scale is a measure of how acidic or alkaline something is, 1 being highly acidic, 14 being highly alkaline, and 7 ...

Warming ocean temperatures and warmer air mean there’s more water vapor in the atmosphere to fuel extreme downpours like ...

Scientists from UCL and the University of Cambridge have revealed that "space ice"—long thought to be completely ...

"Ice in the rest of the universe has long been considered a snapshot of liquid water – that is, a disordered arrangement fixed in place. Our findings show this is not entirely true." ...

Water frozen in the depths of space has long been considered a shapeless, frozen fog. For decades, scientists believed it ...

Scientists have created a solar-powered sponge that transforms seawater into drinkable water using microscopic channels and ...

Straighter, smoother streams flow more violently than those that meander due to a reduction in friction. Areas with steeper ...

While climate change is not solely responsible for causing the recent flash floods across the country, here's how it does ...

"Space ice" contains tiny crystals and is not a completely disordered material like liquid water, as previously assumed, ...