An avalanche is caused by a chain reaction of events. A vibration or a change in terrain can have a cascading and devastating ...

RIKEN. Plastic has become a permanent fixture in modern life—and that’s exactly the problem. Designed for convenience, it clogs oceans, chokes marine life, and lingers in ecosystems for centuries.

A small study found that fatty buildup in the blood vessels of the neck (carotid arteries) may contain 50 times or more micronanoplastics -- minuscule bits of plastic -- compared to arteries free of ...

As plastic pollution in the world's oceans reaches critical levels, recently published research reveals how artificial ...

Everything around us is made of atoms, but it turns out that the building blocks of the Universe are far stranger than that Science writer and astrophysicist Adam Becker explains what the ...

Katie Malarkey is a 2004 RIT physics alumnus who has returned to complete her Ph.D. in sustainability. She is now researching ...

Physicists have successfully played a mind-bending “quantum game” using a real-world quantum computer, in which lasers ...