Last year, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) issued at least nine recall notices on products that didn't comply with the mandatory standard for nightwear for children. All of ...

The tell-tale smell of rotten eggs is often a sign that sulfur is at work. Sulfur is a key element in proteins such as keratin, which makes hair and nails tough, and used in agriculture to make ...

Exponential growth in big data and computing power is transforming climate science, where machine learning is playing a critical role in mapping the physics of our changing climate.

The bacteria Legionella can survive in water systems for years and can cause acute and chronic illness: In 2014-15, it was blamed for at least 12 deaths in the Flint water crisis in Michigan, and as ...

Researchers tested five species of commonly hunted waterfowl in the northeast Atlantic Flyway and, in every sample, found contaminants that could impact the health of the birds, as well as the hunters ...

Treating hair loss may be as simple as developing therapies to flip a molecular "switch," according to a new study by researchers from Penn State; the University of California, Irvine; and National ...

A new experimental vaccine developed by researchers at MIT and Caltech could offer protection against emerging variants of SARS-CoV-2, as well as related coronaviruses, known as sarbecoviruses, that ...

Climate change is making extreme weather events worse, empowering meteorological phenomena such as storms, hurricanes, heat waves, and droughts. Against this backdrop, numerical weather predictions ...

By refining an artificial intelligence approach to predicting earthquakes in the laboratory, or labquakes, engineers at Penn State are paving the way to one day help forecast natural earthquakes.