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Like clockwork, radioactive forms of some elements shed parts of themselves as they attempt to become nonradioactive.

Super-small structures on the Arctic animals’ paws might offer extra friction that keeps them from slipping on snow, a new study concludes.

The force of friction always acts to slow things down. It depends on just two factors: the surfaces and how hard they press together.

The tiny plastic bits give these germs safe havens. That protection seems to increase as the plastic ages and breaks into ever smaller pieces.

In what could be a boon to forensics, Iowa State University chemists have come up with a way to analyze the age of fingerprints.

Carbon-14 dating of recent artifacts will soon give scientists confusing results. That’s another price society pays for its reliance on fossil fuels.

Individual seeds on a dandelion release most easily in response to winds from a specific direction. As the wind shifts, this scatters the seeds widely.

Access to the internet is a human right, yet much of the world can’t get online. New tech has to be affordable and usable to end this digital divide.

Ayla was treated before birth for the rare, life-threatening Pompe disease. Now a thriving 16-month-old toddler, her treatments will still need to continue.

These ancient flying reptiles were not dinosaurs, but they were close relatives.

Advances in forensic science are helping to recover invisible fingerprints and identify missing people from bits of tissue or bone.

But the same thing is not happening throughout the kingdom. For instance, more than half of vertebrate populations are stable or increasing.