Physicists have built a quantum gas that behaves nothing like the substances we are used to, and that is exactly why it is ...

Small worlds around other stars may come in more than two varieties. Using exoplanet densities, astronomers have largely sorted planets that are bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune into two ...

Nearly 3.7 kilometers beneath the Greenland Sea, scientists have stumbled on a hidden landscape of icy methane and dense ...

Jeremy Deaton writes for Nexus Media, a nonprofit climate change news service. You can follow him @deaton_jeremy. This story was published in partnership with Nexus Media News. Pipelines exploded with ...

I cautiously recommended the natural gas ETF due to a developing La Niña Modoki, predicting a volatile, yet cold winter for the eastern U.S. Natural gas prices are expected to exceed $4.00 in January, ...

For 25¢ a gallon the U.S. oil industry can now produce quantities of aviation gasoline so powerful that present airplane engines in production cannot make full use of it. Fuel technology has ...

Before the tearing, the choking and the pouring mucus, tear gas burns. It causes searing pain in the eyes, skin, lungs and mouth—or anywhere it touches. “It can be overwhelming and incapacitating. You ...

On Wednesday, hundreds of Turkish riot police forced thousands of protestors out of Taksim Square in Istanbul, by showering them with tear gas and blasting them with water cannons. The square has been ...

OF ALL the nasty ways people have devised to harm each other, chemical weapons are among the worst. But even they have varying levels of unpleasantness. Mustard gas blisters the skin and lungs but is ...