Scientists have may have successfully reproduced what's believed to be the first thing that ever lived on Planet Earth.

California officials sent water flowing to create new wetlands along the shores of the shrinking Salton Sea. The project is ...

Chemists at UCL and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology have demonstrated how RNA (ribonucleic acid) might have ...

Ilya Epikhin of US-based consultancy Arthur D. Little explains how drought, demand and desalination are transforming water ...

Scientists at UCL and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology have recreated how RNA might have first replicated itself on ...

Chemists have demonstrated how RNA (ribonucleic acid) might have replicated itself on early Earth -- a key process in the origin of life.

A commando in an elite Sri Lankan police unit, Sameera Dilshan, has an unusual mission – to reclaim farms poisoned by salt, a ...

Chemists at UCL and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology have demonstrated how RNA (ribonucleic acid) might have ...

Infrastructure projects to keep out seawater in southern Vietnam have been plagued by failures. Experts say the country must ...

According to the experts, the fastest way to chill a beer is putting it in a bucket of cold water with not only ice, but also salt. Salt water has a lower freezing point than regular water.

Australia’s biggest lake is believed to have reached capacity on only three occasions in the past 160 years, but the mass of ...

When Cornelius Vanderbilt died in 1877, the industrialist left behind roughly $100 billion in today's dollars. Yet, at a Vanderbilt family reunion less than a century later, in 1973, not a single ...