Cambridge, MA - Volcanoes display the awesome power of Nature like few other events. Earlier this year, ash from an Icelandic volcano disrupted air travel throughout much of northern Europe.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Plants are good at doing what scientists and engineers have been struggling to do for decades: converting sunlight into stored energy, and doing so reliably day after day, year after year.

Phosphorus, a mineral element found in rocks and bone, is a critical ingredient in fertilizers, pesticides, detergents and other industrial and household chemicals.

MEDIA ADVISORY : M10-125 HOUSTON - To see what life might be like on a distant planet, reporters need only travel to the Arizona desert.

Adapted from a media release issued by the Wellcome Trust - Thursday 2 September 2010 - A study published online today shows how our bodies try to minimise potential ’collateral damage’ caused by our immune system when fighting infection.

When it comes to refrigerators, size matters. Who hasn‘t at least once in their life wished for a bigger fridge’ However, who can say they‘ve wished for the extreme opposite ’ the smallest conceivable one?

PASADENA, Calif. - Experiments prompted by a 2008 surprise from NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander suggest that soil examined by NASA’s Viking Mars landers in 1976 may have contained carbon-based chemical building blocks of life.

Blacksmiths make horseshoes by heating, beating and bending iron, but what’s happening to the metal’s individual atoms during such a process?