During the Archean Eon—roughly 4 billion years ago—the Earth was a lifeless planet. The atmosphere lacked oxygen, and there ...

Crews aboard U.S. Navy nuclear-powered submarines can remain submerged for months at a stretch, their patrols ending not ...

Batteries are undergoing rapid advances. For example, modern zinc-air batteries have the remarkable ability to use oxygen as ...

Alabama is seeking to execute a man with lethal injection hours after his nitrogen execution was prevented from going forward ...

The unsigned decision for now spares Jeffery Lee, a convicted murderer, and could lead to a broader fight over the relatively ...

A federal appeals court has ruled Alabama’s method of executing prisoners with nitrogen gas could cause “intolerable” ...

A federal judge banned Alabama from executing an inmate by nitrogen hypoxia, calling the method unconstitutionally cruel.

Oxidation reactions are indispensable to the chemical industry, but from a process safety perspective, they are among the ...

A federal judge on Tuesday permanently blocked Alabama from executing an inmate with nitrogen gas after declaring the method violates the ban on cruel and unusual punishment.U.S.

While solar panels rely on sunshine and wind turbines depend on changing weather conditions, ...

Modeling the effect of DNA sequence variation on phenotypes such as gene expression faces unique challenges when deciphering inter-individual variation. This study presents a scalable and efficient ...