Will the gas stove in your kitchen make you sick? Will it cause asthma in your kids? Those questions came to the fore again this week as federal officials clarified that they are not planning to ban ...

Yellowstone’s volcanic heart is one of the largest magmatic systems on Earth, yet the park’s steaming vents and geysers are ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Have you ever met someone who prefers staying quiet, minding their own business, and avoiding unnecessary interaction?

A joint team from UOsaka has uncovered the core principles of the loss maximization in rotor-driven gas-liquid two-phase ...

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 ...

Americans love their gas stoves. It's a romance fueled by a decades-old "cooking with gas" campaign from utilities that includes vintage advertisements, a cringeworthy 1980s rap video and, more ...

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 ...

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 ...