Taking a leaf out of the book of plants, scientists have used a photosynthesis blueprint to harness the power of sunlight and turn two of the most destructive greenhouse gases into useful, prized ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When the sun's out, it’s tempting to leave things outside or by the window. But some items don’t play well with direct sunlight ...

We are all aware of sound pollution, yet we remain largely unaware or indifferent to the growing menace of light pollution.

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Sunlight was once thought to only fragment plastics in the marine environment into smaller particles that chemically resemble the original material and persist forever. However, scientists more ...

If you leave a clear bottle of water in the sunlight, the ultraviolet rays will kill any harmful microbes in that water, making it drinkable … but it has to sit in the sun for at least six hours. A ...

Researchers show that polystyrene, one of the world's most ubiquitous plastics, may degrade in decades or centuries when exposed to sunlight, rather than thousands of years as previously thought. A ...

The relationship between sunlight and human biology runs far deeper than most people realize. While we’ve long understood that sunlight affects mood, emerging evidence reveals that even brief exposure ...