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 ...

Project Sunlight, an important component of the Public Integrity Reform Act of 2011, is an on-line database that provides the public with an opportunity to see what entities and individuals are ...

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 ...

Sunlight is often perceived as a threat to your health because it can cause wrinkles, premature aging, and most importantly, skin cancer. But, research suggests exposure to sunlight may actually be ...

The sunlight we see is tens of thousands of years old. How is that possible? If the sun instantly switched off like a light bulb–which can’t happen, by the way–then we wouldn’t know for almost 8 and a ...