Casting "El Caja – What is Life," a short film. Synopsis: A boy discovers an odd-looking rock, and it is later discovered that it is an intelligent being. Treatment: While walking with his father in ...

A 1920s science headline, “Ice cream from crude oil,” may best capture the era’s unbridled enthusiasm for chemistry. “Edible fats, the same as those in vegetable and animal foods … and equally ...

While shells of clams, oysters, mussels and abalone might be a common sight at the end of a seafood dinner, these leftovers are not necessarily destined for the trash can. Shellf Life, a ...

Environmentalists often say that humanity needs to shrink its planetary footprint. Now, a new study has demonstrated how literally massive that footprint is. While the mass of Earth’s life forms ...

Japanese scientists have developed a new type of plastic that’s strong at room temperature, but can be easily broken down on demand into its base components. In seawater, it starts to break down into ...