No one would blame you for not wanting your body to be infested with creatures from your garden. But maybe...
A global switch to diets that rely less on meat and more on fruit and vegetables could save up to...
Keeping the rainforest in tact would preserve $8.2 billion of annual revenue in the economy, but Brazil’s new president Jair...
We're just five years away from harnessing almost unlimited power from "miniature suns", some start-ups say: nuclear fusion reactors that...
Turning America into a vegan nation would keep millions of Americans from going hungry each year, according to new research....
Rather than eliminating jobs, the company hopes, the robots will fill the gaps in the industry’s workforce. And he believes...
Major study also finds huge changes to farming are needed to avoid destroying Earth’s ability to feed its population. Food...
Gentle sound stimulation -- such as the rush of a waterfall -- synchronized to the rhythm of brain waves significantly...
The pancreas can be triggered to regenerate itself through a type of fasting diet, say US researchers. Restoring the function...
Atrazine, one of the world’s most widely used pesticides, wreaks havoc with the sex lives of adult male frogs, emasculating...
Scientists have used scans to shed more light on how the brain deals with the memory of unpleasant or traumatic...
Cities have higher salaries, higher education levels and lower unemployment rates. However, that meant nothing in terms of joy: people...
Midday naps are associated with reduced blood pressure levels and prescription of fewer antihypertensive medications, according to research presented at...
Innovative technology developed by NIH-funded researchers has been able to find and facilitate the killing of cancer cells in mice...
We all know that water melts at 0°C. However, already 150 years ago the famous physicist Michael Faraday discovered that...
A major study into an ancient climate change event that affected a significant percentage of Earth’s oceans has brought into...
“For years quite a few people speculated that such a gas state might exist,” Ducker explains. “This was based on...
"Normally, when liquid water is cooled below its freezing point, the water molecules arrange themselves in the ordered, crystal structure...
Water is the Earth's most abundant natural resource, but it's also something of a mystery due to its unique solvation...
Water has numerous anomalous properties, many of which remain poorly understood. One of its intriguing behaviors is that it exhibits...
Motivated by public hazards associated with contaminated sources of drinking water, a team of scientists has successfully developed and tested...
One man who was clinically dead - then brought back to life - accurately described what had been happening in...
It's extremely uncommon for a serious science paper, published in an elite journal, to show that psi is a real...
Abstract: Currently, over 90 % of our food is grown on (or in) a virtually irreplaceable, non-renewable natural resource –...
Here, a social psychologist with impeccable credentials reports evidence for several `psi' phenomena. All I can say is: I did...
Neuroscientists have successfully hooked up a three-way brain connection to allow three people to share their thoughts – and in...
An animal schnoz is obviously superior to our own mediocre noses, right? Not so fast. Matthias Laska, a biologist at...
The phenomenon of imploding bubbles, called sonoluminescence because it emits a flash of light as the bubble collapses, has been...
