'Saline agriculture' – the process of adapting farming techniques to salted soils – could prove key for coastal farms at...
Rather than eliminating jobs, the company hopes, the robots will fill the gaps in the industry’s workforce. And he believes...
The fate of industrially farmed animals is one of the most pressing ethical questions of our time. Tens of billions...
China has reportedly reassigned over 60,000 soldiers to plant trees in a bid to combat pollution by increasing the country's...
A new study demonstrates the viability of using anaerobic digestion in a low-temperature (20°C) environment to convert solid food waste...
The idea behind solar geoengineering is simple. For the last four decades, humanity has struggled to reduce the amount of...
In all categories except for water depletion, the healthy vegetarian diet was shown to save at least 42 percent of...
After eight coal- and oil-fired power plants in California closed, the rate of premature birth for moms living nearby dropped...
“I’ve found music to be very magical,” Barney said. “It’s not the cure-all, it’s not a pill that just fixes...
A new study by researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health showed that B vitamins may play a...
Women who live high up in tower blocks are more than twice as likely to miscarry as their neighbours living...
Roughly 80 percent of people around the globe identify with some type of religion, and scientists have been seriously pursuing...
Tesla boss Elon Musk tweeted that “nobody ever changed the world on 40 hours a week.” “People are starting to...
Unfortunately, research and experience both affirm and deny the podiatric benefits of minimalist footwear
It's a textbook moment centuries in the making: more than 200 years after scientists started investigating how water molecules conduct...
Increased levels of prenatal fluoride exposure may be associated with lower cognitive function in children, a new study says. The...
Water has numerous anomalous properties, many of which remain poorly understood. One of its intriguing behaviors is that it exhibits...
Water is liquid at room temperature – astounding for such a small molecule. Insights into the causes are provided by...
A major study into an ancient climate change event that affected a significant percentage of Earth’s oceans has brought into...
What happens when you put a drop of liquid in an electric field? Until recently, scientists thought they had the...
Stomach MRI images combined with functional fMRI of the brain activity have provided scientists new insight into how the brain...
The future of transportation in waterway-rich cities such as Amsterdam, Bangkok, and Venice — where canals run alongside and under...
A non-religious man in Oakland managed to virtually eliminate neighborhood crime with nothing more than a statue of Buddha bought...
At the Bronx Montefiore Medical Center in New York, Dr. Martin Levy uses clicker training — a technique drawn from...
The findings follow research by Cambridge University that found empathy is a largely learned trait, although it can be passed...
It was a fairly modest experiment, as these things go, with volunteers trooping into the lab at Harvard Medical School...
In 1992, a group of Italian neuroscientists reported that macaque monkeys have neurons that fire not only when a monkey...
The phenomenon of imploding bubbles, called sonoluminescence because it emits a flash of light as the bubble collapses, has been...
