A new survey of 12,000 adults in 12 countries revealed overwhelming support for conservation. On average, the majority of survey...
Dominant theory says that desertification is caused by overgrazing. Operation hope, winner of the 2010 Buckminster Fuller challenge, has upended...
More than 100,000 miles of U.S. rivers and streams are polluted by nitrogen and phosphorus, much of it from agricultural...
Plants speak in a chemical vocabulary we can’t directly perceive or comprehend. The first important discoveries in plant communication were...
A team of Indian scientists has developed a compound from the leaf of the mango tree that can protect ships...
There is a crisis in the countryside – and a massive decline in insect numbers could have significant consequences for...
“These provisions really are historic and will be a beacon of light for the rest of the country,” said Kent...
Tesla boss Elon Musk tweeted that “nobody ever changed the world on 40 hours a week.” “People are starting to...
Cutting air pollution around the world to the EU’s legal limit could prevent millions of people becoming depressed, the research...
A new study suggests that air pollution is associated with unethical behavior Most crime in the United States has been...
Study of pilot at New Zealand firm finds staff were happier and 20% more productive. The founder of one of...
An 80-year-old from the Tsimane group had the same vascular age as an American in his or her mid-fifties, suggests...
A study of 160 women found that those who sang lullabies both during pregnancy and after giving birth had babies...
We're finding that aesthetic images can induce staggering changes to the body, including radical reductions in the observer's stress levels.
A major study into an ancient climate change event that affected a significant percentage of Earth’s oceans has brought into...
It’s a well-known fact that water, at sea level, starts to boil at a temperature of 212 degrees Fahrenheit, or...
"Normally, when liquid water is cooled below its freezing point, the water molecules arrange themselves in the ordered, crystal structure...
The reason why raindrops and spilled coffee splash has been revealed by scientists. The new theory uncovers – for first...
Researchers in Japan have discovered that injecting billions of microscopic bubbles into water used to irrigate organic tomatoes and strawberries...
It's a textbook moment centuries in the making: more than 200 years after scientists started investigating how water molecules conduct...
We normally consider liquid water as disordered with the molecules rearranging on a short time scale around some average structure....
A report to UNESCO by botanist Mark Broomhall details the association between increasing amounts of electromagnetic radiation and species disappearance...
Neuroscientists have successfully hooked up a three-way brain connection to allow three people to share their thoughts – and in...
Music is not merely a universal language. It appears to produce a humanizing effect for members of groups experiencing social...
An international team of researchers has conducted an experiment that shows that the arrow of time is a relative concept,...
It's extremely uncommon for a serious science paper, published in an elite journal, to show that psi is a real...
A non-religious man in Oakland managed to virtually eliminate neighborhood crime with nothing more than a statue of Buddha bought...
Druids have been brought in to reduce the number of accidents on Austria's worst stretches of autobahn. After the massive...
