The project in the Brazilian Amazon is using a new technique for planting trees that results in more, stronger plants–and...
Growing native African shrubs side-by-side with the food crop millet increased millet production by more than 900%. New study finds...
This blue planet is 28 percent land, of which half is rock and ice. So 14 percent of this planet...
A third of the planet’s land is severely degraded and fertile soil is being lost at the rate of 24bn...
Report warns of catastrophic consequences and blames manufacturers for ‘systematic denial of harms’ and ‘unethical marketing tactics’ The idea that...
Widely grown corn plants that Monsanto Co. genetically modified to thwart a voracious bug are falling prey to that very...
One of the biggest problems plaguing the widespread adoption of solar power is, quite simply, rainy weather. A group of...
Your diet may have more impact on your cancer risk than you might think, a new study has found. An...
A new study has found that songs from around the world tend to share features, including a strong rhythm, that...
The pesticide, which belongs to a class of chemicals developed as a nerve gas made by Nazi Germany, is now...
Research shows that four-day work weeks definitely make workers happier, and they could even help close the gender pay gap....
A new study says that holding your loved one’s hand during difficult times will synchronize your breathing, heart rate, and...
Need a pick-me-up? Try a park-me-up. A study by researchers at the University of Alabama-Birmingham finds that spending 20 minutes...
Tesla boss Elon Musk tweeted that “nobody ever changed the world on 40 hours a week.” “People are starting to...
Proponents of clean energy will soon have a new source to add: osmotic power. Or more specifically, energy generated by...
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...
Increased levels of prenatal fluoride exposure may be associated with lower cognitive function in children, a new study says. The...
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....
Neutron scattering and computational modeling have revealed unique and unexpected behavior of water molecules under extreme confinement that is unmatched...
When an empathetic partner holds a lover's hand, their heart rates and breathing rates sync and her pain subsides, new...
Vibratos typically oscillate at a rate of 4-8 cycles per second, or with a period of 125-250 milliseconds per cycle....
ITMO University researchers first estimated that resonances in the pyramid can be induced by radio waves with a length ranging...
The idea that during sleep our minds shut down from the outside world is ancient and one that is still...
UCLA neuroscientists reported Monday that they have transferred a memory from one animal to another via injections of RNA, a...
Austrian authorities say druids have been so successful in dealing with motorway accident blackspots in one area that they plan...
The future of transportation in waterway-rich cities such as Amsterdam, Bangkok, and Venice — where canals run alongside and under...
