Plants exposed to sound undergo changes, thereby we can infer that they are capable of "hearing"
Generating three centimeters of top soil takes 1,000 years, and if current rates of degradation continue all of the world's...
An Indian court has recognised Himalayan glaciers, lakes and forests as "legal persons" in an effort to curb environmental destruction,...
Wax moth larvae can consume and degrade polyethylene at an impressive rate. Humans produce more than 300 million metric tons...
Meat and dairy companies are on track to be the world’s biggest contributors to climate change, outpacing even the fossil...
More than 80% of farmland is used for livestock but it produces just 18% of food calories and 37% of...
A fundamental drawback of conventional farming is that it fosters topsoil erosion, especially on sloping land. Tillage leaves the ground...
FROM TIME immemorial, prayer for the sick has been a common response to the illness of a loved one. In...
Low-frequency noise may be the most insidious. The subway train rolling underneath one’s feet, the airplane taking off, an idling...
Clusters of gold atoms can detect and kill cancer cells commonly left behind after tumor-removal surgery, according to a study...
Humans can remember new sensory information presented during REM sleep, but this ability is suppressed during deep, slow-wave slumber. Scientists...
A memory technique invented by the ancient Greeks can make dramatic and long-lasting improvements to a person’s power of recall,...
“We found we can change an animal’s sleep/wake rhythms by artificially stimulating the neurons in the master biological clock, which...
People living in neighbourhoods with more birds, shrubs and trees are less likely to suffer from depression, anxiety and stress
“For years quite a few people speculated that such a gas state might exist,” Ducker explains. “This was based on...
We normally consider liquid water as disordered with the molecules rearranging on a short time scale around some average structure....
Brandies, such as cognac, are renowned for colors, flavors and aromas that require years to achieve. But scientists in Spain...
They call it a star in a jar: when sound waves crush bubbles of gas in a liquid, energy is...
The "clean energy economy" always seems to be a few steps away but never quite here. Most energy for transportation,...
A major study into an ancient climate change event that affected a significant percentage of Earth’s oceans has brought into...
"Normally, when liquid water is cooled below its freezing point, the water molecules arrange themselves in the ordered, crystal structure...
‘It’s the first-ever sample of metallic hydrogen on Earth, so when you’re looking at it, you’re looking at something that’s...
Arch Crawford is the possessor of a long chain of dramatically correct economic predictions (or “calls”) which, since 1977, have...
The phenomenon of imploding bubbles, called sonoluminescence because it emits a flash of light as the bubble collapses, has been...
Some of the world's most renowned scientists are questioning whether the cosmos has an inner life similar to our own....
It takes intense, single-cycle pulses of photons – flashes – hitting the cooled alloy at terahertz speed – trillions of...
UCLA neuroscientists reported Monday that they have transferred a memory from one animal to another via injections of RNA, a...
On August 28, 2016, the Earth missed what could have been a doomsday scenario. A large asteroid passed between the...
