An Indian court has recognised Himalayan glaciers, lakes and forests as "legal persons" in an effort to curb environmental destruction,...
Report warns of catastrophic consequences and blames manufacturers for ‘systematic denial of harms’ and ‘unethical marketing tactics’ The idea that...
Organic farmers can use a combination of cover crops and no-till methods to improve soil health, suppress weeds, and retain...
In the case of a loaf of bread, the main source of these emissions is the nitrogen fertiliser used to...
A team of researchers from Yeungnam University in Gyeongsan, South Korea, found that “green music” can cause plants to undergo...
"Earth, and all life on it, are being saturated with man-made chemicals in an event unlike anything in the planet's...
A group of pea plants has displayed a sensitivity to environmental cues that resembles associative learning in animals The seedlings...
Canadian researchers studying the neuroscience of the moment of death ('necroneuroscience') have uncovered a surprising phenomenon: anomalous EEG activity up...
A little-understood biological property that appears to allow cell components to store energy on their outer edges is the possible...
People living in neighbourhoods with more birds, shrubs and trees are less likely to suffer from depression, anxiety and stress
An office enriched with plants makes staff happier and boosts productivity by 15 per cent, a University of Queensland researcher...
There's a multi-billion-dollar industry devoted to products that fight signs of aging, but moisturizers only go skin deep. Aging occurs...
“I’ve found music to be very magical,” Barney said. “It’s not the cure-all, it’s not a pill that just fixes...
There is growing evidence for the environmental and health benefits of gardens and gardening. Access to green spaces has been...
It's fascinating that while one of the concerns that has been voiced about the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), is that...
One of the most fundamental tenets of modern physics is that in a perfect vacuum - a place entirely devoid...
One of the biggest mysteries in physics is why there's matter in the universe at all. This week, a group...
Why do otherwise healthy sea creatures end up stranded along coastal areas around the world? NASA scientists are searching for...
A small but distinctive signal in X-rays from the Milky Way could be key to proving the existence of dark...
On three occasions, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has detected gamma rays from solar storms on the far side of...
Researchers have devised a test to see if pairs of black holes — famous for creating gravitational waves when they...
Solar fuels, a dream of clean-energy research, are created using only sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide. Researchers are exploring a...
"Normally, when liquid water is cooled below its freezing point, the water molecules arrange themselves in the ordered, crystal structure...
Brandies, such as cognac, are renowned for colors, flavors and aromas that require years to achieve. But scientists in Spain...
More than 2,000 years ago, Aristotle wondered how hot water froze faster than cold water – Francis Bacon and Rene...
The second state of liquid water could be a result of its unusual molecular structure, which takes the shape of...
We all know that water melts at 0°C. However, already 150 years ago the famous physicist Michael Faraday discovered that...
It's a textbook moment centuries in the making: more than 200 years after scientists started investigating how water molecules conduct...
