A third of the planet’s land is severely degraded and fertile soil is being lost at the rate of 24bn...
"The technosphere is a major new phenomenon of this planet – and one that is evolving extraordinarily rapidly" – Professor...
Forests are the most powerful and efficient carbon-capture system on the planet. So far, advocates and politicians have tended to...
Eating healthier food could reduce greenhouse gas emissions, suggests a new study. As it turns out, some relatively small diet...
“We’re getting higher yields, but we’re not better off,” said T. Venkatesh, one of the cotton farmers, in an interview....
Industrial agriculture is bringing about the mass extinction of life on Earth, according to a leading academic. 'Re-imagining a world...
With one dietary change, the U.S. could almost meet greenhouse-gas emission goals. Scientists from Oregon State University, Bard College, and...
Atrazine, one of the world’s most widely used pesticides, wreaks havoc with the sex lives of adult male frogs, emasculating...
A new study from the Aarhus University in Denmark has found a connection between green space around family homes and...
A new study finds that a noninvasive electromagnetic brain stimulation technique helps obese people lose weight, partly by changing the...
“It didn’t occur to me until recently that headaches were getting better when he just sat among the trees,” says...
For most of human's 200,000-year existence, we walked barefoot. The oldest discovered footwear dates to about 8,000 years ago, although...
Don't be afraid of boredom. It turns out that in our rush to find boredom busters for our children, we...
Doing lots of exercise in older age can prevent the immune system from declining and protect people against infections, scientists...
A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that plastic particles in water may end up inside fish brains....
Penn State researchers have created a new hybrid technology that produces unprecedented amounts of electrical power where seawater and freshwater...
Neutron scattering and computational modeling have revealed unique and unexpected behavior of water molecules under extreme confinement that is unmatched...
By precisely shaking a container of shallow water, researchers have observed wave behavior that has never been seen before. In...
What happens when you put a drop of liquid in an electric field? Until recently, scientists thought they had the...
A real flower was placed into a body of water, and after a while a sample droplet of the water...
Sonoluminescence, the puzzling glow emitted by a bubble in a field of high-pitched sound waves, may be caused by a...
A non-religious man in Oakland managed to virtually eliminate neighborhood crime with nothing more than a statue of Buddha bought...
The idea that during sleep our minds shut down from the outside world is ancient and one that is still...
An animal schnoz is obviously superior to our own mediocre noses, right? Not so fast. Matthias Laska, a biologist at...
It's extremely uncommon for a serious science paper, published in an elite journal, to show that psi is a real...
Cavitation is when low pressure in a liquid produces a bubble that rapidly collapses, and heats up to 20,000 Kelvin...
An international team of scientists has created a non-invasive device that stimulates the brain to improve cognitive function. In tests...
Austrian authorities say druids have been so successful in dealing with motorway accident blackspots in one area that they plan...
