'Saline agriculture' – the process of adapting farming techniques to salted soils – could prove key for coastal farms at...
A new type of housing community known as an "agrihood" is popping up around the US. Agrihoods are built around...
The shocking collapse of insect populations hints at a global ecological meltdown hich of these would you name as the...
Salts that de-ice roads, parking lots and sidewalks keep people safe in winter. But new research shows they are contributing...
Findings of a new study solve a key mystery about the chemistry of how plants tell time so they can...
Electrified metal frames have previously been used to encourage coral growth on reefs in South-East Asia, the Caribbean and the...
Scientists calculated average ocean temperatures from 1999 to 2015, separately using ocean buoys and satellite data, and confirmed the uninterrupted...
Leading neuroscientist Matthew Walker on why sleep deprivation is increasing our risk of cancer, heart attack and Alzheimer’s – and...
More than a quarter of all evening meals in the UK are vegan or vegetarian, research shows. In the 12...
Exposing your body to cold water has been promoted as a health tonic since at least the Roman period, so...
Impact of high levels of toxic air ‘is equivalent to having lost a year of education’. Air pollution causes a...
Students in England already learn about mathematics, science and history, but hundreds of schools are preparing to expand the traditional...
Results from a clinical review find nearly 1 billion people worldwide may have deficient or insufficient levels of vitamin D...
People who frequently check Facebook on their smartphone tend to have less gray matter in a reward-related area of the...
More than 2,000 years ago, Aristotle wondered how hot water froze faster than cold water – Francis Bacon and Rene...
We normally consider liquid water as disordered with the molecules rearranging on a short time scale around some average structure....
“For years quite a few people speculated that such a gas state might exist,” Ducker explains. “This was based on...
For years health experts have been unable to agree on whether fluoride in the drinking water may be toxic to...
Water is liquid at room temperature – astounding for such a small molecule. Insights into the causes are provided by...
The surface of the water droplets turns out to be much more ordered than that of normal water and is...
At the same time that the human population continues to grow, the seepage of salt into freshwater systems is reducing...
A small but distinctive signal in X-rays from the Milky Way could be key to proving the existence of dark...
Some of the world's most renowned scientists are questioning whether the cosmos has an inner life similar to our own....
The sun has been in the same routine for at least 290 million years, new research suggests. Ancient tree rings...
Abstract: Currently, over 90 % of our food is grown on (or in) a virtually irreplaceable, non-renewable natural resource –...
Austrian authorities say druids have been so successful in dealing with motorway accident blackspots in one area that they plan...
It's fascinating that while one of the concerns that has been voiced about the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), is that...
Music is not merely a universal language. It appears to produce a humanizing effect for members of groups experiencing social...
