Instruments picked up the seismic waves more than 10,000 miles away—but bizarrely, nobody felt them. These waves didn't just zip...
A Scottish entrepreneur has developed a new eco-friendly bottle that could help combat the growing mountain of plastic litter entering...
Sea salt around the world has been contaminated by plastic pollution, adding to experts’ fears that microplastics are becoming ubiquitous...
Manure from cattle administered antibiotics drastically changes the bacterial and fungal make-up of surrounding soil, leading to ecosystem dysfunction, according...
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have found that only 2 percent of the spray from pesticides used...
A farm in Portugal is showing how the ancient art of silvopasture – combining livestock with productive trees – may...
It was the first time a study revealed the effects of pesticides on fish. Previous studies in Europe have linked...
A new study has found that not sticking to a regular bedtime and wakeup schedule—and getting different amounts of sleep...
Frequent sauna bathing can reduce the risk of dementia, according to a recent study carried out at the University of...
Research suggests schools could benefit from doing away with shoes – and teachers should go barefoot, too
Rhythmic sound “not only coordinates the behavior of people in a group, it also coordinates their thinking—the mental processes of...
Rolling ocean waves and the low rumble of a distant thunder storm are known to put a person to sleep,...
A new study says that holding your loved one’s hand during difficult times will synchronize your breathing, heart rate, and...
Living among snoozers and night owls are people known as “natural short sleepers.” These individuals have a lifelong tendency to...
Neutron scattering and computational modeling have revealed unique and unexpected behavior of water molecules under extreme confinement that is unmatched...
It's a textbook moment centuries in the making: more than 200 years after scientists started investigating how water molecules conduct...
Researchers in Japan have discovered that injecting billions of microscopic bubbles into water used to irrigate organic tomatoes and strawberries...
For years health experts have been unable to agree on whether fluoride in the drinking water may be toxic to...
What happens when you put a drop of liquid in an electric field? Until recently, scientists thought they had the...
At the same time that the human population continues to grow, the seepage of salt into freshwater systems is reducing...
Penn State researchers have created a new hybrid technology that produces unprecedented amounts of electrical power where seawater and freshwater...
One man who was clinically dead - then brought back to life - accurately described what had been happening in...
In the new research, the team explored a particular artificial spin ice geometry, called Shakti spin ice. While these materials...
Fundamental particles have minute levels of consciousness, and in a watered-down sense, they are subjects of experience. When particles are...
Robin Baker from the University of Manchester took busloads of blindfolded volunteers on winding journeys for several kilometres before asking...
The idea that during sleep our minds shut down from the outside world is ancient and one that is still...
From the tiniest bacteria to the largest redwood tree, almost all life on planet Earth is ruled by the 24-hour...
An elegantly simple experiment with floating particles self-assembling in response to sound waves has provided a new framework for studying...
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