Under poor soil conditions, the pea seems to be able to assess risk. The sensitive plant can make memories and...
Male fish are turning into females thanks to chemicals from birth control pills and makeup being flushed down drains, according...
A Scottish entrepreneur has developed a new eco-friendly bottle that could help combat the growing mountain of plastic litter entering...
Researchers at Leicester University have shown that it might be possible to develop an alternative to antibiotics for treating diseases...
Findings of a new study solve a key mystery about the chemistry of how plants tell time so they can...
Scotland will block fracking indefinitely after a public consultation found overwhelming opposition to the practice, the British region's energy minister...
Dominant theory says that desertification is caused by overgrazing. Operation hope, winner of the 2010 Buckminster Fuller challenge, has upended...
If you’ve ever visited Roman ruins, you’ll know that the ancient Romans were really into bathing. Every town had at...
Increasingly, health researchers are realizing that noise pollution is more than just a nuisance. But while these and other studies...
With its catalogue of headstands and one-legged contortions, it might be thought yoga was best left only to those in...
Margaret Thatcher did it. So did Salvador Dali. They survived the day with only a few hours of sleep. The...
Blue light helps people to relax more quickly, new research finds. Compared with regular white light, people are able to...
Restricting the amount you eat is said to fight disease, extend lifespan and improve wellbeing. As well as dieters, people...
A link between highly processed foods and cancer has been suggested by French researchers. A study of 105,000 people hinted...
More than 2,000 years ago, Aristotle wondered how hot water froze faster than cold water – Francis Bacon and Rene...
Solar fuels, a dream of clean-energy research, are created using only sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide. Researchers are exploring a...
Water is liquid at room temperature – astounding for such a small molecule. Insights into the causes are provided by...
It’s a well-known fact that water, at sea level, starts to boil at a temperature of 212 degrees Fahrenheit, or...
A major study into an ancient climate change event that affected a significant percentage of Earth’s oceans has brought into...
Penn State researchers have created a new hybrid technology that produces unprecedented amounts of electrical power where seawater and freshwater...
Researchers in Japan have discovered that injecting billions of microscopic bubbles into water used to irrigate organic tomatoes and strawberries...
Druids have been brought in to reduce the number of accidents on Austria's worst stretches of autobahn. After the massive...
From the tiniest bacteria to the largest redwood tree, almost all life on planet Earth is ruled by the 24-hour...
Cavitation is when low pressure in a liquid produces a bubble that rapidly collapses, and heats up to 20,000 Kelvin...
Can a planet be alive? Lynn Margulis, a giant of late 20th-century biology, who had an incandescent intellect that veered...
A UK, Canadian and Italian study has provided what researchers believe is the first observational evidence that our universe could...
How can tiny collapsing bubbles inside a vat of water or other liquid reach temperatures of 20,000 degrees C? Nobody...
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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