Aware of the environmental devastation polystyrene creates, the furniture retailer is looking to use the biodegradable mycelium “fungi packaging” as...
Apple growers should increase the amount of flowers around their apple orchards if they want to increase their harvest. A...
Wax moth larvae can consume and degrade polyethylene at an impressive rate. Humans produce more than 300 million metric tons...
The world’s largest maritime shipping company is slowly ditching fossil fuels, and in doing so has thrown down a challenge...
The use of herbicides in the production of three genetically modified herbicide-tolerant crops -- cotton, soybeans and corn -- has...
Turning America into a vegan nation would keep millions of Americans from going hungry each year, according to new research....
Plastic. There should be hundreds of thousands of tonnes of the stuff floating around in our oceans. But we are...
When we eat, we do not just take in nutrients – we also consume a significant quantity of bacteria. The...
“Our findings suggest that traumatic experiences – as horrible as they may be – might naturally contribute to the adaptation...
UB scientists provide first evidence that carbamates can upset circadian rhythms.
Why the placebo effect is weirder and potentially more useful than we imagined. “Our patients tell us it’s nuts,” he...
We're finding that aesthetic images can induce staggering changes to the body, including radical reductions in the observer's stress levels.
The body keeps working to repair itself after death, according to a provocative new study that could offer insight into...
Women who live high up in tower blocks are more than twice as likely to miscarry as their neighbours living...
Researchers in Japan have discovered that injecting billions of microscopic bubbles into water used to irrigate organic tomatoes and strawberries...
Water is liquid at room temperature – astounding for such a small molecule. Insights into the causes are provided by...
“For years quite a few people speculated that such a gas state might exist,” Ducker explains. “This was based on...
Water has numerous anomalous properties, many of which remain poorly understood. One of its intriguing behaviors is that it exhibits...
By precisely shaking a container of shallow water, researchers have observed wave behavior that has never been seen before. In...
Solar fuels, a dream of clean-energy research, are created using only sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide. Researchers are exploring a...
Evidence is mounting that water in living systems naturally gathers into frameworks of 14, 17, 21, 196, 280, or more...
Astronomers have discovered a new asteroid—just in time to catch it as it hurtled past us at less than a...
Nasa is planning to launch a probe to collect rock samples from an asteroid it fears could one day hit...
It might sound trite to say that the Universe is full of mysteries. But it’s true. Chief among them are...
An animal schnoz is obviously superior to our own mediocre noses, right? Not so fast. Matthias Laska, a biologist at...
Researchers analyzed the brain activity of two strangers who had a conversation for the first time, finding that the movement...
According to the Lambda Cold Dark Matter (Lambda-CDM) model, which is the current accepted standard for how the universe began...
College students who hit campus after 2000 have empathy levels that are 40% lower than those who came before them,...
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