Plant and animal species that are the foundation of our food supplies are as endangered as wildlife but get almost...
Trees, from the mighty redwoods to slender dogwoods, would be nothing without their microbial sidekicks. Millions of species of fungi...
In the early 2000s, the idea of giving legal rights to nature was on the fringes of environmental legal theory...
With one dietary change, the U.S. could almost meet greenhouse-gas emission goals. Scientists from Oregon State University, Bard College, and...
Consumers should consider going organic because pesticides on foods are far more dangerous than was thought, causing damage to the...
'Saline agriculture' – the process of adapting farming techniques to salted soils – could prove key for coastal farms at...
Last week, researchers from the University of Birmingham and the University of Toronto found, in the dormant seeds of the...
The gentle burbling of a brook, or the sound of the wind in the trees can physically change our mind...
Girls exposed to chemicals commonly found in toothpaste, makeup, soap and other personal care products before birth may hit puberty...
Scientists have used scans to shed more light on how the brain deals with the memory of unpleasant or traumatic...
A memory technique invented by the ancient Greeks can make dramatic and long-lasting improvements to a person’s power of recall,...
Children’s risk of autism spectrum disorder increases following exposure in the womb to pesticides within 2000 m of their mother’s...
Cities have higher salaries, higher education levels and lower unemployment rates. However, that meant nothing in terms of joy: people...
Results suggested a consistent causal effect of higher BMI on lower mental wellbeing. There was little evidence that the other...
Invisible to the naked eye, countless tiny bubbles injected into irrigating water are being used in experiments to grow organic...
Water is the Earth's most abundant natural resource, but it's also something of a mystery due to its unique solvation...
Writing in the International Journal of Nanotechnology, Dr. Maestro and co-authors explain how the physical and chemical properties of water...
A real flower was placed into a body of water, and after a while a sample droplet of the water...
At the same time that the human population continues to grow, the seepage of salt into freshwater systems is reducing...
For years health experts have been unable to agree on whether fluoride in the drinking water may be toxic to...
Researchers in Japan have discovered that injecting billions of microscopic bubbles into water used to irrigate organic tomatoes and strawberries...
New research published in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences provides additional evidence that more intelligent individuals are more likely to prefer instrumental...
In the new research, the team explored a particular artificial spin ice geometry, called Shakti spin ice. While these materials...
For the first time ever, scientists have stored light-based information as sound waves on a computer chip - something the...
Austrian authorities say druids have been so successful in dealing with motorway accident blackspots in one area that they plan...
Empathy is a quality that is integral to most people's lives - and yet the modern world makes it easy...
An elegantly simple experiment with floating particles self-assembling in response to sound waves has provided a new framework for studying...
ITMO University researchers first estimated that resonances in the pyramid can be induced by radio waves with a length ranging...
