Years ago, in 1984, Stamets had noticed a “continuous convoy of bees” travelling from a patch of mushrooms he was...
China drone-maker DJI is betting on flying machines that shoot pesticide instead of photos to fend off growing competition in...
Permaculture enthusiasts are quick to make bold claims about food forests feeding the world. But how often do we see...
“We’re getting higher yields, but we’re not better off,” said T. Venkatesh, one of the cotton farmers, in an interview....
Every health nut will tell you the reason why the US food market is such a mess. It’s fast food...
'Saline agriculture' – the process of adapting farming techniques to salted soils – could prove key for coastal farms at...
Eccentric gardeners who sing to their plants may not be altogether mad, says Joel Sternheimer, a French physicist and musician....
Canadian researchers studying the neuroscience of the moment of death ('necroneuroscience') have uncovered a surprising phenomenon: anomalous EEG activity up...
A memory technique invented by the ancient Greeks can make dramatic and long-lasting improvements to a person’s power of recall,...
Sleep deprivation can adversely affect a person's decision-making at a gambling table by elevating the expectation of gains and making...
A surprising new strategy for managing your weight? Bright morning light. A new Northwestern Medicine® study reports the timing, intensity...
Mental health problems including psychotic experiences could in part be down to a lack of sleep, researchers have revealed. A...
Blue light helps people to relax more quickly, new research finds. Compared with regular white light, people are able to...
UB scientists provide first evidence that carbamates can upset circadian rhythms.
When ionic salts, made of bundles positively and negatively charged particles, dissolve in water, the bundles break apart, leaving positively...
Researchers in Japan have discovered that injecting billions of microscopic bubbles into water used to irrigate organic tomatoes and strawberries...
A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that plastic particles in water may end up inside fish brains....
Solar fuels, a dream of clean-energy research, are created using only sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide. Researchers are exploring a...
We all know that water melts at 0°C. However, already 150 years ago the famous physicist Michael Faraday discovered that...
“For years quite a few people speculated that such a gas state might exist,” Ducker explains. “This was based on...
It's a textbook moment centuries in the making: more than 200 years after scientists started investigating how water molecules conduct...
A small but distinctive signal in X-rays from the Milky Way could be key to proving the existence of dark...
The dynamic dance between the Earth’s magnetic field and the solar wind – the aurora - is said to be...
College students who hit campus after 2000 have empathy levels that are 40% lower than those who came before them,...
Having studied Earth's climate for many decades now, it is known that the direct consequences of a rapid climate change...
A series of quantum experiments shows that measurements performed in the future can influence the present. Does that mean the...
The human gut is lined with more than 100 million nerve cells—it’s practically a brain unto itself. A new study...
Decision-making is typically thought of as something done by intelligent living things and, in modern times, computers. But over the...
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