More than one-third of all animals on Earth, from beetles to cows to elephants, depend on plant-based diets. Plants are a low ...

Research has already shown that climate change is causing nutrient dilution in human food crops. Declines in micronutrients, ...

From pathogen research to geoengineering and AI, consequential science is accelerating. Whose hands are on the wheel?

A gesture as simple as a smile can often convey what words cannot. This is part of why nonverbal communication is so central ...

Welcome to the Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich, Vermont – a place where curiosity runs wild and learning feels like ...

Human activities are increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and raising global temperatures. As a result, many plants ...

That's because when Siffre became something of a cave dweller, he made a series of incredible findings regarding how humans respond to living with zero information about time - with no clocks, ...

A reusable and biodegradable fibrous foam developed by researchers at Wuhan University in China can remove up to 99.8 % of microplastics from polluted water. The foam, which is made from a ...

The skinniest pasta yet made—let’s call it “nanotini”—has an average diameter of 372 nanometers and only two ingredients: ...

As we reach the shortest day and the longest night, don’t despair, says Professor Miles Richardson. The natural connections ...

MIT physicists and colleagues have for the first time measured the geometry, or shape, of electrons in solids at the quantum level. Scientists have long known how to measure the energies and ...

Scientists postulate that it must be the unified field, understood in mathematical physics as the most basic field in the ...