A study conducted in the Brazilian state of Amazonas has demonstrated that small amounts of Amazonian dark earth (ADE)—an ...

Zinc is an essential trace element that controls myriad biological processes. The delicate balance of its concentration in ...

Regulators often move in and out of revolving doors between government and the industries they oversee. They can bring ...

A technology that could propel crewed missions to Mars and robotic spacecraft throughout the solar system was recently put to ...

Climate change has become entangled in partisan politics. In Canada, as in other countries, climate concern and support for ...

A research team from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) has successfully used mechanical ...

The rise in infertility is not limited to humans, as environmental stressors are quietly undermining the reproductive ...

The exact origin of bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) is still a mystery, but researchers believe they are edging closer to the ...

The genes that could help the world's crops survive drought, heat, and disease probably already exist. But much of this ...

Humans are not the only species negatively affected by increasingly hot and humid conditions. Intense heat waves sometimes ...

Artificial light at night not only alters the landscape, but also profoundly disrupts natural ecosystems. A recent study by the RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau shows that light pollution can ...

A new study, conducted by researchers from the Netherlands and Germany, estimates that urban agriculture in European cities ...