Moisture Farming: Harvesting Fog Can Provide Fresh Water in Desert Regions
Moisture farming is not just for the deserts of Tatooine — advances in fog harvesting technology may provide an additional fresh water source in foggy…
Moisture farming is not just for the deserts of Tatooine — advances in fog harvesting technology may provide an additional fresh water source in foggy…
A specialized silk covering could protect seeds from salinity while also providing fertilizer-generating microbes. Providing seeds with a protective coating that also supplies essential nutrients…
A new nationwide study examined the prevalence of negative behaviors that occur via digital communication, encompassing a broad definition of cyberbullying that includes both cyber-aggression…
A new analysis from the Texas Tech University Department of Psychological Sciences shows three different, equally prevalent purposes behind sexually based messages. Let’s talk about…
Do bad dreams serve a real purpose? To answer this question, researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and University Hospitals of Geneva (HUG), Switzerland,…
Deep in the Sayan Mountains of northern Mongolia, patches of ice rest year-round in the crooks between hills. Locals in this high tundra call the…
Discarded PET bottles could find a new life in the chemical industry. In a world that seems to be drowning in plastic bottles, recycling this…
Hot coffee or cold brew? Pizza or pasta for dinner? These are the decisions that guide our everyday lives. What computations do our brains make…
As families gather together this holiday season, the lucky ones will avoid impassioned discussions about religion and politics. But another argument is almost inevitable: white…
The ‘e-textile’ prototype uses sustainable and low-cost materials like tomato skin. Researchers of the Faculty of Science of the University of Malaga (UMA) have designed…
Ayahuasca Compound Changes Brainwaves to Vivid ‘Waking-Dream’ State Scientists have peered inside the brain to show how taking DMT affects human consciousness by significantly altering…
Newspapers provide a green, economical way to produce carbon nanotubes. Carbon nanotubes are tiny molecules with incredible physical properties that can be used in a…
Adjusting the water flow rate in a river can prevent invasive species from moving upstream and expanding their range. An applied mathematician at UT has…
Study establishes how some songs sound ‘right’ in different social contexts, all over the world. Nearly 200 years ago, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow asserted “Music is…
Columbia researchers invent a new way to tune the properties of 2D materials by adjusting the twist angle between them; technology enables the development of…
Some silicone masks are now so realistic they can easily be mistaken for real faces, new research suggests. Hyper-realistic masks are made from flexible materials…
Building materials that clean themselves could save immense time and labor in homes and businesses, as well as reduce disease risk in settings such as…
Study of US data shows persistent social norms about male breadwinning can harm men’s mental health. Husbands are least stressed when their wives earn up…