In buildings with lots of people, CO2 emissions from human respiration is surprisingly high; a research team wondered if HVAC ...

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They have developed oncom-inspired foods such as a fermented patty made from oat milk waste and a cheese-like delicacy made ...

Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. An international subcommitte of geologists recently voted to reject a proposal to make the Anthropocene an official new geological epoch, defined by ...

The spread of the deadly white-nose syndrome, which has decimated U.S. bat populations in the Northeast and Midwest, appears ...

Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. Researchers have made near-transparent solar cells that are efficient enough to ...

A massive multi-country study suggests that simply closing the gap between the actual and perceived consensus moves the ...

Researchers grew chicken meat cells at four times the density they are grown in regular bioreactor systems—bringing it down ...

As rare butterfly populations dwindle, intensive efforts by people help some insects hold steady—or even increase population ...

In a world facing increasingly hot summers, cooling technologies can be life-savers. But cranking up air-conditioning only adds more planet-warming gases to the atmosphere. Researchers in China say ...

Zinc triggers a domino-like effect in the genetic machinery of some crops, prompting them to take up more nitrogen from the soil.