Hydrogels can capture vapor from the air to water plants. Now scientists have infused them with slow-release fertilizers as well.

Many believe one way to feed the world is to move our crops indoors where they’ll be shielded from the vagaries of weather, pests, and disease. Yet this type of farming requires large amounts of ...

Chemical engineers made the new portable device by mimicking two natural processes: Simple evaporation and condensation and the transport of water from plant roots to the leaves.

In the middle of the 19 th century, millions of wild passenger pigeons were slaughtered each year in the United States to ...

Reconductoring has been mostly overlooked in the United States—until now. A new study finds the potential for billions of ...

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

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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 ...