A chemical found in slightly burned food negatively affects human health. Scientists are constantly making new discoveries about the relationship between food and cancer.
Mark Zuckerberg said he wants to make sending money as easy as sending a photo. For the last year, Facebook has been signaling it wants in on the cryptocurrency phenomenon.
A list of 10 plants that attract dragonflies for mosquito control. Dragonflies are some of the best predators to keep mosquito populations low. Not only do they scavenge the skies in adulthood, but they eat large numbers of mosquito larvae in their larval form--which happens in the water.
A local diver found distinctively Neolithic pottery in the water around an artificial island. Artificial islands commonly known as crannogs dot hundreds of Scottish and Irish lakes and waterways.
Every time you use your intuition and trust it, it becomes stronger. So, if you're thinking, intuition has nothing to do with intelligence, then you're not alone.
China severely punishes those caught smuggling or trafficking drugs, including foreigners. Beijing's leading drug enforcement body has blamed the legalization of marijuana in Canada and parts of the United States for a spike in the amount of drugs smuggled into the country, describing it as a "new threat to China.
Lack of sleep can cause early death, cancer, stroke and more according to studies. The effects of sleep deprivation can have serious consequences on your health.
This experiment either proves that dogs can spot a liar or that dogs have major trust issues. Dogs can smell fear, but can they sniff out the truth? Your dog might actually be smarter than you're giving it credit for.
Another of the estimated 50,000 Guinness World Records has been broken and it happened this month when 633 scuba divers scooped up trash from the ocean floor near the Deerfield Beach International Fishing Pier.
Millions of years ago, a volcano erupted in what's now the Patagonia region of southern Argentina, leaving behind a huge caldera. Water accumulated in the crater, and eventually it became a lake teeming with countless plants, insects, and other life-forms. Over time, these creatures fossilized deep within the lake's layers of mud and ash, creating a kind of geological jackpot for today's paleontologists.
The bald eagle is the United States of America's symbol as it represents freedom and independence. However, ironically, bald eagles are disappearing all over the country.
The device is called "WeDew," an abbreviation for wood-to-energy deployed water system. Two California designers have won a 1. 5 million dollar prize after building a shipping container that can harvest water from air.
The time to make a change is upon us, action is the only solution. Few people have had the chance to find themselves on the cusp of a truly historic transformation.
Our food production depends heavily on pollinators. The majority of flowering plants are pollinated by insects and other animals. It has been estimated that the proportion of animal-pollinated wild plant species rises from an average of 78 percent in temperate-zone communities to 94 percent in tropical communities.
A crisis for biodiversity also risks becoming a major humanitarian challenge. Billions of people worldwide - especially the world's poorest- rely on healthy oceans to provide livelihoods, jobs and food and the range of goods and services that flow from coastal and marine environments.
Preventing degradation is much cheaper in the long run than permitting it. Land degradation is the persistent reduction of the capacity of the land to support both biodiversity and human needs.