What you throw away in the kitchen could matter more in the garden. This everyday leftover plays a surprising role in soil ...

Spring is the best time to prune hoya plants, as this is when they enter their growth cycle, says Adam Peters, houseplant and annuals coordinator of Platt Hill Nursery. Pruning hoya promotes fuller, ...

On a battered rock in an ancient Martian riverbed, a pattern of dark, rounded patches has jolted planetary science. These ...

In the last century, synthetic fertilizers have changed the face of the planet. The current world population might be halved ...

Seeing plastic trash while hiking inspired a Rutgers chemist to rethink why synthetic plastics last forever while natural ...

Living cells pay a hidden energy price not just to run chemical reactions, but to keep them on track and block all the ...

There are "costs of life" that mechanical physics cannot calculate. A clear example is the energy required to keep specific ...

The extreme hot and dry conditions of 2023 reduced soil respiration and enhanced net forest carbon sequestration in Canada, offsetting wildfire emissions, according to satellite-based and in situ ...