Not all meat is created equal: How diet changes can sustain world's food production

If you wanted to really mess with the world’s food production, a good place to start…

Key enzyme found in plants could guide development of medicines and other products

Plants can do many amazing things. Among their talents, they can manufacture compounds that help them…

Video: How much does a cloud weigh?

Imagine 300 midsize cars floating above your head—that’s how much your average fluffy cloud weighs. …

Marine plastic pollution hides a neurological toxin in our food

In the mid-1950s, domesticated cats in Minamata, Japan mysteriously began to convulse and fall into the…

Should the international community protect the Amazon?

If Brazil won’t stop them, then perhaps others should step in? Click here for…

In a twist, Colorado asks EPA to lower state's air rating

Colorado took the unusual step of inviting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to downgrade the air…

Putin rebukes officials over space delays

President Vladimir Putin on Thursday gave a dressing down to space officials on a visit to…

Evidence suggests rare deer lived 50 years beyond 'extinction'

A rare deer species that lived in central Thailand might have come back from the dead—without…

Combating prison recidivism with plants

A study out of Texas State University attempted to determine the number of available horticultural community…

How to spin a disk around young protostars

How do stars and planets form? Scientists are now one step closer to pinning down the…