Beef production is largely responsible for greenhouse gas emissions from the food system.
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This biochemist is determined to create a new life form by reversing the shape of molecules.
Genes are sometimes called the “blueprint of life,” but that doesn’t make them the behavioral playbook.
ÄIO’s fermentation process creates healthy, sustainable oils and fats by upcycling low-value industry organics.
Plants at room temperature show properties we had only seen near absolute zero.
Fossil Cycad National Monument held America’s richest deposit of petrified cycadeoid plants, until it didn’t.
All biological systems are wildly disordered. Yet somehow, that disorder enables plant photosynthesis to be nearly 100% efficient.
We need more data centers for AI. Developers are getting creative about where to build them.
Quantum physics is starting to show up in unexpected places. Indeed, it is at work in animals, plants, and our own bodies.
Civil engineer Martin Lebek has a brilliant plan to redress the world’s phosphorus imbalance.
“I want to change the way we think about the past altogether,” says Dr. Betül Kaçar, an astrobiologist who studies the origin of life.
Pain relievers like acetaminophen and ibuprofen are made with chemicals derived from oil. Scientists have shown how to make them from trees.
A long view of biological survival might point us to new possibilities for finding life elsewhere in the Universe.
It’s an agricultural moonshot: Scientists hope to increase plant yields by hacking photosynthesis, the process that powers life on Earth.
It is generally ineffective, occasionally poisonous, and driving numerous species to the brink of extinction.
Decades ago, a disaster left three million acres of land uninhabitable and killed between 85,600 and 240,000 people. Chernobyl? No. Banqiao dam in China.
It’s sustainable, nutritious and delicious. Scientists need to ramp up efforts to meet this urgent need.
Scientists agree that eons ago, a bacterium took up residence inside another cell and became its powerhouse, the mitochondrion. But there are competing theories about the birth of other organelles such as the nucleus and endoplasmic reticulum.
We want to fight invasive species. But to wage a war, you have to know who your enemy is.
The primary causes of global climate change are all due to human activity. Adding aerosols to our atmosphere only exacerbates the problem.
A radical proposal reimagines Europe as a carbon-neutral continent where national boundaries are replaced by regions defined by renewable energy capabilities.
Plagues, war, and genocide were literally frozen in time.
The pattern 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, etc., is the Fibonacci sequence. It shows up all over nature. But what’s the full explanation behind it?
Brian C. Muraresku, New York Times best-selling author of “The Immortality Key,” unpacks ancient evidence for the widespread ritual use of psychoactive plants.
Without even realizing it, we’ve actually become pretty god-like in our powers.
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At least one of Earth’s creatures is able to survive the vacuum of space.
Experiments on suborbital rockets are revealing how to make a better iron furnace.
