NASA is inviting the public to take part in 36 “citizen science” projects that let volunteers contribute to real scientific discoveries.

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A team of researchers from Kent have demonstrated that it is possible to grow tea in lunar soil as part of a wider field of ...

Heating alone won’t drive soil microbes to release more carbon dioxide — they need added carbon and nutrients to thrive. This finding challenges assumptions about how climate warming influences soil ...

Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have been awarded a $3 million National Science Foundation grant to ...

Some plants and fungi naturally resemble meat. But scientists and entrepreneurs are going a step further to design an even meatier plant-based alternative. Sulphur shelf mushrooms—also called "chicken ...

FOR MORE than a decade the Tamaya power station in the Atacama desert in northern Chile powered its local region using diesel. Today a shimmering array of solar panels stands in place of the dirty ...

The science pros at The King of Random create a dramatic reaction by mixing hot water and dry ice in a plant pot. I Tracked Down The Girls Who Bullied Me As A Kid. Here's What They Had To Say. Bear ...

Italian Scientific Experiments on Starship According to the ASI officials, the payloads include “a plant growth experiment, a meteorological monitoring station and a radiation sensor”. The plant ...

Later this summer, a fluorescent reddish-pink spiral will bloom across the Wilkinson Basin in the Gulf of Maine, about 40 miles northeast of Cape Cod. Scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic ...

There are more than a hundred ways to prepare a potato, and thousands of stories have begun with a shot of vodka distilled from this tuber. For centuries, the potato has been instrumental in feeding ...