Melatonin, a sleep aid for humans, is known to keep fruits and vegetables fresh longer. Now scientists have come up with a ...

A new study in Panama found that entrusting forests to Indigenous inhabitants may be a more effective conservation strategy ...

A new study looks systematically for what works—and what doesn’t—to overcome psychological barriers that keep people stuck in ...

Farmed at scale, seagrass meadows could produce grain in quantities equivalent to 7% of global rice production, a new study finds.

Engineers have created steel-like wood by infusing it with iron, offering a climate-friendly alternative to concrete and ...

Known as crustose coralline algae or red algae, these species coat rocks much like lichen on an alpine cliff. They emit a ...

A new study suggests that the growing market for digital clothing could have some surprising consumer dynamics ...

Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. Researchers have employed an unlikely organism—fungi—to make a new type of biodegradable battery. The new 3D-printed fungal battery produces enough ...

Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. Replacing traditional plastics with those that degrade in the ocean would reduce harm to marine animals and the environment. And now, scientists at the Wood ...

Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. The clothing industry is an unfolding environmental disaster. The world dumps 92 million tons of textiles every year, most of which ends up in landfills or ...