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Helping to promote the natural relationship between plants and bacteria could reduce reliance on environmentally damaging fertilisers, a study has found.

The largest association of physicians in the US has announced a new policy that aims to clarify how doctors use the body mass index (BMI) measure in medicine. The report suggests that BMI should be used in conjunction with other measures, given its inability to consider individual factors.

Science does not take a deep enough look at chemicals in the environment as one of the causes of the decline in biodiversity.

Up to half of consumers may decide to pour perfectly good milk down the drain based solely on their glance at the date label on the carton, a new study suggests.

Using coupled climate model simulations,researchers have found that anthropogenic aerosols and greenhouse gases have played distinct roles in the world’s oceans in shaping their patterns of heat uptake, redistribution, and storage.

It’s easy to think of trees as part of the landscape. But what if the trees were the landscape? That’s what a new study by a researcher at the University of Georgia asks us to imagine.

Inspired by the morphing skins of chameleons, engineers have developed capillary-controlled robotic flapping fins for use in multipixel displays that are 1,000 times more energy efficient than LEDs.

Ticks can be attracted across air gaps several times larger than themselves by the static electricity that their hosts naturally accumulate.

Scientists have discovered that a naturally occurring molecule reduces the biofilms that produce plaque and cavities by 90%.

Exploding populations of wild pigs and macaque monkeys in Southeast Asia are threatening native forests and disease outbreaks in livestock and people.