A massive global analysis found that nitrogen pollution can either speed up or dramatically slow the natural "breathing" of ...

A medication long used to help people breathe may soon help protect the liver as well. Researchers at the Medical University ...

Antibiotic resistance continues to push modern medicine into dangerous territory. In hospitals around the world, infections ...

Photosynthesis is one of the most important processes on Earth. It is the method by which green plants, algae, and some ...

A first dive into the ocean became a lesson in pressure, breath and survival. From compressed air and collapsing pressure ...

Yadid Ayzenberg, who led the development of the sleep earbuds for the audio company Bose, has now launched his own ...

Herman Miller is introducing a new Aeron chair that uses recycled nylon, bio-based plastics, and a lighter aluminum base to ...

A new study in Nature Communications finds a critical climate tipping point in Tibetan permafrost ecosystems. Warming of 2–4 ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral population in Africa. By analyzing genetic data from diverse modern African ...

Glucose can used as a substrate and broken down in plant cells by the process of respiration. The chemical energy released by respiration can be used by the plant for cellular activities such as ...

Arctic rivers are turning orange as thawing permafrost releases iron, disrupting ecosystems far beyond Alaska.

For Aristotle (384-322 BCE), all living things had a vegetative or nutritive soul; animals also had a sensitive soul; and humans, on top of that, had a rational soul. As a result, medieval theologians ...