In the rolling highlands of Wanging’ombe district in Tanzania’s Njombe region, potato farming is more than a livelihood; it ...

Neuroticism, the personality trait that predisposes people to worry, moodiness and emotional volatility, has long been ...

A single strand of hair can hold a chemical diary of the body’s hormone output, and researchers in Istanbul have now turned ...

Salt is quietly strangling agriculture. As irrigation deposits sodium into farmland soils year after year, crops from wheat ...

In a development that could reshape how farmers protect cucurbit crops from one of their most persistent bacterial enemies, ...

For more than three decades, the dominant hypothesis in Alzheimer’s disease research has rested on a single idea: that the ...

Every year, coal mining leaves behind mountains of coal gangue, a rocky byproduct of mining, washing, and separation that ...

Two of the most widely used medicinal plants in South Asian traditional medicine may be stronger together than apart when it ...

Every shift in a busy tertiary hospital is a race against the clock, but new research from China suggests that the way nurses ...

When tobacco leaves are harvested, they are far from finished. Before they can be manufactured into a usable product, they ...

Schistosomiasis, a parasitic worm disease that afflicts hundreds of millions of people across Africa, Asia and South America, ...

Textile dyeing is one of the most polluting steps in the global fashion supply chain, and a new study suggests an old plant ...