A new study has found that most plants are extremely sensitive to touch, and even a light touch can significantly stunt their growth.

Thousands of consumer products made from recycled materials confirmed radioactive.

Oil company provided tapes made by a drug trafficker in case against Ecuadorean peasants.

Doctors are seeing up to 15 times as many chronic deformities in infants.

The hip Scandinavian superstore becomes the latest company affected by the broadening scandal.

The winds and waves of Hurricane Sandy spilled enough sewage to match BP's oil spill more than 50 times over.

In some cities, glass recyclables aren't being recycled at all.

Bonnaroo's food waste program gets food to those who need it most and composts the rest.

An item you need may be for sale in your own neighborhood — at a price way less than retail.

Breathe new life into hard-to-recycle junk with these innovative solutions.

Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Blake McFarland says he just wants to make cool things.

The ReTuna mall in Eskilstuna provides a shining example of how the buy-use-dispose model can be turned on its head.

The fast-food chain is switching to paper straws later this year.

A large portion of the clothing you donate ends up in the landfill. Here's why — and what you can do about it.

We may be able to hack our brains to solve problems while we sleep.

There's an 'urgent need' for rules governing the use of lab-grown brains.

The brain's impulsivity switch could be key to fighting obesity as well addiction and disease.

A new study suggests a serious expression could go a long way toward getting some serious work done.

By turning coffee waste into auto parts, this collaboration builds on the two companies' commitments to environmental stewardship.

What ever happened to that Internet of Things? We outsourced it.

Numerical palindromes can be read the same forwards and backwards.

As Norway's Lendbreen ice patch melts, an ancient highway is revealed.

The virtues of preparing a home-cooked meal for one's family has been extolled as the answer to all of our food problems, but is that realistic?

A recent U.K. case study focused on a teenage boy's highly restrictive diet, and how his junk food preferences led to permanent vision loss.

Sometimes cooking (and sometimes raw) is the best way to get the most nutrients from your favorite fruits and vegetables.

A study finds that a tomato's cancer-fighting properties are reduced when consumed with iron-rich food.

By playing and joking with young patients, Carrick makes going to the hospital a little less scary.

Learn how we help people interact in an environmentally friendly way

Dressing sharp can make you more productive, but it can make you think bigger too.

Gwyneth says you can 'technically' eat her beauty products. He breaks out the fast food to test her theory.

A new study turns the tables on the old "dumb blonde" stereotype.

Ditch those store-bought products with microbeads and make your own with natural exfoliants like poppy seeds, grits and salt.

The number of negative health reactions to cosmetic products reported to the FDA has skyrocketed, with the majority of complaints coming for hair products.

The ability of royal jelly to help heal wounds is yet another great reason to love (and save) the bees.

Visitors using improper footwear to hike the popular Cinque Terre along the Mediterranean will now face steep financial penalties.

Allbirds sustainable wool shoes are disrupting the footwear market with their low-carbon style.

From the fastest to the heaviest, there are some impressive flying creatures in the animal kingdom, including birds, fish and snakes.

Amateur photographer Steve Biro takes a riveting photo of a bald eagle and his mirror image.

Thanks to an abundance of beech seeds, so far this year 150 orange-fronted parakeet chicks have been born in the wild in New Zealand.

White ravens are spotted occasionally on Vancouver Island, but they don't seem to stay for long.

A great horned owl is rescued from the ashes of the Maria Fire in California.

A massive bald eagle is filmed in slow motion taking off from a street in Melrose, near Boston.

Passing someone a sexually transmitted infection is viewed as worse than giving them the flu — even if the flu turns out to be fatal, a new study finds.

When we come down with the flu, we might think the worst is over after a week of a sore throat and body aches. But such viral infections may have lasting, unsee

While research on the lab-altered H5N1 virus that can be transmitted between mammals in laboratories is put on hold, scientists are debating how to balance bios

Bird flu can be transmitted between mammals — and possible humans — needing only four mutations to do so, a new study published this week in the journal Nat

Could H1N1 have a bright side? New research leads to encouraging steps forward in the fight against flu.

For about four months beginning in September 2011, 162 dead or dying harbor seals washed up along the New England coast. Most were pups, under 6 months old, and

Experiments to determine how the H5N1 bird flu virus might gain the ability to spread easily among humans are no longer off limits.

A fungal infection called Valley Fever is on the rise in the Southwest United States.