As a professional gardener, I’m always seeking out new ways to feed my plants. I have steeped nettles in old buckets to brew a nitrogen-rich foliar feed, hoarded banana skins from the trash for a ...

It's probably not the tastiest, but powdered protein you can grow in transit could help astronauts stay healthy on long-haul ...

Turning air and astronaut urine into a meal may sound like science fiction, but it’s a serious proposal from European ...

No extra calcium required to make teeth. Aug. 1, 2013— -- Did you think repurposing feces for better digestive health was kind of weird? A team of scientists at the Guangzhou Institutes of ...

The ESA will be testing a protein powder called Solein, which contains a compound found in urine, on a mission aboard the ISS ...

Many people have peed in a plastic cup at the doctor’s office or on a stick at home. One standard test looks for sugar in the urine to diagnose diabetes. Another flags human chorionic gonadotropin, a ...

Ongoing advances in tissue engineering are pushing the boundaries of what scientists can regenerate. Most recently, the development of tooth-like structures from stem cells in human urine has garnered ...

A grantee of the Gates Foundation, Hong Kong-based Phase Scientific built a business on the back of Covid-19 tests. Up next: using urine to compete with industry ‘gold standard’ HPV screening methods.