Composting is an awesome way to get rid of fruit and veggie scraps and gain rich garden soil. Yet there’s still many food scraps that can’t be composted, like meat and bones. Compostec’s Green Cone ...

Color vision in humans and other Old World primates depends on differences in the absorption properties of three spectral types of cone photoreceptors. Primate cones are linked by gap junctions, but ...

Residents in Leicestershire are being offered the chance to digest their food waste at home under an innovative scheme being rolled out by the county council. Leicestershire county council is offering ...

In Montpelier, Vt., what people dump into cafeteria trash cans and kitchen wastebaskets helps farmers grow food. Some food scraps from schools and businesses wind up on a farm that feeds the ...

A London borough is pioneering a new green method to get rid of household waste. The Green Cone, being promoted by Islington, is said to cut a household's landfill waste by up to 30per cent. Using the ...

Humans rely on sight, which is primarily mediated by three color-sensing cone types, to perceive the world in a kaleidoscope of hues. Blue cones develop earliest, followed by the morphologically ...