Rosie on the House: Keeping your plants healthy
While occasional yellow leaves may be part of a plant’s natural growth cycle, widespread yellowing should prompt a…
New Antibiotic Found in Dirt Targets Superbugs in a Way ‘Never Been Seen Before’
Researchers have worried for decades that all the “low-hanging fruit” for new antibiotics have already been taken, leaving…
Never Grow Up’s The Monday Bar seeks to fill gaps in Indian functional bars
The Monday Bar was launched by Mumbai-based consulting firm Never Grow Up after years of observing that modern…
Soil at D.C. Golf Course Where East Wing Debris Was Dumped Contains Toxic Metals
Soil at a public golf course in Washington where the Trump administration dumped debris from the demolition of…
India bans ashwagandha leaf use in any form, industry reacts
Announcing the ban, the country’s Food Safety and Standards Authority (FSSAI) referred to schedule IV of the Health…
Night Soil, by Kristin Dombek
Illustrations by Matt Rota The architect’s wife was a real estate agent who’d gotten a tip about a…
GRU Space designs “the first hotel on the Moon”
San Francisco start-up GRU Space has released plans for a hotel on the moon clad in lunar regolith…
Sloping earthen roof tops Sekiyuan waiting area by Kurosawa Kawara-Ten
Local studio Kurosawa Kawara-Ten has completed a waiting area for the Sekiyuan tea room in Chiba, Japan, sheltering…
How to make compost through a long Alaska winter
Earthworm on compost. (Getty Images/iStock) The loyal reader knows that compost is my go-to for almost everything. I…
Glendale’s coolest gay club is a block-long parkway garden
The parkway garden sits on a commercial stretch of Glendale’s Brand Boulevard. It’s a modest patch of native…