Background The food industry today is returning to natural foods after emphasizing the
processed products due to the higher consumer demand for foods which are well …

The emerging novel power generation technology of triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs)
is attracting increasing attention due to its unlimited prospects in energy harvesting and self …

Electricity, the interaction between electrically charged objects, is widely known to be
fundamental to the functioning of living systems. However, this appreciation has largely …

Ambient levels of nonionizing electromagnetic fields (EMF) have risen sharply in the last five
decades to become a ubiquitous, continuous, biologically active environmental pollutant …

Pollination is critical for the production of many crops, and both insect-and wind-based
pollination systems are increasingly disrupted by bloom asynchrony, weather events, and …

Biodiversity strengthens the productivity of any ecosystem (agricultural land, forest, lake,
etc.). The loss of biodiversity contributes to food and energy insecurity; increases …

When one thinks of airborne organisms, spiders do not usually come to mind. However,
these wingless arthropods have been found 4 km up in the sky [1], dispersing hundreds of …

Most terrestrial animals naturally accumulate electrostatic charges, meaning that they will
generate electric forces that interact with other charges in their environment, including those …

Pollinator nutrition is a highly complex subject that we are just starting to unravel, from the
multidimensional nature of bee forage (pollen and nectar) to how the abiotic environment …

The globally changing climatic condition is increasing the incidences of drought in several
parts of the world. This is predicted and already shown to not only impact plant growth and …