scientific method

Electroculture gardening — the practice of using electrical currents or magnetic fields to boost plant growth — is being shared and discussed across small online communities, tagged alongside art, poetry and gardening content. Advocates see it as a low-cost, chemical-free way to improve yields, though scientific evidence remains limited and the technique is often grouped with alternative or experimental growing methods.

An MIT-trained engineer has spent five years applying scientific methods to rethink how humans experience smell, according to Inc. The work aims to bring a more rigorous, engineering-based approach to a sense that remains poorly understood compared with sight and hearing, with potential implications for fragrance and scent technology.