While it sounds counterintuitive, there's growing research about how exposing ourselves to short, sharp bouts of stress can ...

A new study has revealed a surprising wrinkle in our understanding of how pesticides affect bumble bees across the seasons.

It’s a biological phenomenon known as hormesis or hormetic stress and, simply put, is the principle that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger… up to a point. That’s because there's a ...

The effects of pesticide exposure on pollinator health may be more complicated than originally thought, according to a team of researchers in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences who recently ...

This phenomenon of hormesis—when low doses of a normally fatal toxin actually benefit an insect—is poorly understood in pollinators, and these short-term benefits often come at a cost ...

What makes hormesis so remarkable is that the adaptation doesn’t just ready you for the particular stressor, e.g. cold water swimming, it prepares you, both mentally and physically, for other ...

The integration of the hormesis concept with NO donors is likely to become a valuable practical general strategy to enhance plant productivity across a wide range of valuable plant species facing ...