Crops increasingly need to thrive in a broader range of conditions, including drought, salinity, and heat. Traditional plant ...

A large study has revealed that dozens of widely used chemicals can damage beneficial gut bacteria. Many of these substances, ...

Scientists in China have performed an experiment first proposed by Albert Einstein almost a century ago when he sought to ...

Link found between super-agers, or people with exceptional longevity, to inherited DNA from Ice Age hunter-gatherer ...

A new CRISPR breakthrough shows scientists can turn genes back on without cutting DNA, by removing chemical tags that act ...

Scientists are testing the ancient herb borage to see which healing claims hold up and where modern evidence still falls ...

The world’s oceans are becoming dangerously acidic. A controversial proposal would raise the pH — by mixing chemicals into ...

Impacts of biological amendments, including waste-derived amendments that underpin soil health and agricultural ...

Higher intake of certain food preservatives, common in processed foods, may be linked to a modest increase in cancer risk.

Many home cooks view “from scratch” with a mixture of awe and terror. The phrase summons images of sweating over a hot stove ...

A genetic mutation passed from mother to children in families affected by schizophrenia has now been shown to completely ...

Researchers at the University of St Andrews have revealed that they have found a key to unlocking an 80-year-old chemical ...