Remember Theranos, the company that promised to revolutionize longevity by making health data instantly available from blood collected from a finger prick, allowing for “alerts” to make lifestyle ...

I n an office block in south London a chef was trying hard to prove that vegan cheese wasn’t disgusting. Violife, a brand ...

Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) have developed a solid polymer coated with harmless viruses to detect the bacteria Salmonella enterica (S. enterica), an advance that could lead to ...

Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) have developed a solid polymer coated with harmless viruses to detect ...

The Pennekamp Elementary School Science Fair is the only one in the Manhattan Beach Unified School District’s four elementary ...

The human gut harbors a complex ecosystem of trillions of microorganisms (the microbiome), which influences digestion, the ...

An almost unkillable fungal strain isolated from NASA’s ultrasterile clean rooms hints at “critical gaps” in interplanetary ...

Washing your hands is a given if you want to avoid germs—but it's especially important after touching these microbe magnets.

Atlantan Eric Mack's love of artmaking is matched only by his love of growing plants. Twice a month, Mack stages plant sale ...

A startup that grew out of the University of Massachusetts Amherst food science department, BactiSee, won the top prize of ...

Have you ever chopped onions and felt those stinging tears, only to ugly-cry later over a sad movie?Tears might seem just ...

Researchers from McMaster University merged two compounds — the newly-found corbomycin and the lesser-known complestatin — to examin ...