At a potluck, you ate the best chocolate chip cookie—golden-brown, thick and chewy. Unfortunately, you don't know who made the cookie to get the recipe from, so you decide to recreate it. Using ...

(Isabel Pavia/Moment/Getty Images) Worldwide peanut production results in more than 10 million tons of waste piling up each year in the form of discarded shells – but now scientists have discovered a ...

A new “magic mushroom” compound may deliver psychedelic brain benefits without the trip. Psilocybin, the psychoactive ingredient in “magic mushrooms,” is attracting increasing interest from scientists ...

There’s no bulletproof remedy for a hangover, but a nutrition scientist explains which foods could aid symptoms after one has had too much to drink ...

Researchers have synthesized millimetre-scale hexagonal diamond, a crystal structure so elusive that many physicists doubted ...

After recently writing about Singularity in this column, I felt it was time to address the elephant in the room – the difference between Artificial Intelligence and Human Consciousness in the Age of ...

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory used artificial intelligence to analyze protein nanoribbons, pointing to ...

Climate change is one of the most pressing global challenges in the present times. Increasing carbon dioxide (CO2) ...

Researchers engineered a two-strain microbial system that converts PET-derived terephthalic acid into levodopa, overcoming key bottlenecks in transport and enzyme inhibition. The proof-of-concept ...

Physicists just discovered a brand-new particle that appears to be an exotic cousin to the protons and neutrons that make up ...

The database of 200 million protein-structure predictions now includes homodimers, adding new biological relevance.

A sample collected by the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft from the spinning top-like asteroid contained the nucleobases adenine, ...