If the U.S. wants to start using wood pellets to produce energy, either the government or power customers will have to pay an extra cost, a new University of Georgia study has found

Yams are a staple part of the Nigerian diet, with Nigeria accounting for around 70% of world yam production, but at current rates of consumption demand is beginning to outstrip supply

A rapid and highly sensitive fingerprint test has been developed that can take just seconds to confirm whether someone has used cocaine

With an urgent need to better understand climate to predict how it will shift with more heat-trapping gases, scientists are developing new tools to measure waters below where satellites can penetrate

New approach blocks key growth enzyme as well as the process that causes resistance to current treatments

New findings reinforce recent research that suggests cultures with plant-based diets tend to have lower colon cancer rates than cultures with meat-based diets

Michigan State University biometric expert Anil Jain and his team are working to solve the biggest problems facing fingerprint recognition systems today

LLNL will be part of a multi-lab effort to apply high-performance computing to U.S.-based industry's discovery, design, and development of materials for severe environments

Five-year study examined diet, weight of 373,000 Europeans across 10 countries

Model could pave the way for better, more efficient, and reliable tests of drugs to treat brain diseases

Berkeley Lab advance is first demonstration of efficient, light-powered production of fuel via artificial photosynthesis

Pearl millet genome sequence provides a resource to improve agronomic traits in extreme environments