Microgreens are tender, immature plants and herbs that take only a week or two to grow before they're ready for harvesting

Robots and prosthetics are becoming ever more human-like, but the electronic skins designed to enhance their usefulness don't yet have the full range of tactile senses that we have

The rising price of lithium has spurred a search for alternatives for batteries

The researchers say the findings could be used to develop appropriate policies to protect infants from exposure to potentially toxic chemicals found in teethers

The shrinking list of approved preservatives is having unintended consequences

Existing retroreflectors are usually made with glass microbeads and microprisms

Out of the thousands of metabolites detected, the study identified three that could serve as indicators of fatigue

The commitment by these two global chemistry publishers will enable both societies to provide unambiguous designation of author names within chemistry and across the broader sciences

The chemistry behind how comets might have seeded life on Earth

The researchers analyzed the nutritional value of 12 fast-, moderate-, and slow-cooking dry bean cultivars from four classes

New way to preserve blood could make blood-bank supplies last longer and potentially save more lives 

 The surprising relationship between ocean spray, bacteria, and the weather

Bacteria can convert mercury, which occurs naturally in the soil, to methylmercury when the land is flooded, such as when dams are built for hydroelectric power generation

Researchers have developed a new, portable breath analyzer that could someday help doctors diagnose diabetes noninvasively in the office

Because such devices are made of common scrap metal, they would be inexpensive and could help shift some of the energy storage burden from a centralized model to a localized one, the researchers say