An international team of researchers finds that fewer coffee beans, ground more coarsely, is the key to a drink that is cheaper to make, more consistent from shot to shot, and just as strong

Researchers created a green living material that demonstrates similar strength to cement-based mortar

Researchers have shown for the first time that some birds—and specifically African grey parrots—are helpful in the same way that humans and other great apes are

In a recently-published review, researchers describe how ancestral origins impact the likelihood that people of African or Eurasian descent might develop immune-related diseases

The ability to select for traits that are brought about by multiple genes—rather than genetic diseases caused by a single mutation—is more far off and complicated than most people probably realize

While solar cells are an efficient source of renewable energy during the day, there is currently no similar renewable approach to generating power at night

Structural, functional, and neurophysiological comparisons between us and macaque monkeys show that this difficulty in stopping reactive responses is similar in our primate counterparts

This method of surveying animal populations is most applicable when studying the charismatic megafauna that tourists are usually interested in, and in areas with established tourism programs

The topic of whether plants can think, learn, and intentionally choose their actions has been under debate since the establishment of plant neurobiology as a field in 2006

Although the organoids aren't actually "thinking," the researchers' new tool--which detects neural activity using organoids--could provide a method for understanding human brain function

DNA of 13th century Crusaders shows that there's more to learn about who the Crusaders were and their interactions with other populations