Archaeological study is the first to identify a spud-bearing species native to the southwestern United States, Solanum jamesii, as an important part of ancient human diets

The technology could also enable a new class of devices that can be powered by harvesting energy from low-power sources, such as the body or the surrounding environment, researchers said

Study highlights poor reporting to the FDA of potentially harmful cosmetic products and calls for better data along with policy changes

Penn study findings point to increasing demand for new therapies such as fecal microbiota transplants

UBC research provides new clues to how trees adapt to a changing climate

A new technique has been developed to tackle illegal logging by pinpointing the wood's origin to a smaller area than ever before 

Purchasing a laboratory chiller isn't as easy as you think.

Researchers made the unexpected finding that bacteria that mutated to become resistant to quinolone antibiotics also became more resistant to triclosan

Some plant species are able to remove soil contaminants and grow normally, but these are a small minority

Overall, none of the hormones a research team studied had any replicable, consistent effect on study participants' cognition

Corrosive seawater encourages growth of rare minerals

Even in very warm years with a summer el Nino event, such as 1998, there was no massive coral bleaching in the Torres Strait and only small to moderate bleaching in the northern Great Barrier Reef