Biologists are confronting a problem they thought they had mostly solved: what, exactly, counts as life. A wave of ...

Biologists mapping the human microbiome expected to find new bacteria and viruses, not entities that slip through every ...

This common item is responsible for 25% of all microplastic pollution — and it's worse than we thought. A recent study found high levels of two potentially deadly chemicals in human urine. The study ...

Recent years have seen growing scrutiny and debate around processed foods, but researchers have struggled to pin down what aspects of food processing are most relevant to health. Now, scientists have ...

Last year, researchers at Michigan State discovered two new truffle species. The truffles — a type of fungi found across the globe and revered as rare culinary delicacies — have since been studied by ...