Sweeteners such as aspartame, found in Equal packets, sucralose (Splenda), or sugar alcohols are often seen as healthier ...

New research reveals that sorbitol, a common sugar alcohol used in “low-calorie” foods, can behave much like fructose once ...

The microorganism, which now defines its own genus, species, and phylum, offers rare insight into how early eukaryotic life may have formed. Its structure and genetic markers reveal traces of ...

Nitrogen is a crucial component of proteins and nucleic acids, the fundamental building blocks of all living things, and thus is essential to life on Earth. Gaseous N2 from the atmosphere can be fixed ...

Small, cancer-associated DNA circles "hitchhike" on chromosomes during cell division to spread efficiently to daughter cells ...

Pomegranates are frequently referred to as a “superfruit,”-and more recent studies indicate they may, in fact, legitimately ...

At the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) campus in Nairobi, a diverse mix of journalists from Africa, Europe, ...

Plants do more than photosynthesize - some of them make gold. Scientists in Finland found gold particles inside Norway spruce ...

Maria Mozdzen grew up in rural Poland without indoor plumbing, and that experience shaped her path to leading water testing ...

Life on Earth began simply. For billions of years, tiny microbes ruled the planet. Then, one day in deep time, something changed. Cells gained a nucleus, built inner compartments and learned to ...

Bio-based, or biosynthetic fibers, are finding increasing applications in textiles because of their sustainable ...