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 ...

From climate-smart rice to microbial factories and cancer-fighting bots, the Tata Transformation Prize winners think small to ...

Scientists are finally tracing, step by step, how bacteria strip down and rebuild steroid molecules into compounds that look a lot like modern drugs. By mapping these microbial assembly lines in the ...

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 ...

Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence Balance of the Microverse at the University of Jena and the Leibniz-HKI, together ...

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 ...