Science

The author of 'The Food Lab' shares his science-based kitchen techniques and current food quest.

Not only is alcohol consumed widely in nature, it may have played a role in human evolution.

Researchers found these dusty clumps of green and brown may be hiding how they get it on.

Lichens growing on gravestones appear immune to aging. What does their life cycle teach us about death?

Rocky algal rims offer new evidence of Croatia’s seismic past.

When it comes to marketing food, scent can be as important as flavor.

The world's oldest known cheese holds the key to kefir's mysterious origins.

Bull’s blood isn’t poisonous; so why did people think it was for centuries?

The asteroid that exploded over Luzon was not a threat—but it was a victory for our planetary defense systems.

When nature’s rarest color shows up in food, it elicits a range of reactions.

The International Space Station is the first permanent human settlement in space—and the perfect setting to understand how our species might create culture off-planet.