Teens who gained excess weight showed less activity in the brain’s reward center when viewing or tasting foods with lots of fat.
A technique inspired by how cotton candy is spun could help produce lab-grown meat at a lower cost and on a bigger scale.
Lots of companies will now test DNA from people and their pets. How do these gene-sequencing techniques work? We explain.
The Japanese clouded salamander is an elusive beast. To find a new population, three teens turned to high-tech methods.
People who dine out have higher levels of certain potentially harmful pollutants in their bodies than do people who eat home-cooked meals, new data show.
Noroviruses make people vomit, but scientists didn’t actually know why. It now turns out that those viruses cause their misery by attacking special “tuft” cells in the gut.
DNA found in the mucus of orcas suggests that even though the traits of family pods may differ, these marine mammals all appear to belong to a single species.