The DNA in a single cup of water can track wildlife, monitor pollution and survey pathogens in waterways and their ...

Water contaminants span a wide range of biological and chemical agents, which makes effective wastewater treatment essential ...

Increasing evidence suggests that there is no safe amount of alcohol a person can consume. Three recent studies indicate any ...

Debates over the presence of microplastics in the human body highlight the challenge of studying something simultaneously ...

Americans should limit their alcohol consumption to no more than one drink per day, according to a study published Tuesday in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. Subscribe to read this story ...

The Human Bean is rolling out three brand-new drinks to celebrate the USA’s 250th birthday. The star of the show? A first-ever collaboration with OLIPOP, the brand that created the functional soda ...

The government’s promised overhaul of New Zealand’s public service has made much of the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline operations and compensate for a radically reduced ...

Today on Weird History Food, we are examining something that may just make you thirsty... Today, we are examining drinks - Yes, the OG drink was plain old water, but, what did people start drinking ...

For much of my life, my mother’s side of the family—consummate New Englanders, some of them descended from a passenger on the Mayflower—seemed somewhat foreign to me. My father’s side, Russian Jews ...

New research identifies southeast Georgia as one of the earliest regions to cultivate bread wheat, with radiocarbon-dated grains from 5922 to 5747 B.C.E. — offering the oldest known physical evidence ...

Bread and wine are two things that, for the most part, humans have agreed are delicious for quite some time. In fact, according to new research, we may have been agreeing about this for at least 8,000 ...

Evidence from two Neolithic sites in modern-day Georgia includes bread wheat grains radiocarbon dated to nearly 6000 B.C.E., among the earliest ever identified. Stacey Leasca is an award-winning ...