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New findings suggest that diet is a major contributor for the increased risk of hypertension in black compared to white Americans.

Research has suggested that more work is needed to show that digital forensic methods are robust enough to stand-up to interrogation in a court of law.

The breast gland also has a microbiome, and like the gut microbiome, it too can be affected by diet.

Research will help law enforcers learn more from juvenile and infant remains in order to help bring perpetrators to justice.

When crime lab chemists handle evidence that contains illegal drugs, trace amounts of those drugs are inevitably released into the laboratory environment and can result in detectable background levels of drugs in the lab. Now scientists have developed a protocol for measuring those levels.

Cash-strapped environmental regulators have a powerful and cheap new weapon. Machine learning methods could more than double the number of violations detected.

Glyphosate, the active herbicidal ingredient in widely used weed killers, was present at low levels in a variety of dog and cat foods.

Scientists have boosted a carbon-craving enzyme called RuBisCO to turbocharge photosynthesis in corn which could improve agricultural efficiency and yield.

Green algae are expected to survive climate change, thanks to hardy genes they stole from bacteria.

Nanoparticles derived from green mango peel could be the key to remediating oil sludge in contaminated soil.