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Researchers have analyzed the interconnected food, water and energy challenges that arise from the sugar industry in India – the second-largest producer of sugar worldwide – and how the political economy drives those challenges.

The virus causing the COVID-19 pandemic, SARS-CoV-2, presents at least six strains. Despite its mutations, the virus shows little variability, and this is good news for the researchers working on a viable vaccine.

One of the immune system’s oldest branches, known as the complement system, may be influencing the severity of COVID-19, according to a new study.

Millions of new rapid coronavirus tests will be rolled out across NHS hospitals, care homes and labs from next week. Both tests will be able to detect COVID-19 and other winter viruses in just 90 minutes and will hugely increase testing capacity ahead of winter.

Researchers have been able to alter creatures’ lifespans by altering the activity of proteins found in roundworm cells that tell them to convert sugar into energy when their cellular energy is running low. Humans also have these proteins, offering up intriguing possibilities for developing longevity-promoting drugs.

Researchers spent four years studying a stretch of the Still River, once a hub of hat production, and found that the industrial waste of a century ago is still very much present in 2020.

Researchers have demonstrated a record setting quantum protocol for sharing a secret amongst many parties. The team created an 11-dimensional quantum state and used it to share a secret amongst 10 parties. By using quantum tricks, the secret can only be unlocked if the parties trust one another.

By analyzing urine samples and wastewater, researchers report how human exposure to bisphenols, once common in food containers, receipts and electronics, has changed over time in an Australian population.

Sometimes referred to by its Latin translation as the '"little brain"', the cerebellum is located close to the brainstem and sits under the cortex in the hindbrain. New research at San Diego State University, however, calls the "little" terminology into question.

Structures called primary cilia – which act like TV antennas for cells to detect signals – are present in fewer numbers in mice born with Fragile X syndrome, according to researchers from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio). Study results were published July 30 in the journal Stem Cell Reports.