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Embedding enzymes in a solid mesh has formed a new method of creating biosensors for gas phase samples, helping rapid disease detection.

One of the most serious threats to wheat crops is aphids, but wild wheat has at least two defense methods against insect pests, including a poison.

According to a study, all home delivery options for grocery shopping produced lower emissions than driving an internal-combustion-engine pickup truck to a store for in-store shopping.

Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have created a new COVID-19 therapeutic that could one day make treating SARS-CoV-2 infections as easy as using a nasal spray for allergies.

New research suggests that people with elevated levels of the protein prostasin, which is mainly found in epithelial cells which line the surfaces and organs of the body, may be at higher risk of developing diabetes or dying from cancer.

According to a study, almost 90% of people living with opioid use disorder are not receiving medications proven to reduce opioid overdoses by more than 50%.

The immune boosting benefits of a tuberculosis vaccine can be seen in infants more than one year after vaccination, according to a new study.

Researchers have developed a flexible, stretchable computing chip that processes information by mimicking the human brain.

Using an inexpensive polymer called melamine, chemists have created a cheap, easy and energy-efficient way to capture carbon dioxide from smokestacks.

A popular hypothesis that the human brain shrunk around 3,000 years ago during the transition to modern societies has been called into question in a recent review of the data used to construct the hypothesis.