"The brain microplastic paper is a joke." The post Wait… All Those Studies May Have “Detected” Microplastics in the Human ...

An expert review published in the Lancet in August called plastics a “grave, growing and underrecognised danger” to human and planetary health. It cited harm from the extraction of the fossil fuels ...

Exclusive: Some scientists say many detections are most likely error, with one high-profile study called a ‘joke’ ...

The complete genome of an ancient Egyptian has been sequenced, revealing genetic links between the Nile and Mesopotamia 5,000 ...

In a way, sequencing DNA is very simple: There's a molecule, you look at it, and you write down what you find. You'd think it would be easy—and, for any one letter in the sequence, it is. The problem ...

"Part 1 of the Santa Cruz Actors’ Theatre 8 Tens @ 8 Short Play Festival, as I discussed in my review, was fantastic; it had ...

Major studies on microplastics are now being called into question.

Farmers in the Sierra Nevada and Central Valley are discovering a distinct California tea terroir ...

Happy new year, readers! Thanks so much for your support throughout the fall. Here’s to another semester of albums! This week ...

Cold cosmic dust grains can link amino acids into protein‑like chains in deep space, suggesting life’s chemistry may begin ...

The complex building blocks of life can form spontaneously in space, a new lab experiment shows.

Researchers at the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA published a step-by-step framework for determining the ...