Analyzing the chemistry of some ancient teeth has revealed what human ancestors were eating around 3 million years ago.

A new analysis of data from the PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) reveals fresh evidence that collisions of even very small nuclei with large ones might create tiny ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an advisory Thursday urging health care workers treating patients ...

A study published in Science by the Champalimaud Foundation reveals a surprising new role for the immune system. During ...

Most Americans are unknowingly exposed to harmful substances every day. UVA professor Bryan Berger investigates how to reduce ...

Sometimes referred to as the “winter vomiting bug,” noroviruses are the leading cause of foodborne illness in the state for ...

Ice cream has a simple ingredient list – just cream and sugar, but as anyone who’s tried to make it knows, this frozen dessert can easily become a sticky, icy mess. Food scientist Douglas Goff ...

Microplastics have been detected in a wide variety of household and food items, with a doctor warning they could be ...

A research team identified the brain's food-specific memory system and its direct role in overeating and diet-induced obesity. They found a specific population of neurons in the mouse brain that ...