In 2019 alone, the US generated 66 million tons of food waste. The majority of that waste (60 percent) ended up in landfills.

Study of rotting human cadavers hints that a puzzling chemical marker in Neanderthal remains could be from eating the larvae.

The most significant molecules found are ethylene glycol and glyconitrize—both of which are ingredients for compounds in DNA ...

Complex organic molecules found floating around a distant protostar could mean that space is far richer in life's precursors ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have found complex organic molecules—key ingredients for life—around a young star ...

Tentative detections of life-linked molecules in a star’s disk suggest planets may form with the ingredients for life already ...

Co-author Dr. Tushar Suhasaria, head of MPIA’s Origins of Life Lab, said: “We recently found ethylene glycol could form by UV ...

In the 1950s, Stanley Miller and Nobel laureate Harold Urey conducted experiments at the University of Chicago in which they ...

A larger than life Cofi chef is aiming to be big Down Under after his recipes went viral. BAFTA Cymru winner and fire-chef ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

The Universe’s most abundant ice isn’t formless—it’s secretly laced with crystals. And that might change how we think about ...

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array has detected methanol isotopes around a nearby star, which could help explain why the ingredients for life are present on Earth.