This year’s recipient of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement talks about “punk science,” microbial economics and thinking like a mycorrhizal fungus.

Allergen Alert got my attention at CES. The company, a spin-off of global diagnostics firm, bioMérieux, is trying to make eating out safer for people with food allergies. The company offers a portable ...

For people with food sensitivities, dining out can be a hassle at best and dangerous at worst. But soon, a new portable gadget the size of a mass-market paperback could allow you to quickly test meals ...

A person goes to the emergency room in the U.S. every 10 seconds over an allergic reaction to food. Could this gadget bring the numbers down? Reading time 3 minutes This past summer, a waiter at a ...

What if, instead of taking a water or soil sample to the lab, you could take the lab to the sample? That's what a team of researchers reporting in ACS Sensors did with a new nitrate-monitoring "lab-on ...

We love a small fluff baby. And that's one of the reasons why we love a recently published TikTok video. The video comes from TikTok user @yellowlab.maisy and, as the name suggests, features a yellow ...

If you’ve been thinking about getting into 3D printing but don’t want a giant machine taking over your desk, this deal is right in the sweet spot. The Bambu Lab A1 mini 3D printer is on sale for ...

In a little over ten years, organoid models – miniature, lab-grown clusters of cells that imitate real organs – have transformed how we study human development and disease while accelerating drug ...

The company that pioneered small launch has had a big year. Rocket Lab broke its annual launch record with the Electron booster—17 successful missions this year, and counting—and is close to bringing ...

In 2017, Ashley Moffett, a reproductive immunologist, walked to the pharmacy near her laboratory at the University of Cambridge, UK, to buy a pregnancy test. But it wasn’t for Moffett. Her postdoc, ...