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What goes into making plants taste good? For scientists in MIT’s Media Lab, it takes a combination of botany, machine-learning algorithms, and some good old-fashioned chemistry.

In a study funded by the National Institutes of Health, West Virginia University neuroscientists linked white light at night—the kind that typically illuminates hospital rooms—to inflammation, brain-cell death and higher mortality risk in cardiac patients. 

A groundbreaking two-year study in southern Oregon found greater abundance and diversity of wild bees in areas that experienced moderate and severe forest fires compared to areas with low-severity fires.

Thetford Forest is a unique 47,000-acre landscape straddling the border of Norfolk and Suffolk in the East of England.

A key characteristic of liver cancer, which affects more than 1 million people worldwide each year, is that it is more common in men than in women.