In June 2018, Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft retrieved samples from asteroid Ryugu and successfully returned them to Earth. Researchers at Tohoku University have analysed the samples and identified what they believe may be the oldest solids from the solar system that have thus far become available for study.

Researchers have developed a novel way to detect whether a person follows a Mediterranean diet using a blood test and, applying this method, have shown that a Mediterranean diet is associated with lower risk of type 2 diabetes.

A collaboration between the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (Oist) and the Polytechnic University of Milan has found that when a fluid is pumped through a pipe in an intermittent way, the cost of transport is significantly reduced.

To recognize a famous voice, human brains use the same center that lights up when the speaker’s face is presented, finds a clever neuroscience study where participants were asked to identify U.S. presidents.

Researchers have come up with a revolutionary test that has the ability to predict the risk of four cancers including ovarian and breast cancer by using a single cervical screening sample.

Scientists at the National University of Singapore have developed an edible plant-based cell culture scaffold which will help to produce cheaper and more sustainable lab-grown meat. These scaffolds can also be 3D printed.

In a busy hospital, a radiologist is using an artificial intelligence system to help her diagnose medical conditions based on patients’ X-ray images. Using the AI system can help her make faster diagnoses, but how does she know when to trust the AI’s predictions?

Although some flowers have the ability to change their colors. Researchers have now revealed that Causonis japonica, a common plant in Japan, has a unique bidirectional color change ability that makes its flowers change color again and again.

Despite its importance for speaking, breathing, and eating, relatively little is known about the genetic underpinnings of the human vocal tract. A consortium of geneticists, neuroscientists and linguists has estimated the heritability of many elements of the vocal tract based on 3D structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in 632 monozygotic and dizygotic twins.

Plants form symbiotic relationships with microbes in the soil to promote their growth. However, researchers from the University of California, Riverside, have discovered that competition between different strains of these bacteria can negatively affect their benefit to the host plant.