On the northern edge of Ukraine, inside the 30-km (19-mile) exclusion zone surrounding the abandoned Chornobyl (commonly ...

The NY Department of Agriculture and Markets invited the USA Today Network in for a tour of its Albany Food Lab which tests ...

It's best to use dedicated cutting boards for each type of food, and color-coding — red for meat, yellow for poultry, green ...

Food safety experts highlight six essential kitchen tools — from thermometers to cutting boards — to keep Thanksgiving safe and successful.

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Microbiologists have launched the first coordinated plan to protect microbial biodiversity across the planet, calling ...

The Running Man, of course, is the title of the 1982 Stephen King novel (published under the pen-name Richard Bachman) that has been made into a movie twice, once in 1987 as an Arnold Schwarzenegger ...

Cloud cover is bad for picnics and for viewing stars through a telescope. But an exoplanet with dense or even total cloud cover could help astronomers searching for signs of life beyond our planet.

Artist concept of a cloudy Earth-like exoplanet with colorful biota in the clouds. Credit: Adam B. Langeveld/Carl Sagan Institute. Adapted from NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech. Clouds may seem like a barrier ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – An exoplanet with dense or even total cloud cover could help astronomers searching for signs of life beyond our planet. Cornell University researchers have created the first reflectance ...

Recent observations suggest that scientists have identified potential microbial fingerprints in the atmospheres of other planets, raising intriguing questions about the possibility of alien life ...