In a nondescript hotel ballroom last month at the South by Southwest Interactive festival, Andras Forgacs offered a rare glimpse at the sci-fi future of food. Before an audience of tech-industry types ...

'Test tube meat' is a term used to describe meat products grown in a laboratory. They are made by harvesting stem cells from the muscle tissue of living livestock. The cells, which have the ability to ...

It was a critical test to ensure anthrax bacteria had been thoroughly killed so the samples could be safely shipped to researchers at other labs. Yet the Army scientist simply threw out one test tube ...

Hate to burst your bubble, glass lab gear. But plastic bubble wrap also works pretty well at running science experiments. Scientists at Harvard University have figured out a way to use these petite ...

TIME was when tiny islands and remote mountain tops were the only places for evolutionary biologists to develop their theories. In quiet isolation, they contemplated the curve of a finch’s beak or the ...