On the occasion of her retirement, Apryll Stalcup considers the past – and what she’d do with a lottery jackpot

Scientists have discovered rare cannabinoids in non-cannabis plants

Human hair in the Balearic Islands of Menorca provides direct evidence of psychedelic use during the Bronze Age

Multiomic blood profiling measures health more accurately than BMI

How crab shells could be used for biodegradable components in spectrometers

Cicely Rathmell from Wasatch Photonics discusses how Raman spectroscopy is increasingly being applied in the food chain

Vibrational spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy reveal cooking and consumption of giant land snails amongst early Homo sapiens

The analysis of metagenomic sequencing data sheds a little more light on how SARS-CoV-2 was first transmitted to humans – but where next?

BPA-like chemicals in food labels are contaminating fresh produce, study finds

Paleoenvironmental analysis reveals indigenous burning has been present in Australia for over 10,000 years