Virginia Hughes

A testing method borrowed from geology helped farmers sue a slew of stores selling supposed “Kona” coffee.

With machine learning, scientists are trying to chemically define the murky concept of terroir. The models might be useful for detecting wine fraud.

A large study in Britain found two specific windows of adolescence when some teenagers are most sensitive to social media.

A gold-standard treatment for phobias and anxieties encourages young people to follow an old and simple dictum: Face your fears.

Researchers found that meaty conversations among several people can align beliefs and brain patterns — so long as the group is free of blowhards.

Jazz Pharmaceuticals brought in more than $1.7 billion last year selling GHB to narcolepsy patients. With the new approval, sales could soar.

A bone to pick from Germany’s Unicorn Cave. Plus fireflies in sync, peer review in crisis and China’s astronauts at work in their spacesuits.

Maryland and Montana have passed the nation’s first laws limiting forensic genealogy, the method that found the Golden State Killer.

The study, a tour de force in bioengineering, comes after two decades of research on brain-to-brain synchrony in people.

Forensic genealogy helped nab the Golden State Killer in 2018. Now investigators across the country are using it to revisit hundreds of unsolved crimes.