Like chocolate, cocoa powder is made from cacao beans. After the beans are processed into a paste known as chocolate liqueur, some of the cocoa butter is removed and the remaining solids are ...

Between late May and early June annually, Luo Pingzhao visited the picturesque Jiuzhaigou National Park in Sichuan province to study bird-life with his binoculars. That is the best time to watch both ...

As much as the best baristas in America can control a cup of coffee when the kettles are steaming and the scales are beeping, the fate of a bean is sealed far earlier, while still in its green state ...

Humankind is facing an energy challenge: the urgent need to find a clean source of energy that is able to fulfil our growing demands for energy. Solar energy is the most promising such source because ...

A research team at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology has successfully combined single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) and single-cell mass spectrometry (scMS) analysis on the same plant ...

Since the time of the ancient Greeks, doctors and philosophers have argued whether ageing is a disease or a natural process. Many authors of the Hippocratic Corpus argued that growing old invariably ...