France is the world's most sustainable food country

In 2016, the country became the first globally to require supermarkets to donate unsold food to charity, and for restaurants to provide doggy bags when requested, or be subject to fines.

Scientists 'paint' the world's smallest Mona Lisa on a DNA

New techniques in DNA self-assembly allow researchers to create the largest to-date customizable patterns with nanometer precision on a budget.

The most distant supermassive black hole ever observed

This black hole resides in a luminous quasar and its light reaches us from when the Universe was only 5 percent of its current age — just 690 million years after the Big Bang.

First light achieved for next-generation planet-hunter

The Echelle SPectrograph for Rocky Exoplanet and Stable Spectroscopic Observations (ESPRESSO) has successfully made its first observations.

Two new Super-Earths Discovered Around a Red Dwarf Star

While examining a previously-discovered exoplanet, an international team of astronomers discovered a second Super-Earth around the star.

Worms Born in ‘Mars Soil’ For the First Time

The discovery is a major game-changer for planning our relationship with the Red Planet in the future. The good news: There will be salads.

Big Ag + Big Pharma = Big Problems

Farm animals in the US, such as pigs, cows, and chickens, receive more than 80 percent of the antibiotics sold in the States.

Film-maker James Cameron takes aim at dairy and meat

Multi-millionaire Canadian film-maker James Cameron has taken aim at the meat and dairy sectors, saying that people need to eat less of it in order for the world to reach any climate goals.

New software can verify someone's identity by their DNA in minutes

The technology could have multiple applications, from identifying victims in a mass disaster to analyzing crime scenes.

Exposure to harmful pesticides in Pakistan

Globally around 200,000 people die each year in the developing world due to organophosphorus pesticide poisoning.

Companies join efforts to build hybrid plane

The companies said they were looking ahead to the European Union's long-term goals of reducing CO2 emissions from aviation by 60 percent.

Drivers of electric cars in the US can save up to $1,070 per year

Above and beyond their ability to reduce local air pollution and carbon emissions, electric vehicles are also starting to make a lot of sense financially as well.

Optical computing is now a step closer

By forcing light to go through a smaller gap than ever before, researchers have paved the way for computers based on light instead of electronics.

3-D-printed minifactories

Researchers have developed a biocompatible ink for 3-D printing using living bacteria.