Bread geeks, take note! The new technique, developed in a lab in Naples, involves the smart application of materials science and physics to make... Italian scientists hacked pizza physics to make ...

The yeast produce only tiny amounts of the drug. But eventually, the technology could lead to better painkillers and other medicines. Drug... Engineers Make Narcotics With Yeast. Is Home-Brewed Heroin ...

The ingredients for space yeast are fairly simple. "Astronaut breath, water, yeast starter, electricity, a rolling pin and we can make it happen," Stafford Sheehan, a finalist in the NASA-sponsored ...

When corn farmers harvest their crop, they often leave the stalks, leaves and spent cobs to rot in the fields. Now, engineers have fashioned a new strain of yeast that can convert this inedible debris ...