“The taste was delicious, and none of us suffered any ill effects from the meal.”

All the biggest science news stories of the week.

This 25-million-year-old lake holds one-fifth of all the planet’s fresh surface water.

If we let this fall, it’s the first domino in a sequence of very, very bad, no good…

Why did two different fungi separately co-evolve the same psychedelic compound?

Escapees of the restaurant trade are making things tricky for the conservation of giant salamanders.

These miniature humans may have had a growth hormone deficiency that continues to affect people today.

A new study links the diet plan to “multiple aberrations of metabolic parameters”, which… doesn’t sound great.

Extreme old age does not necessarily mean poor health.