If you have safe municipal water or a reliable home filter, switching from single-use plastic to a reusable bottle is the ...

Writing this week in Nature Communications, the agricultural engineers outlined a strategy for taking excess food waste, converting it into biofuel, and then “upgrading” that fuel into jet fuel that ...

"We call it hidden hunger." Researchers make first-of-its-kind breakthrough that could change future of food: 'It offers huge ...

The prototype detected capsaicin and pungent-flavored compounds - such as those behind garlic’s "zing" - in a range of foods.

In tech, we love our KPIs—user growth, engagement, efficiency. In food tech, the industry celebrates taste and price. But in ...

“Our flexible artificial tongue holds tremendous potential in spicy sensation estimation for portable taste-monitoring devices, movable humanoid robots, or patients with sensory impairments like ...

Many unexpected human artifacts have been preserved, for centuries, in vulture nests. This sandal woven from grasses and twigs, called an agobía, is somewhere between 727 and 771 years old, ...

A controversial new scientific paper has sent shockwaves through the academic community by suggesting that life on Earth may not have emerged through natural processes alone, but could instead be the ...

“Biodiversity is much higher in natural ecosystems than in the city,” said Brand, and that includes the fungi living in the soils. Bashian-Victoroff collected soil for the new experiment from Bole ...

About 15 million deaths could be avoided each year and agricultural emissions could drop by 15% if people worldwide shift to healthier, predominantly plant-based diets, according to the EAT-Lancet ...

Researchers at the University of Basel have found that certain nutrients can trigger a mild stress response in nematodes, an effect that unexpectedly promotes healthier aging rather than harm. Credit: ...

In 2024, the researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was one of the first scientists in the country to realize something new was happening: "I was going through [reports] ...