The ongoing U.S. government shutdown is taking a toll on households nationwide, including in the greater Houston area, where ...

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 ...

Everything from temperature, soil conditions, and rainfall can affect how food tastes. As the climate changes, it’s messing ...

On Friday, Chico elementary students had a smashing time as they watched members of Chico State's Society of Physics drop pumpkins from a crane, all in the name ...

The Food and Drug Administration is restricting the use of fluoride supplements used to strengthen children’s teeth.

Synchronization abounds in nature: from the flashing lights of fireflies to the movement of fish wriggling through the ocean, ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign developed a thermochemical conversion process that doesn’t require ...

“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 ...

New book about why we eat what we eat, and how what we eat affects our health. It’s hard to know what information to trust.

Alice Callahan, a reporter for the Well desk, explored the history of ultraprocessed foods and how they became a major threat ...

Ever wondered why banana candy doesn’t taste like bananas? Welcome to the weird, wonderful world of acetate esters molecules ...