How much will your groceries cost this holiday season?

With rising food prices continuing to affect working families, an expert shares what to expect at the grocery store this holiday season.

Michigan State • futurity
Nov. 14, 2024 ~5 min

‘Electro-agriculture’ could grow food without light

"This technology presents an opportunity to reinvent agriculture from the ground up."

Leah Shaffer - Washington University in St. Louis • futurity
Nov. 13, 2024 ~4 min


Artificial nose can smell if food has gone bad

Researchers have created a new artificial nose that can sniff out damaged fruit and spoiled meat. It could also hunt for diseases.

Norwegian University of Science and Technology • futurity
Nov. 11, 2024 ~7 min

Small cuts in meat production may offer big climate benefits

Eliminating a fraction of current beef production could remove three years' worth of global fossil fuel emissions.

James Devitt-NYU • futurity
Nov. 7, 2024 ~8 min

Eating healthy fats may protect you against cancer

"These findings suggest that the average person should focus on getting more of these fatty acids in their diets."

Leigh Hataway U. Georgia • futurity
Nov. 4, 2024 ~4 min

How bacteria affects sourdough bread smell and flavor

New research examines how certain strains of bacteria influence the smell and flavor of sourdough bread.

Camden Flath-Futurity • futurity
Nov. 4, 2024 ~7 min

‘Safe route’ or ‘sushi route’ − 2 strategies to turn yuck to yum and convince people to eat unusual foods

Past shifts in food habits suggest there are 2 paths to the adoption of new foods: One relies on familiarity and safety, the other on novelty and excitement.

Alexandra Plakias, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Hamilton College • conversation
Nov. 1, 2024 ~8 min

Making agriculture more resilient to climate change

Researchers across MIT are working on ways to boost food production and help crops survive drought.

Anne Trafton | MIT News • mit
Nov. 1, 2024 ~15 min


In Hawaii, parasites and viruses team up in the battle against fruit flies – an entomologist explains the implication for global pest control

Fruit flies wreak havoc on crops in Hawaii, but a type of parasitoid wasp armed with a biological weapon has helped keep the pests at bay.

Kelsey Coffman, Assistant Professor of Entomology & Plant Pathology, University of Tennessee • conversation
Oct. 31, 2024 ~9 min

3 neurons may control your decision to eat

It turns out that the neural circuit behind the jaw movement most essential to survival—eating—is surprisingly simple.

Katherine Fenz-Rockefeller • futurity
Oct. 29, 2024 ~11 min

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