After a 14-year-old died doing a viral spicy chip challenge, many parents have called for more awareness about the risks of these challenges.
Farming has made crop plants reliant on synthetic fertilisers, but we can reactivate their ability to engage with beneficial microorganisms and make them more independent.
Did the Green Revolution, which brought high-tech agriculture to developing nations in the 1960s, prevent famine? Recent research takes a much more skeptical view.
Liposomes have been used to enhance the effectiveness of medicines for decades – but it doesn’t necessarily mean they will work in food supplements too.
Flies often beat out competitors for food because of their specialized sensing organs called antennae.
Nurturing your gut microbiome can go hand in hand with nurturing your social community, with health benefits all around.
AI chatbots can make a major contribution but we need to consider people with allergies.
Research is clear that what we eat can drive our test preferences as early as 2 years of age.
If hunter-gatherers went beyond nose-to-tail eating to include the undigested plant matter in a prey animal’s stomach, assumptions about gendered division of labor start to fall apart.
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