Food

When it comes to colon cancer risk, should you go nuts?

The ins and outs of hunger — and how to control it best.

When you drop a piece of food on the floor, is it really OK to eat if you pick up within five seconds?

Think sharks only live in the ocean? Think again.

Chemistry makes Christmas cookies possible, whether crispy, chewy or cake-like in texture. Here's how the combination of fat, flour and sugar can become complicated quickly.

Fairly and efficiently distributing food is a large and complicated problem and a team of engineers set out to make it work better.

The Arctic's shrinking sea ice is reshaping the region's food web from the bottom up, a new study reports.

If chicken production were more sanitary, the birds wouldn't need to be drenched in chlorine before leaving the factory.

A sixth-grade student’s science fair project led to the discovery that erythritol, a sugar alcohol in Truvia, may be a human-safe insecticide.

Unlike moving from our current dependence on fossil fuels, there is no alternative to phosphorus and if it runs out our global food production system would grind to a halt.

Chemical additives in food are a poorly regulated health risk in the U.S. food supply, says NRDC executive director Peter Lehner.

Communities that open or expand a casino see a drop in the percentage of children who are obese or overweight, according to a new study of casinos in American Indian communities.

If foods are protein-rich, ants can't tell solid morsels from liquid.

Only treating the symptoms of a problem may mask the real issue at hand.

Impressive edibles that emerged from 3-D printers.

This Holiday Season, have some food for thought.

Eating DNA sounds scary but it’s completely safe. I do it every day. Let me explain.

The world's population is projected to hit 11 billion by 2100. Not only will we have to feed all these people, but we'll have to do it in a way that's less taxing on the earth's resources.