Old canned salmon turned out to be a time capsule of ocean health. Researchers found that rising levels of tiny parasitic ...

Credible nutrition educators and scientists need to be closely involved as medical schools add more instruction on nutrition.

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Nature in the Neighborhood The first image that may come to mind when someone mentions biodiversity is a tropical rainforest ...

A coalition of anti-marijuana organizations is suing the Trump administration over a novel initiative set to launch this week ...

We are what we eat. And in the ocean, most life-forms source their food from phytoplankton. These microscopic, plant-like ...

The human ability to cook may seem ordinary, but it marks one of the most important evolutionary turning points in our ...

Climate change is altering ocean food at its source, reducing protein in phytoplankton and impacting marine life across the ...

Intensive antibiotic use in farming has created the ideal conditions for resistant bacteria, viruses and fungi to develop.

Hidden within fish DNA are powerful genetic twists that may explain one of nature’s biggest mysteries: how new species form so quickly. In Lake Malawi, hundreds of cichlid fish species evolved at ...

Food science isn’t just for the lab. It’s something we experience every day. The Maillard reaction, simply put, is when food such as steak or bread turns brown. It happens when proteins, which are ...

When the environment changes dramatically, animals from mollusks to crows can make big changes in their behavior that enable ...