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NASA is designing small away-from-home-ecosystems to make space exploration sustainable

Recycle everything!!!

What is gluten and why some people have gluten intolerance

Gluten Morgen!

Bacterial communities take turns to eat when food becomes scarce

Aww, they have tiny economic agreements, ain't that cute?

Eating fruit may have given primates their big brains, paving the way for social structures

Chow down.

Cooking at home is cheaper, more healthy, less fattening -- a major boost for nutritional sustainability

Writing this article left me starving. To the pans!

Students will eat at the salad bar -- all it takes is marketing and some parental help

You don't need an ID for this bar.

Seaweed might have helped determine who we are today

Feasting on seaweeds is good for your brain -- in fact, it may have been crucial.

NASA establishes first Space Technology Research Institutes to make Mars a self-sufficient colony

"Producing > packing" -- NASA.

A fifth of the world's food is lost to waste and over-eating

The world grows enough food. The challenge lies in controlling waste and protein distribution.

Your brain tricks you into seeing difficult goals as less appealing

Thanks brain...

Taxing junk food and subsidizing healthy items will make us live longer and save billions in the health system

That's 500,000 extra years of healthy life and more than AUD 3 billion in costs for Australia's current population.

Dogs and capuchins judge you as 'good' or 'bad', hint at the birth of human morality

Something as simple as opening a jar goes a long way with anyone. Even other species.

Have dinner earlier if you're trying to lose weight, study says

Minding when you eat might be just as important as what, when you're trying to slim down.

What Wikipedia can't tell you about making cheese

DIY for the holidays!

Legumes are more filling than meat, better for your waist and the planet

Where's my fork?

Crop spray boosts wheat yield by 20% without the use of GMOs

The improvement is simply astonishing.

Time to update the Paleo Diet -- it was heavy on plants and veggies, archaeologists found

Best enjoyed with a stone fork from a bark plate.

The U.S. public doesn't trust scientists over GMO foods, Pew report says

More like GMOhno!

Book review: 'Taste as Experience: The Philosophy and Aesthetics of Food'

This is a pragmatic take to gusto, one that both foodies and the 'profane' will enjoy.

New device enables you to grow your own food from plant cells

If you want to grow some food from scratch... you need Finnish researchers.

Mismatching foods can make for a better meal

Are we having spaghetti? OK, then I'd like some spring rolls to go with that.

Finnish appliance grows crops from cells in under a week

This is a berry exciting device.

Chicken korma shows why we like the food we like

Pass me some of that fat.

Globalization offers us a huge choice of foodstuffs -- but we're not having it

Game theory doesn't apply to farming like it does to other areas of industry.

Forget the 'five-second rule', it's so garbage it will make you sick

Don't kid yourself anymore. You knew all along it was BS but you still ate that toast.

Edible coating can empty every last drop of sticky liquids like ketchup, honey or syrup

Finally!

Robotic surveillance without enforcement isn't enough to stop people from stealing, a new study found

To be fair, students will do insane things for food.

This app lets you buy leftover food from UK restaurants - and it's really cheap

Keeping food inside our bellies instead of the bin.

Top chefs are using leftover food in Rio to feed the poor

Leftover food from the Olympic Village in Rio is being prepared by a group of international chefs and served to the poor.

Crops employ "austerity measures" to conserve water in drought conditions

By limiting the growth of their roots, grassy crops conserve soil water during drought.

Vegetables grown on Mars could be healthier than their Earth-grown counterparts

Food grown on Mars has been officially declared edible.

Study shows which celebrities endorse unhealthy foods and sodas

They're using the people we like to sell us things that aren't good for us.

New packaging keeps food fresh way longer, without any plastic

The unlikely ally is silk.

Our best bet at stopping food waste is to be more responsible, not more efficient

Humans are throwing away an insane quantity of food, both in the developed and in developing countries. While in the latter case this can be attributed to economic and technological constrains, the former is primarily consumer-driven. And the sum of individual choices adds up to major impacts on a global scale, a new study finds.

Researchers on the hunt for students' junk-food-gene

Takeout, instant noodles and cheap beer -- the only known organisms able to survive solely on these three items are university students. A new study examined undergraduates' dietary habits to see what powers their resilience to low-quality food, and if this trait can be grafted into human beings.

The cake isn't a lie -- but the nutritional value on the box definitely is

Food packaging does influence the amount of calories consumed, a new study found. By showing portion sizes much larger than recommended, the pictures on various product's packaging could make it difficult to eat healthy. Extras such as toppings or frosting on cakes are also usually not taken into account on nutritional labels, exacerbating the problem.

Prairie dogs murder ground squirrels to stave off competition for food

Prairie dogs aren't as innocent as they look. Researchers have documented as the animals slaughter ground squirrels for control over food. This is the first time this sort of behaviour was documented among omnivores.

The Crunch Effect -- how listening to your chewing can help you lose weight

The sounds you make while chewing have a significant effect on the amount of food you eat, a new study has found. The results suggest that people are likely to consume less if they can hear themselves eating.

No web, no worries -- spiders also like to eat vegetarian

Spiders' diets aren't limited to juicy insect bits. They spice up their menus with vegetarian courses too, zoologists from the US and UK have found.

How the American diet leaves people both overfed and undernourished at the same time

More than half of American's calories come from ultra-processed foods, a new study finds. The data also indicates close to 90% of total added sugar intake can be traced back to these foodstuffs.

Is the impact of climate change on agriculture underestimated?

A new paper suggests that we've been overlooking how two key human responses to climate -- the total area farmed and the number of crops planted -- will impact food production in the future.

Sharks usually eat meals smaller than one of yours

The voracious reputation of sharks might soon change as marine biologists uncover that most coral reef sharks eat pray smaller than a cheeseburger.

New enzyme could be used as an insulin alternative, to treat diabetes and obesity

University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre (CRCHUM) scientists have identified a new enzyme that could protect the body from toxic levels of intra-cell sugar. When there is too much sugar in the body it gets processed to glycerol-3-phosphate, a buildup of which can damage internal organs. The team behind the study proved that G3PP is able to extract excess sugar from cells.

Study finds why New Year's resolutions to lose weight fail

Throughout our hunter-forager days, humans have developed a subconscious urge to over-eat and became less and less psychologically equipped to avoid obesity, especially during the winter months, a University of Exeter study recently found.

A pocket-sized gadget uses spectroscopy and tells you what's inside food

One of the most exciting gadgets we've seen at CES this year comes from a French startup called DietSensor, which collaborated with an Israeli company called Consumer Physics. Their latest product called SCiO is a pocket-sized device that uses near-infrared spectroscopy to tell you how many carbs or calories are found inside your food.

The geometry of a Pringle

Mathematics is not about equations, numbers, computation or algorithms: It is about Understanding! There are many ways to understand it – the one that this post is based on is real life visualization. The Pringle shape is what is known in mathematics / calculus as a hyperbolic paraboloid. Why are Pringles a hyperbolic paraboloid? The […]

China builds massive cloning factory to feed its people

A massive, 200 million yuan (over $31 million) commercial animal cloning facility will be built in the Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area with the sole purpose of cloning China's cattle.

Study finds most people would support a "meat tax"

Agriculture is a big driver of climate change, with the meat industry standing out among the rest as a source of CO2 emissions and environmental damage; lowering demand for meat or ensuring that farms have as little environmental impact is possible, but costly. Would you be willing to eat less, if it was for the good of the planet? Pay more for your meat? A new study suggests that the idea isn't as controversial as you may believe on first glance.

Why most diets don't work

Universal diets don’t work because “healthy food” varies from person to person, a new study has found. Sadly, only a fraction of all people truly eat healthily these days – we all have our own struggles with food, either because we eat too much, or we eat things that are bad for us, or we don’t […]

Men ate almost twice as much when they dined with women

We all know that men like to impress the fairer members of our species, and this permeates into almost everything we do: we want to drive the shiniest car on the block, crack the funniest jokes 24/7 and write for ZMEScience so we can impress the ladies at parties. In essence, no matter how unlikely it is to actually impress, if a man has a choice between doing something and doing that something over the top so he can show off to women, you can bet your right arm he's gonna do the latter.