Tag: Food
Climate change is affecting crop yields and reducing global food supplies
Deepak Ray, University of Minnesota
Farmers are used to dealing with weather, but climate change is making it harder by altering temperature and rainfall patterns,...
US agriculture needs a 21st-century New Deal
Maywa Montenegro, University of California, Davis; Annie Shattuck, University of California, Berkeley, and Joshua Sbicca, Colorado State University
These are difficult times in farm country....
Ack! I need chocolate! The science of PMS food cravings
Sara Twogood, University of Southern California
Premenstrual food cravings are the punchline of endless jokes. Like most good jokes, they’re funny because they’re true.
Certain parts...
Why some plastic packaging is necessary to prevent food waste and...
Manoj Dora, Brunel University London and Eleni Iacovidou, Brunel University London
There has been a surge in awareness of the damage that plastic pollution does...
Softer, processed foods changed the way ancient humans spoke
Steven Moran, University of Zürich and Balthasar Bickel, University of Zürich
The human capacity for language divides our species from the rest of the animal...
Diets can do more than help you lose weight – they...
Adrienne Rose Bitar, Cornell University
Fad diets have long been brushed off as selfish, superficial quests to lose weight.
But if you study the actual content...
Cultured meat seems gross? It’s much better than animal agriculture
Matti Wilks, Yale University
The world is in the grips of a food-tech revolution. One of the most compelling new developments is cultured meat, also...
Brexit food shortages are not inevitable – keep calm and don’t...
Jamie Stone, Loughborough University
With no Brexit deal in place and March 29 fast approaching, fears are growing that the UK will struggle to maintain...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
