Why ranches, cattle, and meat-eating may play a role in fighting climate change. September 5th, 2019by Lynne Curry As if the beef industry didn’t already… Read More »The “eat less meat” movement is growing. Does it distort science?
Global warming’s catastrophic effects are on full display as Siberia, Alaska, and Brazil’s Amazon rainforest burn. The Amazon wildfires are particularly alarming as scientists… Read More »9 Ways to help the Amazon Rainforest Right Now as the Fires are Burning
No one denies peas are nutritious. Whether they’re delicious—that’s debatable. But arguments over taste no longer matter because peas, specifically yellow peas, are being formulated… Read More »The Rise of the Pea: How an Unassuming Legume Emerged as a Frontrunner in the Race to Replace Meat and Dairy
SAN FRANCISCO — At 9:30 on most weeknights, Ricky Lopez, the head chef and owner of Top Round Roast Beef in San Francisco, stacks up… Read More »The Rise of the Virtual Restaurant
A fungus that has wreaked havoc on banana plantations in the Eastern Hemisphere has, despite years of preventative efforts, arrived in the Americas. ICA, the… Read More »The banana is one step closer to disappearing
For the better part of a decade, Big Food has been in a scramble to restructure and reinvent itself amid a massive shift in consumer… Read More »Can Big Food buy its way into innovation?
By Christopher Flavelle The world’s land and water resources are being exploited at “unprecedented rates,” a new United Nations report warns, which combined with climate… Read More »Climate Changes Threatens World Food Supply
Walk down Drydock Avenue in the old industrial waterfront of Boston and you’ll be reminded that the city remains a significant industrial port. Trucks rattle past… Read More »The Life Factory: Synthetic Organisms From This $1.4 Billion Startup Will Revolutionize Manufacturing
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BY THE SCIENTIST STAFF Scientists have for decades recognized that the human body is more microbe than human. Large and diverse communities of bacteria, viruses,… Read More »The Microbiome and Human Health