Study provides the first evidence that a broadly used pesticide alone can harm bee flight

A new study from University of Washington researchers describes how some people also turn to posting photos on Instagram to track food intake or to be held accountable by followers in meeting healthy eating or weight loss goals

Researchers found that rats fed a diet high in sugar but low in fat-meant to imitate many popular diet foods-increased body fat mass when compared to rats fed a balanced rodent diet

A researcher at the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country has studied the properties produced due to feeding with ammonium despite generating less growth than the nitrate

DNA barcoding analysis finds no evidence of seafood fraud; swaps are mostly with closely related species

In 17 percent of colonies analyzed in a recent Cornell study, the bees' food stores revealed the presence of acutely high levels of pesticide exposure, while 73 percent were found to have chronic exposure

Spermidine—a compound found in foods like aged cheese, mushrooms, soy products, legumes, corn, and whole grains—seems to prevent (at least in animal models) liver fibrosis and hepatocellular carcinoma

Deep sequencing impacts food and bioenergy crops

While continued work in this area is needed to replicate and extend these exciting findings, they do suggest that what we eat as we age could be critically important to the maintenance of our brain health

This counterintuitive discovery by scientists at Vanderbilt University and in Germany has upended more than 100 years of conventional scientific wisdom

For the study, former UF/IFAS graduate student Lane Abraben, used an economic model to determine if consumers are willing to pay more for organic wine

To study the impact of restricting trans fat, researchers compared outcomes for people living in New York counties with and without the restrictions