A global shift toward healthy and more plant-based diets, halving food loss and waste, and improving farming practices and technologies are required to feed 10 billion people sustainably by 2050, a new study finds. Adopting ...
Environment
Oct 10, 2018
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A study estimating the environmental impact of 57,000 food products in the U.K. and Ireland has been published this week in the journal PNAS by an Oxford-led research team.
Environment
Aug 8, 2022
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Chemists at the Technische Universität Dresden have developed a new, more sustainable process for synthesizing numerous important everyday chemicals from white phosphorus. The new process has the potential to establish innovative, ...
Biochemistry
Apr 25, 2022
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Australian scientists are trying to grow plants on the moon by 2025 in a new mission unveiled Friday that they said could help pave the way for a future colony.
Space Exploration
Oct 7, 2022
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Could we feed a city on Mars? This question is central to the future of space exploration and has serious repercussions on Earth too. To date, a lot of thought has gone into how astronauts eat; however, we are only beginning ...
Agriculture
Jan 24, 2023
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Representatives with multiple agencies including the CDC, the United States Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration on May 1 discussed the latest news about bird flu in the U.S.
Agriculture
May 2, 2024
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Researchers at UCLA have created an edible particle that helps make lab-grown meat, known as cultured meat, with more natural muscle-like texture using a process that could be scaled up for mass production.
Biotechnology
Aug 17, 2022
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Researchers from the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1266 at Kiel University (CAU) have been able to prove, in the first archaeobotanical study of burnt food residues on the surface of ceramic vessels, how varied the ...
Archaeology
Jan 22, 2024
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The next time you tuck in to a tikka masala you might find yourself asking a burning question: are spices used in dishes to help stop infection?
Archaeology
Feb 4, 2021
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Building resilience in renewable energy and food production is a fundamental challenge in today's changing world, especially in regions susceptible to heat and drought. Agrivoltaics, the co-locating of agriculture and solar ...
Environment
Sep 3, 2019
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