ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATEBiologists have tried to find answers to the living patterns of blind cavefish, trying to find the reasons of their survival in the deep and dark cisterns hundreds of feet below the ground. The answers seem to be found in their bones.
Tim Lang, a food policy expert from the University of London, said that consumers must think twice about buying a food for it could contribute to the ongoing environmental issues.
Find out the reason why you perceive products to be large in commercial ads. A study had found out that the reason products appear larger have something to do with sound perception.
Cutting or reducing dairy from a person's diet poses future risks of bone damage. Many people of today’s generation were discovered to have been undergoing a dairy-free diet.
Every now and then there is a food fad and currently, it is Clean eating. Seeing the various celebrities and big names endorsing the food habit, many youngsters are taking to the latest food fad unaware of its possible problems.
Melting of sea ice in the summers creates algae and other microorganisms which provide food for other marine creatures. Some foods get sunk to the bottom of the sea and get eaten by seabed dwellers.
Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and Michigan State University scientists analyzed fossil records and bones of Hawaiian Petrel to determine how human interference affecting their food chain. industrial fishing and other human activities are damaging their resources During the past 100 years.
A new study concludes Fruit rich diet drove primates to evolve big brains. The fruit-eating animals turned out to have 25 percent more brain tissue than others.
In the busy modern lifestyle there is not much time left for cooking and in such cases, the frozen food saves the day. Amidst the countless options, there are few frozen foods that are worth your freezer space.
Skin aging may be a natural process but there are ways people can fight against it. Here are some foods that can help prevent wrinkles from appearing and keeping one's skin healthy and youthful looking.
There is a new study that shows sugar is actually dangerous to health. Sugar has established its way toward the appetite of the child population through the years.
People have been used to eat processed meat products but is not aware of the danger it causes. Processed meat such as ham, sausages and bacon are part of most homes everyday meal.
In an ongoing attempt to boost the dwindling number of pandas on the planet (currently tallying just under 2,000), scientists have discovered what appears to be a physiological roadblock to the bear's good health: they possess the wrong type of gut.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away, but it may not do much help you put the fork down. In a new study scientists have found why you may feel emptiness in your stomach even after eating a fruit salad.
When it comes to the sugars that we eat, would you believe that our bodies may respond more positively to some rather than others? It’s a pretty simple assumption that our bodies may respond differently to each sugar we ingest, but it turns out that the physiological responses and mental associations made are far more complex than even researchers in neurobiology could have ever assumed. In a new study published this week in the journal PNAS, researchers with the University of Southern California investigated appetite responses and food choices with regards to ingestion of fructose versus glucose. And what the researchers found was that fructose was far more likely to be dangerous to your diet.
With recent archaeological findings proving that researchers may not know as much about prehistoric life as they once thought, researchers with the American Museum of Natural History are taking another look at interpreting the diets of long-extinct animals, and what they’re finding points to finding the source of a prehistoric diet. Though teeth shape has been used for decades as a primary indicator as to the dietary habits of a fossilized subject, in a new study published today in the journal PLOS ONE, researchers are now saying that skull shape and ancestral lineages, both before and after extinction events, may serve as a proxy for what these animals truly once ate.