Food

A caffeinated look at the technical challenges of dealing with fluids in space.

1 | October 19, 2010 3:00pm | By John Herrman

PepsiCo will deploy its new intelligent crop management technology to its farmers around the world, cutting water use and emissions and boosting yields.

5 | October 19, 2010 11:09am | By Andrew Nusca

It's not until you spend time elsewhere that you realize just how bad the American obesity epidemic is.

16 | October 19, 2010 7:26am | By Dana Blankenhorn

Leading tech executives urge adoption of commercial best practices -- from cloud computing to energy efficiency and streamlined supply chains -- by the federal government.

3 | October 18, 2010 9:15pm | By Joe McKendrick

Lawsuits against military contractors have been filed in 42 states by soldiers alleging health problems from burn pits in Afghanistan and Iraq.

2 | October 18, 2010 1:15am | By Deborah Gage

Expert panel suggests H20 is about to become a much sharper focus of cleantech funding.

4 | October 15, 2010 8:16am | By Heather Clancy

Plastic electronics could lead to electronic wallpaper, energy-generating windows and medical patches that deliver medicine on demand, Princeton researchers say.

5 | October 15, 2010 6:36am | By Boonsri Dickinson

As with the moon landing, a lot of technology and innovation came together in one place for a common purpose.

5 | October 14, 2010 2:57pm | By Joe McKendrick

Perception study finds Johnson & Johnson boasts best reputation for social responsibility and points up need for better definitions around the notion of business sustainability.

October 14, 2010 2:19pm | By Heather Clancy

The rinderpest virus is the second virus to have been eliminated by humans, according to a new report.

3 | October 14, 2010 1:24pm | By Boonsri Dickinson

As Brazil privatizes some of it rainforest, microchipped trees in one patch of the Amazon are tracking sustainably harvested wood from grove to grave.

1 | October 13, 2010 12:15pm | By Melissa Mahony

This is the first time embryonic stem-cell treatments have been approved by the government. End of pills and a new beginning for stem cell treatments?

12 | October 12, 2010 4:23am | By Boonsri Dickinson

In what's being described as the world's first global ocean census, marine researchers have compiled nearly 30 million observations of 120,000 ocean species. Scientists participating in the Census...

October 12, 2010 4:00am | By Christina Hernandez

Lung cancer news: Cheek swab for lung cancer and how smoking causes epigenetic changes.

3 | October 11, 2010 10:01am | By Boonsri Dickinson

A drug company knows that future market studies may come back to haunt them. A food company does not.

October 8, 2010 11:09pm | By Dana Blankenhorn

Tufts University is bringing together a multidisciplinary team that will be trained to deal with the complexities surrounding human, animal and environmental health.

October 7, 2010 4:00am | By Christina Hernandez

Two University of Manchester scientists win the 2010 Nobel Prize for Physics for their work with graphene, the thinnest, strongest material ever discovered.

10 | October 5, 2010 7:58am | By Andrew Nusca

Americans discard about a third of their food. Wasted along with rotten morsels and unconsumed scraps is a heavy consumption of fuel and petrochemicals.

1 | October 5, 2010 4:00am | By Melissa Mahony

Scientists studied the state of the river system and it isn't looking so good.

15 | October 4, 2010 5:10pm | By Boonsri Dickinson

Scientists propose genetically engineering trees to absorb and store more carbon, and to make better biofuels. The problems? Many.

12 | October 4, 2010 4:15am | By Melissa Mahony