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Grocery-delivery app Instacart was caught using AI image generators for pictures of recipes and ingredients, with horrifying results.

Instacart Caught Using Revolting AI-Generated Images of Food

By Victor Tangermann

A Consumer Reports investigation has found a plastic ingredient known as phthalate at worrying high levels in supermarket and fast food items.

Scientists Found Hazardous Phthalates in Almost Every Food They Tested

By Frank Landymore

Uber Eats Mocked for Grotesque AI-Generated Food Pictures on Menu

Uber Eats Mocked for Grotesque AI-Generated Food Pictures on Menu

By Jon Christian

The food industry is apparently in a tizzy over the appetite-suppressing semaglutide — and even the megastore Walmart is feeling the burn.

Walmart Spies on Ozempic Patients’ Shopping Habits, Finds They’re Buying Less Food

By Noor Al-Sibai

As Ozempic and Wegovy continue to rush off the selves, snack industry investors are concerned about its appetite suppressing qualities.

Snack Food Investors Concerned About the Rise of Semaglutide

By Noor Al-Sibai

This snack food overlord is readying himself and his company's delicious treats for war against weight loss drugs like Ozempic.

Snack Food CEO Vows to Battle Ozempic

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A now-removed travel article published by Microsoft inexplicably recommended The Ottawa Food Bank as a "cannot miss!" tourist attraction.

Microsoft Deletes Bizarre AI-Generated Travel Guide That Recommended Visiting Food Bank With an “Empty Stomach”

By Frank Landymore

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Invasion of Food Delivery Robots is Driving People to Vandalism and Theft

By Sharon Adarlo

Researchers are working on a way to transform plastic waste into edible biomass for deep-space missions, all with the help of lab-engineered bacteria.

Cursed Tech Turns Plastic Waste Into Edible Food

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Carb-lovers, today's your lucky day — an Australian food scientist has pretty expertly shot down criticisms that claim pasta is an unhealthy food.

Rejoice! Food Scientist Says Pasta Is Way Healthier Than You’d Think

By Noor Al-Sibai

A food delivery robot threw caution to the wind and forced itself across a police line in the name of duty.

Food Delivery Robot Plows Through Crime Scene as Cops Look on in Bemusement

By Victor Tangermann

According to 130,000 years' worth of mammalian food webs and extinction patterns, we're in the midst of a mass biodiversity crisis. Very chill.

The Entire Food Chain Has Started Collapsing, Scientists Warn

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Doctors published a study in the European Heart Journal that found people who add salt to their food are more likely to die a premature death.

Salting Your Food Can Kill You Faster, Doctors Say

By Lonnie Lee Hood

These Chopsticks Make Your Food Taste Better By Electrocuting Your Tongue

These Chopsticks Make Your Food Taste Better By Electrocuting Your Tongue

By Victor Tangermann

Chipotle has partnered with Miso Robotics to create an AI-powered robot that will make chips for its restaurants instead of humans.

Chipotle Unveils Robot Designed to Make Mediocre Food Just Like Humans

By Tony Ho Tran

Despite declining global shark populations the meat is winding up in pet food, according to a new study in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science.

DNA Test Finds Endangered Species in Cat and Dog Food

By Lonnie Lee Hood

New research indicates that many items found in fast food throughout the US contain hormone-disrupting chemicals found in plastic.

Fast Food Is Filled With Chemicals That Disrupt Hormones, Scientists Say

By Tony Ho Tran

Fast-food chain Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers is resorting to sending its corporate staff to work in its restaurants amid the ongoing labor squeeze.

Fast Food Chain Can’t Find People to Hire, So It’s Sending Office Workers to Fry Food and Work Registers

By Victor Tangermann

Hackers launched a ransomware attack on a major farming services company, and the subsequent standoff could cause food shortages.

Cyberattack on Farming Group Could Lead to Food Shortages

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers studying weight gain believe global obesity trends might be more driven by the types of food you eat rather than how much food you eat.

Study: Weight Gain Caused by Eating Specific Foods, Not Eating Too Much

By Tony Ho Tran

Researchers have discovered more evidence that oil spills can have long lasting impacts on marine life even more than a decade after the spill.

Scientists Find Tissue Deformities in Seafood Linked to Deepwater Horizon Spill

By Tony Ho Tran

New tech can convert plastic garbage into safe, edible protein, potentially giving us an answer to the mountains of trash choking the planet.

New Tech Turns Plastic Waste Into Food

By Dan Robitzski

When French astronaut Thomas Pesquet will jet off to the International Space Station tomorrow morning, he can look forward to some pretty fantastic meals.

Huh, Turns Out Space Food Has Gone From Gross to “Pretty Fantastic”

By Victor Tangermann

Fallout from post-World War II nuclear bomb tests is still popping up in honey today, though at low concentrations that are still safe to eat.

Fallout From Nuclear Bomb Tests Is Showing Up in This Popular Food

By Dan Robitzski

In a massive review of existing mouse research, scientists linked a high-sugar, high-fat diet to cognitive impairments later in life.

Mice Fed Fast Food Get Noticeably Stupider, Scientists Warn

By Dan Robitzski

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Scientists Link Eating This Common Baseball Stadium Food With Dementia Risk

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found a way to turn food scraps into viable jet fuel that burns cleaner than traditional petroleum fuels and works with the planes we have today.

Food Waste Could Power the Jet Engines We’re Currently Flying With, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

After a food shipment for Russian space station crewmembers was delayed by two months, the American cohort split their rations.

On ISS, Americans Give Food to Russians After Delayed Shipment

By Dan Robitzski

COVID-19 is having some seriously strange effects on the nervous system — including wreaking havoc on the patient's sense of smell.

After COVID, Your Favorite Foods May Smell Like Rotting Meat

By Victor Tangermann

A massive scientific review that combined the results of thousands of studies found that regularly eating chili peppers is linked to major health benefits.

Huge Meta-Study: This Food Appears to Actually Make You Live Longer

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists discovered the first bacteria that chemosynthesizes the metal manganese, and they did it almost by accident while cleaning up an experiment.

Newly-Discovered Bacteria Can Eat Metal as Food

By Dan Robitzski

3D Printing Food in Certain Shapes Tricks People Into Eating Less

3D Printing Food in Certain Shapes Tricks People Into Eating Less

By Dan Robitzski

Impossible Foods CEO Says he Could Create Brand-New Types of Meat

By Dan Robitzski

A number of cruise ship passengers are catching cabin fever as they're trapped on board the Grand Princess due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.

Passengers Fought Over Rotten Food on Quarantined Cruise Ship

By Victor Tangermann

First Major Food Brand Adds Carbon Footprint Labels to Products

By Kristin Houser

Impossible Foods’ Fake Pork Looks Absolutely Scrumptious

Impossible Foods’ Fake Pork Looks Absolutely Scrumptious

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon is full of third-party merchants selling food and other stuff they found in the garbage. It turns out it's not hard to sneak through the system.

Scammers Are Selling Dumpster-Dived Food on Amazon

By Dan Robitzski

Those "personal food computers" from the MIT Media Lab that were supposed to help refugees grow crops on the move never worked, its creator's bold claims.

MIT Researcher Lied About Feeding Refugees With “Food Computers”

By Dan Robitzski

Customers using Amazon to buy food have reported receiving spoiled, expired products, and the company isn't always quick to grant a refund.

Amazon Keeps Delivering Moldy, Spoiled Food to Customers

By Kristin Houser

Climate change has the global food supply on the brink of disaster, according to a newly published United Nations report.

UN Warning: Food Is Going to Get Really, Really Expensive

By Kristin Houser

Tim Hortons has agreed to add JUST Eggs, a plant-based egg alternative, to its menu, making it the first major fast food company to do so.

“Eggless” Eggs Made From Plants Land First Fast Food Deal

By Kristin Houser

Impossible Foods, the fake meat company behind the plant-based Impossible Burger, is now working on a recipe for plant-based fish meat.

Impossible Foods Is Trying to Make Fake Fish Now

By Dan Robitzski

Solar Foods is using renewable energy and the carbon dioxide polluting our air to create an environmentally friendly alternative protein.

A Finnish Startup Is Making Food out of Carbon Dioxide

By Kristin Houser

Tyson Foods — one of the world's largest and most controversial meat producers — is launching a line of alt-meat products.

Tyson Foods’ Alt-Meat Nuggets Will Hit Grocery Stores This Summer

By Kristin Houser

As part of the InHome Delivery service, Amazon employees will be able to enter your abode, donning a camera, and deliver groceries directly to your fridge.

Walmart Will Now Deliver Food Straight to Your Fridge

By Victor Tangermann

Uber is seemingly launching a unlimited food delivery service called Uber Eats Pass, based on app code uncovered by a software engineer.

Uber Is Preparing to Launch a Netflix-Like Food Delivery Service

By Kristin Houser

Impossible Foods has partnered with Little Caesars on a meatless sausage that will soon be available as a pizza topping in three states.

Little Caesars Adds Impossible Foods’ Meatless Sausage to Menu

By Kristin Houser

Startup Flexa has released a new crypto app called SPEDN that allows users to pay for goods at several major retailers with cryptocurrency.

Bitcoin Payments Now Accepted by Whole Foods, Other Big Retailers

By Kristin Houser

The Abokado takeaway restaurant chain will become the first in the U.K. to feature edible insects on its regular menu starting on Tuesday.

This UK Fast Food Chain Wants People to Eat Crunchy Bugs

By Kristin Houser

Chinese food manufacturers have deployed taste-testing robots and artificial intelligence to make sure that the food is high-quality and authentic.

Taste-Testing Robots Are Optimizing Food in China

By Dan Robitzski

The ISS is about to test a new algae bioreactor that turns carbon dioxide to food and breathable oxygen. If it works, it could allow deep space missions.

The ISS Now Has an “Algae Bioreactor” Generating Oxygen and Food

By Dan Robitzski

CRISPR co-inventor Jennifer Doudna believes the tech's most profound impact on the mainstream in the next five years will be gene-edited food.

CRISPR Co-Inventor: We’ll Be Eating Gene-Edited Food In Five Years

By Kristin Houser

A panel of scientists just recommended to the Japanese government that CRISPR-edited foods should be declared safe to eat.

Japan Poised to Declare CRISPR-Edited Foods Safe to Eat

By Dan Robitzski

A food service company in the Midwestern region of the United States is now serving a gene-edited food in its restaurants.

The First Gene-Edited Food Has Reached US Restaurants

By Kristin Houser

IBM and food developer McCormick & Co developed a new AI platform that can create new foods better and faster than human experts.

AI Trained on Decades of Food Research Is Making Brand-New Foods

By Dan Robitzski

A fast food AI platform is taking orders at a drive-thru in Colorado, and it could be the latest sign that restaurants are prepared to lean on automation.

This Fast Food Drive-Thru Is Now Using AI to Take Orders

By Kristin Houser

The people most opposed to GM foods, foods modified in the lab to exhibit wanted characteristics, overestimate their knowledge of the subject the most.

Strongest Opponents of GM Foods Know the Least About Them

By Kristin Houser

A new FDA-approved food coating can double a vegetable's shelf life. It may help reduce the $2 trillion cost and carbon emissions of food waste.

Edible Coating Can Keep Food Fresh Longer and Cut Down on Waste

By Dan Robitzski

A plant in the Chinese city of Jinan is feeding food waste to cockroaches, which then become food for pigs and other livestock.

How a Billion Cockroaches Are Helping China Process Food Waste

By Kristin Houser

Molecular Gastronomy Kit: Fusing Food, Science, and Art

Molecular Gastronomy Kit: Fusing Food, Science, and Art

By Sarah Marquart

On Monday, the British military started a four-week experiment to test out over 70 new technologies. Among them are autonomous drones.

The UK is Testing Robots to Deliver Food and Ammo to Soldiers

By Dan Robitzski

A Toronto startup figured out how to get bacteria to turn food waste into biodegradable plastics. If it scales, it could prevent loads of methane emissions.

These Bacteria Digest Food Waste Into Biodegradable Plastic

By Dan Robitzski

We Aren’t Growing Enough Healthy Foods to Feed Everyone on Earth

By Kristin Houser

Ordering Food via Touchscreen Is so Fun You Spend More Money When You Do It

Ordering Food via Touchscreen Is so Fun You Spend More Money When You Do It

By Kristin Houser