Chase Purdy

There’s something a bit radical about Belgium’s new food pyramid.

Researchers in Europe are closing in on every gluten-free eater’s dream: wheat-based, gluten-free bread.

Loyal drinkers of Cherry Sprite have robots to thank for their favorite sugary concoction.

In one week the US Food and Drug Administration identified more than 500 websites illegally selling prescription medicine—including opioids, according to the government.

It was the least he could do.

One of America’s first fast-food restaurants is taking a plunge into the Chinese market, bringing with it the cult-classic square hamburgers that made it famous.

The phone call was as unexpected as the American accent at the other end of the line. And when she hung up a few moments later, Ira van Eelen had to stop to catch her breath.

The growing opioid crises has sent health care experts scrambling for ways to address pain that doesn’t lead to addiction. In the labs of the biotech firm Bonti, scientists are working to see if the answer might be Botox-like technology.

Update (10:28am ET Sept. 26): US president Donald Trump has tweeted about Puerto Rico’s power outage.

Some of the world’s largest food companies and retailers today (Sept. 20) have agreed to standardize expiration labels on packaging, a move that will give consumers a better idea of how long they have before products go bad.

Refugees from three countries this week gathered in the childhood home of US president Donald Trump and nibbled on Dunkin’ Donuts. It was a clever bit of political theatre in Queens, New York, as world leaders convened 12 miles away at the United Nations to discuss, among other things, refugee crises around the globe.

Police in St. Louis, Missouri arrested more than 80 people Sunday (Sept. 17) in the third day of protests following a judge’s decision to acquit a white former officer charged in the 2011 death of a black man. As police responded to protesters—some of whom smashed windows and flipped over garbage cans—at least one group of  officers was caught on camera shouting “Whose streets? Our streets!”

Depending upon where they are on the globe, astronomy enthusiasts today (Sept. 18) are in for another unusual treat if they look skyward at the right time.

Your reliable, plain cotton t-shirt might be on the cusp of a technological breakthrough, thanks to sugar.

The explosions are set to the tune used as the Monty Python theme song—each one a fiery ball of failure.

The idea of universal health-care in the US has traditionally been an elusive one, a far reach in a nation that relies on private insurance companies to buttress its health system. But debate around the issue has gained energy since US senator Bernie Sanders made it the centerpiece of his unsuccessful bid for the White House

China this week inked a deal with Israel that stands to give high-tech vegan meat companies an opening into the world’s most populous country.

US senator Ted Cruz is attempting to clean up an embarrassing social-media mess after his Twitter account was discovered to have “liked” a troublesome tweet.

Is your dairy-free, non-GMO “milk” made from free-range trees? This one is.

Clocking 130mph winds and bringing nearly 40 inches (102 cm) of rain to the Houston, Texas area, Hurricane Harvey has been called the most powerful storm to hit the US in 12 years. It wrought still untold damage on the region, including upon hundreds of commercial zones that supply food and general goods.

In the American South, it’s a beacon in dark places—a bright yellow sign in the middle of late-night interstate drives, a harbinger of warm comfort food served at any hour of the day.

In the wake of Hurricane Harvey’s devastation of Texas and Louisiana, Anheuser-Busch switched gears at one of its US packaging facilities to can water instead of beer.

Amazon’s $13.7 billion takeover of Whole Foods Market was approved by US regulators last week, and almost immediately the Silicon Valley online retailer issued its breathless announcement that it would lower prices at Whole Foods stores.

It turns out restaurants shouldn’t just go with their guts, not if they are serious about boosting the quality of their business and service.