Scientists extracted 4,500-year-old yeast from Egyptian pottery to use in breadmaking.

Archaeologists find ring-shaped objects made from grains at a site in Austria thought to date back to 960 BCE.

Drastic dietary changes during the agricultural revolution altered the configuration of the human bite, paving the way for new sounds in spoken language, a new study finds.

A Minnesota-based company reports the sale of a soybean oil engineered to have greater stability and no trans-fat.

Despite previous positive reports, researchers didn’t see transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) cut back on people’s urges or eating.

The modification beefed up plant biomass by 40 percent in field tests.

Scientists have found traces of the dairy product in 7,200-year-old pottery in Croatia.

In mice, seeing and smelling food causes immediate cellular changes that ready the liver to convert incoming amino acids to proteins.

While farmers have the green light to grow the genetically engineered plant, FDA approval is still needed before the seeds are sold as food.