The 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth has prompted a lot of reflection this year on how our understanding of evolution has progressed since the introduction of his theory. One persistent ...

Mice put on monodiets of raw sweet potatoes can't absorb as many of the tubers' calories, shunting undigested starch to the microbes in their colon. Image Credit: piyaset, iStock Share At least ...

Did the modern human species arise after our ancestors started cooking their food? In his new book, "Catching Fire", Richard Wrangham argues that is was the practice of cooking food that was central ...

This illustration provided by Tel Aviv University depicts hominins preparing Luciobarbus longiceps fish on the shores of the ancient lake Lake Hula. A recent study found the oldest evidence of using ...

The shift to a cooked-food diet was a decisive point in human history. The main topic of debate is when, exactly, this change occurred. All known human societies eat cooked foods, and biologists ...

Scientists have shown for the first time that cooking food fundamentally alters the microbiomes of both mice and humans, a finding with implications both for optimizing our microbial health and for ...

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Liberty Energy (NYSE: LBRT), a leading North American energy services company, is proud to announce the establishment of the Bettering Human Lives Foundation, a non-profit ...