Samantha Bonar

Dutch scientists have used stem cells to create strips of muscle tissue with which they say they will be able to produce the first lab-grown "hamburger" by the end of the year, BBC News reports. Their goal is to find a more efficient (and cruelty-free) way to produce meat than......

Are you unemployed? Hungry? Have you always wanted to be an astronaut? NASA may have just the job for you. The space agency is seeking six volunteers to live on a simulated Mars base on a Hawaiian lava flow for four months to test meals that could be served on......

Arsenic is totally bad for you. Even if it doesn't kill you a la the classic "old lace" cocktail, small amounts have been associated with raising the risk for cancer and heart disease. Chronic arsenic ingestion in the young appears to result in dumb children (low IQ and "poor intellectual......

Shrink-size me? Candy bar maker Mars Inc. has announced that it is doing away with king-size candy bars. The company says that by the end of 2013, it will only sell chocolate products that have 250 calories per portion, the Chicago Tribune reports. While some might see the move as......

Remember Bill Cosby's classic 1982 routine about feeding his kids chocolate cake for breakfast? It went like this: "The child wanted chocolate cake for breakfast! How ridiculous! ... And someone in my brain looked under chocolate cake and saw the ingredients: eggs! Eggs are in chocolate cake! And milk! Oh......

This week's pre-Valentine's Day Food Fight pits a cute little mom-and-son candy shop against a sophisticated European chocolatier. This well-matched bout won't be over until the combatants are oozing cherry cordial. See's Famous Old Time Candies was founded in 1921 on Western Avenue in Los Angeles by Charles See using......

When there was a multistate outbreak of Salmonella enteritidis in October, the Centers for Disease Control would identify the culprit only as "Mexican-style, fast-food Restaurant Chain A." Turns out, that's longhand for Taco Bell. At the time, the CDC refused to name the restaurant chain, saying there was no public-health......

Occupy cornfields! Support is growing for a petition calling for the ouster of Michael Taylor, a senior adviser for the FDA who formerly served as vice president of Monsanto, the controversial agricultural multinational at the forefront of genetically modified foods, the Washington Post reports. President Obama took a lot of......

McDonald's Chicken McNuggets are causing all sorts of mayhem lately. First there was the woman who allegedly tried to trade sex for McNuggets (no word on what kind of dipping sauce she wanted). Now, a British teenager has collapsed after a lifetime of eating McNuggets, and only McNuggets. According to......

Oh bacon, is there no end to the blessings you bestow? Stuffing raw bacon up your nose stops uncontrollable nosebleeds, according to research recently published in a respected medical journal. What other medical cure smells so delicious? Four doctors at Detroit Medical Center in Michigan treated a child who had......