Next week, the US celebrates the dishwashing Olympicsalso known as Thanksgiving. But how best to tackle the washing-up after the big meal can cause as much conflict as your uncles hot takes at the table. Do dishes get cleaner when theyre hand-washed or

They're added to breakfast cereal, bread, and even Pop-Tarts, giving the sweetest, most processed treats a halo of health. Most people pop an extra dose for good measure, perhaps washing it down with fortified milk. But what are vitamins—and how did their

The Klamath River on the California-Oregon border was once the third largest salmon river in the continental U.S. There were so many fish, indigenous histories claim that you could cross the river walking across their backs—which made the peoples who live

Today, a half century after Neil Armstrong took one small step onto the surface of the Moon, there are still just ten humans living in spacethe crew of the International Space Station. But, after decades of talk, both government agencies and entrepreneur

To painters and poets in late-1800s France, absinthe was "the green muse" or the "green fairy," an almost magical potion that promised vivid dreams, wild ideas, and artistic inspiration with every sip. By the 1910s, this once incredibly popular herbal liq

Every day, at the end of service, restaurants throw away tons of entirely edible food: heaps of pastries and whole loaves of bread, vegetables chopped but not cooked, noodle dough, fish off-cuts, and more. An estimated 20 billion meals's worth of still ed

Its already begun: that time of the year now known across the land as Decorative Gourd Season. Squash are everywherecarved into jack olanterns on front porches, adorning our sideboards and porches with strange shapes and autumn colors, and of course, b

The produce section of most American supermarkets in the 1950s was minimal to a fault, with only a few dozen fruits and vegetables to choose from: perhaps one kind of apple, one kind of lettuce, a yellow onion, a pile of bananas. Today, grocery stores rou

Schools back in session, and kids are boarding the bus with lunchboxes in tow. Many of them contain sandwiches stuffed with turkey and ham slices, bologna, even salamibut where did these staples of the lunch break, not to mention the charcuterie platter

About ten years ago, insects were constantly being hyped as the future of food. Headlines proclaimed that, within the decade, everyone would be eating bugs as part of their daily dietand saving the planet in the process. But while the buzz on edible inse