12-12-20 Over the last half decade, it has become increasingly clear that the normal gastrointestinal（胃肠的） (GI) bacteria play a variety of very important roles in the biology of human and animals. Now Vic Norris of the University of Rouen, France, and c...

12-12-08 The Mayan calendar predicts that the end of the world is less than a month away - but there are some Britons who are taking the doomsday prophecy more seriously than most. 距离玛雅立法预言的世界末日的到来已不足一个月，一些英国人在各方面做着避难的准...

12-12-07 The catastrophic drought last year in the Horn of Africa affected millions of people but also caused the extremely late arrival into northern Europe of several migratory songbird species, a study published December 6 in Science shows. Details of the...

12-12-07 The ability to detect rotten food is so crucial for survival that even flies have a dedicated neural circuit to do just that, according to a study published on December 6th in the Cell Press journal Cell. The brain circuit allows flies to avoid feed...

12-12-03 Rates of childhood obesity have tripled in the past 30 years, and food marketing has been implicated as one factor contributing to this trend. Every year, companies spend more than $10 billion in the US marketing their food and beverages to children...

12-11-27 100-foot diet is a diet that consists mostly or exclusively of food grown in one's garden. 100-foot diet指餐桌上的食物大部分或者全部来自于自家花园产出的作物，称为自产绿色食品。 The 100-foot diet emphasizes on reducing one's carbon footprint by growi...

12-11-06 A cockatoo（风头鹦鹉） from a species not known to use tools in the wild has been observed spontaneously making and using tools for reaching food and other objects. A Goffin's cockatoo called 'Figaro', that has been reared in captivity and lives nea...

12-11-01 Fears are growing of food shortages in Haiti, after the strong winds and heavy rain of Hurricane Sandy caused extensive crop damage. 飓风仙蒂带来的强风暴雨对海地大量作物造成破坏，人们对食物短缺的担忧正在增长。 Aid workers and officials are also warn...

12-10-30 The Cretaceous Period（白垩纪） of Earth history ended with a mass extinction that wiped out numerous species, most famously the dinosaurs. A new study now finds that the structure of North American ecosystems made the extinction worse than it might...

12-10-17 The humble fruit fly may have something to teach us about forgoing（放弃，停止） empty calories for more nutritional ones -- especially when we're hungry. While the flies initially prefer food with a sweet flavour, they quickly learn to opt for less...