Collaborate Disseminate
The Air Force is having a moment regarding a decision to abort an exercise due to sleep loss. “If it was a real world sortie, I can guarantee that those crews would get their energy drinks of choice, roll out to the plane, and fly to defend our nation,… Continue reading “Quitting” When Unready: A Curious Case of Sleep Loss
Current plastic films do a great job of keeping food fresh while it sits on the supermarket shelf, but lately we’re seeing advanced forms of these materials that might play more than a passive role in preventing spoilage. A new “bioactive” material fro… Continue reading Bioactive plastic made with mango leaves protects food from bugs and UV
Food security is a major potential problem, especially in the face of climate change. Now, researchers have shown that manipulating RNA in plants can drastically boost the amount of food they produce, and make them more resistant to drought conditions…. Continue reading Simple RNA tweak boosts potato and rice yields by 50 percent
Ensuring food safety compliance can be challenging at one restaurant, Zenput developed technology aimed at making sure operating procedures are quickly adapted so that businesses maintain quality. Continue reading Zenput raises $27M Series C to keep multiunit operations flowing no matter the location
Choco is digitizing the food supply chain as the United States estimates of the food produced here approximately 40% is wasted. Continue reading Choco bites into $100M Series B, at a $600M valuation, to build a more transparent, sustainable food supply chain
Halla wants to answer the question of how people decide what to eat and now has $4.5 million in fresh Series A1 capital from Food Retail Ventures to do it. Continue reading Taste intelligence startup Halla closes $4.5M Series A1 to predict which grocery items shoppers will buy
Given how meat-like some plant-based meat substitutes have become, it’s understandable that many people are considering simply switching over to them. According to new research, however, the two food types are far from being nutritionally identical.Con… Continue reading Study confirms that beef and its substitutes differ nutritionally
From Singapore to the International Space Station, we’re starting to see how cultured, or lab-grown, meat might soon make its way out of the lab and into everyday diets, and a newly opened factory in Israel should do plenty to help things along. Billed… Continue reading World’s first lab-grown-meat factory opens in Israel
Microwavable packets and brimming machines at the cinema make popping corn seem like a simple undertaking, but there are number of factors that turn rock hard kernels into crunchy puffs of buttery goodness. Researchers digging into the science behind p… Continue reading Study digs into the science of what makes popcorn pop
A domain called motherfrunker has compiled a huge list of lies. It’s really quite amazing Tesla operates as such an obvious scam. Here a just a few examples out of the dozens: September 2014: They will be a factor of 10 safer than a person [at the whee… Continue reading Timeline of Lies About Tesla “FSD”