Researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas have created a portable food safety device they hope will one day be used at ...

We May Be Eating Microbes Soon, and That’s a Good Thing Scientists and entrepreneurs have big goals for tiny organisms, from feeding people in war zones to curbing climate impacts.

Scientists in Germany have developed a method to obtain protein and vitamin B9 from microbes by providing them with little ...

Many foods (and not just garlic) can impact the way someone smells — but there are ways to mitigate the effects ...

Using bacteria to take a bite out of plastic pollution is not new. But can the same microbes be used as a food source?

Seeking new foods, scientists look to bacteria, algae and more "Edible microbes face considerable hurdles to going mainstream, however" ...

What bacteria and fungi are in the foods we eat? Scientists have analysed what’s in more than 2,500 different foods to create a ‘food microbiome’.

Experiments in mice show that some gut bacteria can absorb toxic PFAS chemicals, allowing animals to expel them through feces.

This year's $500,000 World Food Prize, for advances in agriculture and nutrition, goes to Mariangela Hungria, who boosted Brazil's farming revolution, turning the country into a soybean superpower.