Wash carrots under cool running water, using your hands or a scrub brush to remove dirt from grooves and bumps. Rinsing under ...

The water-soluble vitamins are vitamin C and vitamin B complex, which includes thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, pantothenic acid, pyridoxine, folate, biotin, and cobalamin. Vitamins can be fat-soluble or ...

There are two main types of dietary fiber: soluble and insoluble. The body processes these forms in different ways, and each carries different health benefits. Dietary fiber is a complex carbohydrate ...

If there is, or ever has been, life on Mars, the chances are it would exist in caves protected from the severe dust storms, ...

A new study identifies eight Martian caves that scientists say should be prioritized in future life-search missions.

Scientists have developed a dissolvable battery using probiotics — live microorganisms that offer health benefits. Powered by the same probiotics found in yogurt and health supplements, the device ...

You’ve heard about them growing up, you’ve seen them on food packaging, and you’ve read about them in nutrition articles: Vitamins. You've probably heard common phrases like: "Take your vitamins,” ...

When Aaron Mickelson decided to tackle the problem of packaging waste for his Pratt Institute master’s design thesis The Disappearing Package last year, he wanted to go further than minimizing package ...

A Korean research team has developed water treatment adsorbent that can selectively remove water-soluble micromolecules. It is also cheap, easily synthesized and renewable. Professor Cafer T. Yavuz ...

These days, any designer worth his or her salt is grappling with ideas of waste and sustainability, trying to come up with ways to do more with less. This is especially pressing in the realm of ...

Part of the deal for the return of American Alan Gross from Cuba involved the release of a Cuban man who had served as a spy for the U.S. He's said to have provided info about Cuban spies in the U.S.