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Michelle Spear, University of Bristol, The Conversation ...

Our taste for bread and pasta wouldn't be the same if not for our ability to break down starch, a talent Peru's Andean populations have taken to the extreme.

It's generally believed that the most complex systems of our world began from very simple things. Then, as a force of survival, evolution began to occur, and things gradually became more complex. This same perspective applies to science's general ...

Humans are eating more fructose than ever and it's becoming problematic -- not just for our widening waistlines but for our brains, mounting research suggests.