Nikhil Swaminathan

How Nanotechnology Is Changing How You Eat And Taste

You might think of the tiny tech as purely industrial, but scientists are incorporating nanotechnology into food at a rapid pace, for everything from making food taste saltier without using more salt to making it harder for your body to absorb cholesterol.

The Food Packaging Of The Future: From Germ-Killing To Entirely Edible

Why not use food packaging for more than just conveying nutrition information? New innovations will soon have our food kept safe by everything from nano-bricks to delicious chocolate.

9 Apps To Help You Make Better Food Choices For Yourself And The Planet

The grocery store can be a daunting place. But armed with these handy apps, you can make informed decisions about which foods are doing the least damage to your body and the environment, and buy accordingly.

Genetically Modified Food That Prevents Cancer, Makes You Healthier

There is a lot of reasonable debate about the safety of changing the genetic makeup of things we eat, but scientists are doing amazing things with GM food–everything from cancer-preventing tomatoes to cabbages that produce their own pesticides.

Finding Organic Purity, Poisonous Milk, And The Most Expensive Coffee: High-Tech Food Tests

Because we need to know everything about where our food is from and what is in it, scientists are hard at work developing ways to measure everything from exactly where a coffee bean was grown to whether that mozzarella is made from cow’s milk.

Harvard’s EdLabs and Droga5 Use “Burner” Cellphones to Rebrand Reading

Marvell Giving $100K to Education App Developers

After announcing its sub-$100 Moby tablet in March, Marvell is prodding developers who create apps for devices like the iPod, iPhone, and Android phones to dream up software for its gadget. Starting Sunday, for a month, the chipmaker is accepting submissions for the Mobylize 100K Challenge.