Every year, there’s a new lineup of such curious clinical conditions. There are always some unfortunate souls to mark medical ...

Diatomaceous earth is a white powder made from crushed ancient diatom fossils. Its sharp edges damage insect bodies, making ...

When you think of fearless eaters, Andrew Zimmern is basically the final boss. The man has eaten eyeballs, bugs, mystery ...

This year, researchers took a bite out of culinary innovation. Check out some of our favorite food-related stories from 2025.

In millions of Indian kitchens pork, beef and offal, horrifying to upper-caste Hindus, take centre stage. Generations of ...

Food connects cultures, tells stories, and defines traditions, but not all dishes are universally celebrated. Some have sparked outrage, others are steeped in controversy, and a few have even been ...

Maggots may be the key to more accurately determining when people died, according to Florida researchers, pointing to the genetic makeup of larvae. The findings build on previous methods that ...

A lot of things can attack Hornet in Silksong, but one of the grossest has to be the maggots. Fall into the wrong water and you’ll get covered in the wiggly things. There aren’t a lot of ways to ...

Melanie Beasley received funding from the Haslam Foundation for this research. Scientists long thought that Neanderthals were avid meat eaters. Based on chemical analysis of Neanderthal remains, it ...

The federal government is planning to breed millions of flies and dump them over Mexico and Texas via airplanes in an effort to combat a flesh-eating maggot. The pest being targeted is the ...

Medical professionals across the globe are rediscovering an ancient healing practice that predates modern antibiotics by thousands of years. Maggot therapy, also known as larval debridement therapy, ...

Growths on plants formed by parasitic weevils help their offspring hunker down on a Brazilian savanna and outlast the flames. By Gennaro Tomma Living things have long needed to find ways to survive ...