Color: Dutch-process cocoa is darker and produces baked goods with a deeper brown hue, while natural cocoa tends to give off ...

Late next year, across the street from a Beam Suntory whiskey distillery in Kentucky, anaerobic digesters will turn spent grains from the distilling process into a biogas. Anaerobic digesters are ...

Natural rubber, tapped from trees as latex, is the world's most widely used bio-elastomer. Comprising long molecular chains ...

Engineers have created a chemical system that continually produces useful crude oil minutes after they pour in raw algae material -- a green paste with the consistency of pea soup. The technology ...

Like chocolate, cocoa powder is made from cacao beans. After the beans are processed into a paste known as chocolate liqueur, some of the cocoa butter is removed and the remaining solids are ...

As much as the best baristas in America can control a cup of coffee when the kettles are steaming and the scales are beeping, the fate of a bean is sealed far earlier, while still in its green state ...

Since the time of the ancient Greeks, doctors and philosophers have argued whether ageing is a disease or a natural process. Many authors of the Hippocratic Corpus argued that growing old invariably ...