Every year, significant quantities of food are wasted by countries worldwide. In the United States alone, approximately one-fifth of food products are discarded due to consumer uncertainty regarding expiration labels. However, the majority of grocery items remain perfectly safe to consume even after their listed expiration dates. If these dates don’t indicate spoilage, what purpose […]

Every day, billions of people depend on a century-old chemical reaction to create a large part of the world’s food supply: combining nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas to create ammonia, and down the line, fertilizers. But this seemingly innocent reaction has a dark side. It devours a whopping 1% of the world’s entire energy supply […]