M&M’s Darwinism: Why the Blue Ones Are Inferior

February 11, 2013 // 2:45 pm

I’m pretty sure I wasn’t the only one to sort my M&Ms into piles according to color (candy segregation is not cool, folks) when I was younger, working backwards from orange to green so I could save my favorite for last. Of course, none of this had any real…

Science Creates the World’s First Alcoholism Vaccine

January 25, 2013 // 2:27 pm

Scientists in Chile have spent the past year designing a drug that will give anyone who drinks alcohol an immediate (and very nasty) hangover.

We won’t lie, that sounds like a pretty evil plan, but it’s for a good cause — they’re trying to treat addiction. A research team…

Here’s How to Extract Iron from Your Cereal [Video]

January 23, 2013 // 1:13 pm

Food isn’t fun, said no one ever.

The thing is, food is REALLY fun. And it’s maybe even more so when it merges with science.

Don’t want to believe us? Just see for yourself — and indulge your inner nerd — with this awesome video which mixes your typical…

Oregon Coffee Habit Leaves Fish Swimming in Ocean of Caffeinated Waste. Literally.

January 9, 2013 // 1:09 pm

The espresso-soaked streets of Oregon’s cities are often hailed as a mecca for coffee fanatics, where the plaid-clad residents enjoy everything from Starbucks lattes to locally brewed artisan coffees. But Oregon’s caffeine addiction has created an entirely new category of unwillingly caffeinated residents — the marine wildlife off of…

Apparently, Science Says Hot Chocolate Tastes Better in an Orange Cup

January 8, 2013 // 12:47 pm

Next time you’re pouring hot chocolate, reach for an orange mug. Research by scientists at Oxford University and the Polytechnic University of Valencia has demonstrated that hot chocolate in an orange or crème colored cup tastes better than the same beverage served in a white or red cup. The…

Apparently, Foodbeasters Who Concoct Bizarre Food Combinations Are Also Binge Eaters

January 8, 2013 // 9:00 am

Beer and bacon deep fried Doritos, pizza ice cream, spam and peanut butter cookies – if you’re one of our regular readers, you know that we at Foodbeast are no strangers to the bizarre food combination scene. But did you also know that “concocting” such outlandish treats could…

This is What Ten McDonald’s Burgers Combined into One Looks Like

December 6, 2012 // 11:27 am

Eating ten burgers at once from McDonald’s doesn’t top the list of the healthiest choices you can make in life. But, c’mon, eating one burger won’t kill you. So here’s how RocketNews24 skirted around that problem. They simply combined the ten burgers into one, making it totally OK to…

This Burger Just Went H.A.M In Space

November 21, 2012 // 7:35 pm

This is what you do when you attend Harvard; you send burgers into space. These five students put their intellectual hard hats on and sent a peace offering up to the extraterrestrials in the form of a two-day-old hamburger.

The modern day Magellans glued the hardened, shellacked burger and…