Healthy eating is a weighty issue in the United States, where more than 14 million U.S. children have obesity, which means they are 20% or more above their recommended weight and could face serious ...

For most people who celebrate Christmas, it would be hard to imagine the holiday without the iconic centerpiece of a decked out evergreen. Each year, an estimated 25-30 million Christmas trees are ...

Christmas is over, you’ve taken the ornaments off the tree, but instead of dragging the Christmas tree to the curb, why don’t you … eat it? London’s Julia Georgallis recently released a 30-recipe ...

Christmas is over and the annual question arises: when do you toss the tree? Do you rush yours out of the house by New Year's, wait till after the first of the year, or do you put it off till all the ...

The largest meat-eating plant in the world is designed not to eat small animals, but small animal poo. Botanists have discovered that the giant montane pitcher plant of Borneo has a pitcher the exact ...

Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau. He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, although he has covered a wide variety of topics ranging ...

An estimated 100 million American homes will put up a Christmas tree this holiday season. Of those trees, draped, decorated, and lit, about 81 percent will be artificial and 19 percent will be real, ...