The thrill of the hunt: Foraging for edible gold on Vancouver Island

Leaning down, I use the John Deere pocketknife Riddick lent me to gently slice the stems, my other hand gently cradling the caps so they don’t tumble onto the ground and get damaged by the fall. You have to be very careful with wild mushrooms—they’re temperamental creatures. Golden chanterelles will start popping a couple of […]

Super-thin edible sensors can monitor food temperature

Biomaterials that are rigid in form but able to degrade safely are everywhere. You can find tech like this in medical implants, environmental sensors and wearable, disposable devices. What’s harder to do, though, is to make sensors that you can digest. That’s exactly what Swiss researchers in Zurich have created, though: a thin, edible sensor […]