Chocolate is delicious – that’s a fact backed up by research. The question, really, is why a bite into its scrumptious goodness is enough to send a person into an utter state of bliss. Enter science.

From improved blood pressure to anti-aging effects, these are the 10 bigggest health benefits of eating dark chocolate.

Few can deny that one of life's greatest gustatory pleasures is that first silky smooth release of fat, sugar and cocoa that comes after biting into a favorite piece of chocolate. While many of us ...

For years, dark chocolate has been marketed as an indulgence with a health halo, but new research goes further, tying one of ...

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University is getting federal funding for a sweet cause. N.C. A&T and associate professor Roberta Claro de Silva have been awarded a grant from the U.S.

It’s been a bad month for science. First, a highly-cited study published in Science that found that voters’ opinions on same-sex marriage could be swayed by conversations with openly gay canvassers ...

When you eat a piece of good chocolate, chances are you don’t just bite down and chew away. There’s a good chance you hold the chocolate in your mouth for a moment, feeling the silkiness as it softens ...

Scientists have decoded the physical process that takes place in the mouth when a piece of chocolate is eaten, as it changes from a solid into a smooth emulsion that many people find totally ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Chocolate and science come together in a unique way through one local small business run by an LSU student and her mother. Maram Khalaf is a biological science major at LSU.

And it is time now for science news roundup from Short Wave. That is NPR's science podcast. I am joined this week by Emily Kwong. Hi there. EMILY KWONG, BYLINE: Hi. KELLY: And Hannah Chinn - hey to ...