Cucumbers are made up of about 96% water and contain beneficial nutrients like vitamin C, vitamin K, potassium, and fiber. Eating them unpeeled maximizes their nutritional value. Cucumbers may help ...

What does it mean to be alive? A new study on an astonishing sea creature suggests the answer may be more complicated than it seems. Some amputated fragments of Psolus fabricii — a type of sea ...

Lindsey DeSoto, RD, is a nutrition writer, medical reviewer, and registered dietitian who helps clients improve their diet for health-related reasons. Her writing covers a variety of topics, including ...

If you’re scanning the produce aisles at the grocery store, it can be difficult to recognize a zucchini vs. cucumber from a few steps away. Frankly, it can still be difficult to tell these two oblong, ...

Take a look at squirting cucumber explosive seed dispersal in real time and slowed down. Credit: Helen Gorges/CC BY-NC-ND One doesn’t normally associate ballistics with botany, but most of us don’t ...

A salmonella outbreak tore through the country last spring and summer, infecting more than 550 people and sending 155 to the hospital. Limited time: Save 25% on NBC News subscription Get exclusive ...