Amy Fleming: A guide from 1948 still contains the best advice about cocktail-making – but modern mixologists use plenty of 21st-century science, too. Is all that effort worth it?
25 Jul 2014: Justin Kerswell: As much as 92% of all chicken is contaminated with faecal matter, while intensive livestock production crams 30,000 birds living in their own excrement into a single shed
23 Jul 2014:
Two-thirds of fresh retail chicken in the UK is contaminated with campylobacter, a nasty bug that affects about 280,000 people a year. We investigate why
Growing meat in labs could cut hunger, tackle climate change and end animal slaughter, but creator Professor Mark Post says the biggest beef will be convincing consumers
7 Jul 2014:
Were
vegetarian sausages invented during the first world war? Why did the German government
slaughter 9 million pigs in 1915? Vanessa
Heggie explores the surprising connections between war and pork products
We look back at Apple's tech products, including game-changers such as the iMac and iPhone, curiosities like Lisa – and duds, like the 20th Anniversary Macintosh