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.

Biting midge flies may be one of several insects that help chocolate plants turn flowers into fruit. This month, in Philadelphia, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University opens “Chocolate: ...

Today feels like Christmas, because science has explained to us why we should eat chocolate for breakfast. Yes, I know a lot of us were already doing this thanks to things like Cocoa Krispies and ...

Chocolate is the most widely and frequently craved food, but our passion for chocolate, and its effects on mood, is due mainly to its principal constituents, sugar and fat, and their related ...

In October of 1671, French aristocrat Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, penned a note to her daughter: “I have reconciled myself to chocolate,” she wrote. “I took it the day before ...

While love for chocolate is simple to understand, the science behind creating this tasty substance is much more complex. Physicist Naveen Sinha joined Rick and Michael Mast, owners of Mast Brothers ...

Chocolate and coffee seem to go together perfectly. Think of a double-shot mocha at the corner coffee shop. Yet, the two ingredients appear to have opposite effects on a person’s arteries, according ...

Scientists have used X-ray to peer into the sweet brown heart of chocolate to discover what causes it to turn white. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as enthralled ...

As if you needed another reason to eat chocolate, German researchers have shown that ingesting types rich in cocoa solids and flavonoids—dark chocolate—can fight skin cancer. Their findings are ...