Researchers in California report a key advance in efforts to use inkjet printing technology in the manufacture of a new generation of low cost, high-performance electronic circuits for flexible video displays and other products.

Ever since a forward-thinking trio of physicists identified the phenomenon known as self-organized criticality-a mechanism by which complexity arises in nature-scientists have been applying its concepts to everything from economics to avalanches.

Pregnant women have long been warned of the dangers of drinking, smoking and drug use. But now researchers in the United States say caffeine could be just as harmful.

Starbucks' website is not the same as the coffee maker used to be before. If you visit Starbuck's website today you will see basically just a message from the founder and come-back CEO Howard Schultz, who is again back to the post of CEO of Starbucks. Schultz in a lengthy message thanks the customers of Starbucks and assures of upcoming opportunities

Coffee is an effective countermeasure to sleepiness for both young and middle-aged people. However, napping is more efficient in young than in middle-aged people, according to a study published in the December 1 issue of the journal SLEEP.

With prices of gourmet coffee approaching sticker-shock levels, scientists in Illinois are reporting development of a method to “fingerprint” coffee to detect when corn has been mixed in to short-change customers. Their study is in the Aug. 8 issue of ACS’s Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, a bi-weekly journal.

Bitter taste can ruin a cup of coffee. Now, chemists in Germany and the United States say they have identified the chemicals that appear to be largely responsible for java's bitterness, a finding that could one day lead to a better tasting brew.

Drinking more than three cups of coffee a day helps protect older women against some age-related memory decline, French researchers say. However, they say men did not enjoy the same benefit.

After lung and stomach cancer, liver cancer is the third largest cause of cancer deaths in the world. A new study on the relationship between coffee drinking and the risk of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) confirmed that there is an inverse association between coffee consumption and HCC, although the reasons for this relationship are still unresolved.

JP's Java Celebrates Clover Launch With In-Store Sampling, Demos With Master Roaster Jeff Babcock of Seattle's Zoka Coffee

A Cameroonian coffee official is looking for American investors to help promote his country's coffee in the United States. Mongwe Christopher Mbah is the general manager of the main cooperative coffee marketing organization in northwest Cameroon.