If you think you've heard it all when it comes to food, think again. Recently, 36 restaurants in Xinhua, China were accused of cooking up their cuisine with poppy capsules, among other illegal substances, in an effort to make dishes more addictive, increase sales and entice customers to come back for more.

As far as information goes, once our wrists only carried time. Then came music, and recently, heart rates. But now a team of California researchers has developed a wearable wrist device that seeks to tell us about the body's inner workings by "drinking" sweat from our wrists and analyzing it.

In science, a product passes reasonable safety tests and is deemed safe until shown otherwise. To modern food activists, alleging food is unsafe is a mercenary tactic to sell new fads.

The ABC News affiliate in Denver and The New American talked to Dr. Gil Ross about the Zika virus, and how a pesticide that hasn't been used in the United States for over 40 years might be the solution.

The renewed campaign against Type-2 diabetes is in full force with the launch of a website that seeks to identify Americans who might become diabetic. But in a medical environment often plagued by over-diagnosis and over-prescription, is this new tool -- which could potentially impact more than 80 million people -- really necessary?

There have been several cases of sexually transmitted Zika virus. Will this be the exception or the norm? It's too soon to tell, but two other viruses provide us with some clues.

Itchy bedbug bites are hardly a thing of the past, since resistance to commonly-used pesticides is on the rise. Not only are the critters basically laughing at older chemicals, the resistance seems to be carrying over to newer ones as well. A precipitous rise in the bedbug population may be in our future.

The mosquito-borne Zika virus has been declared a global public health crisis by the World Health Organization, but the agency did not say how to effectively fight it. One way would be to allow widespread use of DDT, which eradicated that same mosquito during the 20th century.

Three-dimensional bioprinting is offering science a real hope of creating organs needed for transplants. With about 75,000 patients waiting on any given day, and an average of 22 people dying daily while hoping to receive a transplant, the need is acute to say the least.

Nitrogen triiodide is exceedingly cool stuff. The purple solid is very easy to make, but you better keep it wet. Once dry, it's a powerful contact explosive which could theoretically be useful for practical jokes. I know, because I survived after someone played one on me.