After months of delay, the USDA released its proposed rules governing the nutritional quality of so-called "competitive" foods and beverages offered on school campuses.  Here's an overview of the rules' key provisions and my take on some of the big issues to watch.

Who needs restaurants or heck, even cooking utensils with inventions like this? A company called EatWave Vending has created a vending machine that ac...

NEW YORK — As criticism of sugary sodas intensifies, Coke, Pepsi and Dr Pepper are rolling out new vending machines that will put calorie counts...

The Seattle School District is considering rewriting a policy enacted in 2004 that removed junk food from public schools, citing the ban's huge cut to...

Meat lovers, forget the long wait at the butcher. Now you can buy everything from New York strip steaks to juicy pork chops out of a vending machine. ...

There's nothing like a piping hot pizza (well, except when it's a piping hot pizza that burns the roof of your mouth). But somehow piping hot pizza th...

With all this talk about newfangled "social" vending machines, we find ourselves nostalgic for the vending machines of yore. Our friends at LIFE.com p...

Studies have consistently shown that when people eat healthy food, they increase productivity at work and get better test performance in students—wh...

Vending machines just got a whole lot more complicated, thanks to Pepsi's new Social Vending System. In addition to regular, old-fashioned soda vendin...

The machines went on sale last summer in Japan for around $90,0000. The lighting equipment, culture solution, and temperature can be controlled for ea...

The big push for vending machines to sell healthier snacks has overlooked something: It isn't easy for a machine to deliver an unbruised banana. The...

Banana vending machines are cool and all, but in Nanjing they've got one that sells live crabs. One Shanghai Hairy Crab costs between the equivalent o...

Companies like Dole and McDonald's are already showing the way, but they need help.