Coffee beans go through a lot of changes before reaching your cup. The coffee-roasting process takes the original green coffee bean and transforms it into the light, medium, or dark versions made for ...

IT WAS THE SMELL that got me. Normally, a cup of coffee smells roasty, or meaty, or in some sad cases burnt, but this was different. This one smelled like blueberries. Not vaguely of blueberries, or ...

Genetics may be contributing towards how one perceives the taste of coffee -- 'bitter' or 'not bitter', according to a study. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, have ...

This article appeared in the July/August 2021 issue of Discover magazine as "Dissecting Decaf." Subscribe for more stories like these. For many of us, a cup of coffee is the first thing on our minds ...

Two people holding cups of coffee - Liquid Sky Studio/Getty Images Coffee beans go through a lot of changes before reaching your cup. The coffee-roasting process takes the original green coffee bean ...