Scientists made a process that turns gas into fuel, but now they’re tweaking it to make fake butter or oil that you could eat.

This is a factory process that turns gas into stuff like diesel or wax — it was made to make fuel for machines, not food for people.

Some restaurants and food companies are using man-made fats made in factories instead of real animal fats like butter or lard, and they’re not telling customers — so you might be eating them without knowing.

Scientists can make synthetic fats in a factory that mimic the exact structure of natural fats like butter, lard, and coconut oil, and they can make them in big enough amounts to be useful.

The oily stuff made by a special cobalt catalyst in a chemical process isn't ready to use as gas or diesel yet—it needs to be cleaned up or tweaked first.

Under hot, watery conditions similar to those deep under the ocean, certain chemical reactions can make oily molecules similar to those found in living things — from very small ones to really big ones, including both plain oils and oils with oxygen in them.