Our food and our bodies are full of tiny protein fragments called peptides. These small chains of amino acids act as biological messengers, influencing processes ranging from sensory perception to ...

A systematic review of 161 peer-reviewed publications found that AI research in food safety has expanded rapidly, rising from ...

Florida health officials face fierce pushback from independent scientific experts and candy manufacturers after releasing a ...

Leading scientists and nonprofits that say they — and the public — are fed up with regulatory inaction back a new movement to ...

AI writing tools are supercharging scientific productivity, with researchers posting up to 50% more papers after adopting them. The biggest beneficiaries are scientists who don’t speak English as a ...

Google DeepMind and Edison Scientific are on an ambitious mission to build the AI scientist. These platforms propose to automate the scientific method using reasoning systems that connect hypothesis ...

Modern nutrition science has continued to see food through numbers. Calories, macronutrients, ingredient lists, and percent daily values have become the primary language of eating. This approach, ...

Penn researchers have developed a smarter AI method for solving notoriously difficult inverse equations, which help scientists uncover hidden causes behind observable effects. By introducing ...

This project is funded in part by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation through Grant GBMF10224, and the National Science Foundation under Grant GBMF10224 to the National Academy of Sciences. Any ...

Brandon Ogbunu is a computational biologist whose research investigates complex problems in epidemiology, genetics, and evolution; an associate professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary ...

The dismissals from an independent board that oversees the National Science Foundation marked the president’s latest assault on scientific research organizations. By Adam Sella The Trump ...

Ultraprocessed foods and beverages (UPFs) pose a growing public health challenge. Commonly defined by the Nova system, UPFs are industrially processed products made with additives or ingredients not ...