Ultraprocessed” has become a bad word in our food supply, but regulators are struggling with how to define the term to help consumers. Here’s why that’s so hard to do.

Viewed this way, a definition is a decision mechanism. It distinguishes some elements of the universe from the others. Hence ...

The Trump administration is soon expected to propose a plan that would cap loans for a number of advanced degrees—including master’s and doctoral degrees in nursing—and it’s gone viral on social media ...

Depending on who you ask, THCA is either the future of cannabis or the latest hemp loophole. It’s the molecule turning “legal” hemp flower into a legitimate high—the chemistry trick that’s reshaping ...

Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani said he would drop a Holocaust remembrance group’s definition of “antisemitism” if he becomes mayor — a turnaround in police that has some Jewish rights ...

Artificial intelligence in the healthcare field is full of promise but still under-adopted, according to Chirag Shah, partner at Define Ventures. Last month, the venture capital firm published its AI ...

A vast discrepancy in how researchers define long COVID is hindering understanding and treatment of the disease, a new study suggests. “Without a clinically usable and standardized research definition ...

A new review finally puts numbers to the “flexitarian” diet, and shows that the world’s nutrition advice is shifting toward more flexible, plant-rich eating, even if the name stays unofficial. Review: ...

The adoption of the new “clinical obesity” definition alters prevalence estimates of obesity in many parts of the world compared with BMI-based definitions, new data suggested. In January 2025, a ...

WASHINGTON — The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) are publishing a joint request for information (RFI) in the Federal Register July 24 ...

When is an AI system intelligent enough to be called artificial general intelligence (AGI)? According to one definition reportedly agreed upon by Microsoft and OpenAI, the answer lies in economics: ...

Julian Hargreaves is an Affiliated Researcher at the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge. The UK government wants a new definition of Islamophobia and has ...