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Schizophrenia is a devastating psychiatric disorder, often robbing individuals of their grip on reality and ability to function. So when a US Cabinet secretary claims it can be cured by changing one’s diet, the statement demands scrutiny. The science behind the ketogenic diet and schizophrenia is intriguing—but far from the miracle cure being suggested.

A failed private lawsuit accusing major food companies of engineering addictive food has been resurrected by San Francisco’s city attorney, recasting contested nutrition science as a public nuisance. The new complaint invites judges—not legislators or regulators—to redraw the boundaries of what constitutes acceptably safe food. At stake is whether litigation will become the new tool for reshaping America’s dinner table and designing healthy menus.

Metabolic Health is your body's internal systems: blood sugar levels, blood pressure, lipids, and inflammation. Poor metabolic health can drive up insulin resistance, a main culprit of heart disease, type two diabetes, among other issues.

Some breakthroughs change humanity forever. Others, not so much. This one clips discreetly onto your underwear and monitors how often you fart – the status of your flatus. And no, it's not April Fool's Day.

At a moment when ultra-processed foods, industrial agriculture, and food subsidies are under political siege, can a New York bagel reveal the power of specialization to create abundance, and the urgent policy question of how to steer our food environment toward health rather than excess?

Hedy Lamarr’s legacy extends far beyond Hollywood glamour. Behind the screen persona was an inventive mind that helped pioneer technology foundational to modern wireless communication, raising enduring questions about how society values beauty versus intellect. Her story is a cautionary tale about the biases that shape recognition of women's intellectual achievement.

Microplastics have become a hot topic in environmental science — and a reliable source of alarming headlines. A new study reports a nifty approach to removing them using genetically engineered cyanobacteria. The key ingredient is an orange-scented molecule called limonene, which "captures" the plastic. Very clever.

One of the universal challenges in human knowledge is translating what is deeply felt and implicitly understood into something explicit, communicable, and measurable. Inner experience does not easily lend itself to diagrams, equations, or biomarkers. Meditation sits on this boundary. Can the implicit language of experience be translated into the explicit language of brain dynamics? A new study suggests the answer is yes.

Food has always carried meaning, but in contemporary nutrition culture, it is increasingly treated as a moral test. In the unqualified world of wellness and nutrition influencers, foods are no longer discussed as more or less nutritious; they are labelled good or bad, clean or dirty, virtuous or problematic. Framing nutrition this way shifts the focus away from health and toward judging both food choices and the people who make them.

Constipation is often treated as a simple plumbing problem, too little movement, too much delay. But emerging research suggests that, in some people, the culprit may not be sluggish muscles or faulty nerves, but rather an unexpected partnership between common gut microbes quietly reshaping our intestinal environment.

For most of the 20th century, you could buy a laxative that looked like a chocolate bar. This seemed like a good idea until people started treating it like a chocolate bar. The story of “old” Ex-Lax is part dorm folklore, part chemistry lesson, and mostly useless. Enjoy it anyway.