Food Studies - Page 9

February 22, 2024

NYC spending $53M on migrant prepaid debit cards with 1 in 4 kids living in poverty

A new study has revealed that 2 million New York City residents are living in poverty, including one in four children, as $53 million is being spent on asylum seeker credit cards.

January 23, 2024

Will AI ever outsmart humans? In some ways, it already has

Artificial intelligence continues to grow and become more capable, a development that has led to fears that one day the new technology will be smarter than humans.

January 9, 2024

Microplastics found in overwhelming majority of American meat, water, plants: study

A new study from the University of Toronto and Ocean Conservancy found that an overwhelming majority of American protein food samples were contaminated with microplastics.

January 7, 2024

What we thought we knew about T rex was wrong, researchers say in new study

A new fossil study is casting doubt on long-held beliefs that smaller versions of the Tyrannosaurs rex were adolescent versions of their famous adult counterparts.

December 11, 2023

Optimism linked to bad decision-making, lower cognitive ability: study

Optimism is a widespread and generally lauded human trait, but the results of a new study suggest that overly optimistic people are more likely to make bad decisions.

December 3, 2023

New study claims 'structural racism' played role in Black Death

A new study claims that Black women were the most likely people in London to die from the Black Death in the Middle Ages as a result of the "structural racism" they experienced.

October 26, 2023

Robots could create a more reliable Wikipedia: study

The use of AI to create or police online encyclopedias like Wikipedia could result in a more accurate and reliable product, according to a new study.

June 30, 2023

AI can contain gender bias, leading to potential disadvantages for women, expert says

The tech industry itself suffers from a lack of female perspective, with women comprising only around one-third of employees and just a little less than that at top tech firms.

May 17, 2023

Britain baffled by shocking surge in death rates last year with no clear cause

The first few months of 2022 recorded below-average excess deaths before seeing a spike that went above the five-year average in by tens of thousands of deaths.

October 17, 2022

Healthy living habits include eating dinner earlier — it may also help keep weight down

A study published in Cell Metabolism found that eating later in the day doubled the odds of feeling hungry, compared to early eating — experts suggest ways to enhance healthy living habits.