In an effort to improve American diets, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Thursday released a new definition of what it means for a food to qualify as “healthy.” Products like fruit-flavored ...

For almost 50 years, the International Council of Museums (ICOM) has defined the museum as “a nonprofit institution” that “acquires, conserves, researches, communicates, and exhibits the tangible and ...

New York Mayor Eric Adams signed an executive order Sunday evening recognizing the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism and directing city agencies to use ...

A new broadly inclusive definition of long COVID from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) has been developed with the aim of improving consistency, documentation, and ...

A National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committee is examining and recommending a new definition for Long COVID. A National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine ...

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Pluto’s status could shift yet again, as astronomers are mounting a grassroots campaign to readdress the definition of a planet. More than 300 researchers have signed a statement denouncing the ...

Columbia will make a series of sweeping changes intended to combat antisemitism amid its negotiations with the White House to restore $400 million in canceled federal funding, acting University ...

Is it time for a new definition of “planet”? UCLA astronomer and planetary scientist Jean-Luc Margot says the answer is yes. The current definition was decreed by the International Astronomical Union ...

Update, May 20th, 2019, 10AM ET: This article was originally published in November 2018. As of May 20th, 2019, World Metrology Day, the new definition of the kilogram based on Planck’s constant has ...

When is the moon not a moon? If a new proposal for defining planethood is adopted, the moon could be considered a planet in its own right. The meaning of the word “planet” has been a sore point since ...