Services promising scientifically tailored supplements or advice abound. Experts say their claims are largely unfounded, although some solid evidence is beginning to emerge.

Mycale grandis teams up with microbes housed inside it to gather nutrients.

The Purdue University nutrition researcher delves into the details of how fat tissue affects tumors.

Calories aren’t enough to correct malnourishment, but eating foods that spur specific microbes to grow in the gut can.

Bonobos eat their aquatic greens, perhaps to get their daily dose of iodine.

Mice exposed to heat wave temperatures ate less and showed weakened immune responses to the virus.

In mice, seeing and smelling food causes immediate cellular changes that ready the liver to convert incoming amino acids to proteins.

Shorter telomere length is widely considered a manifestation of stress in young children, but the results of a new study find it’s more complicated than that.  

The choice of an economics professor and climate change denialist is slammed by science advocates.