Science of the Future
EU bureaucrats are finally catching up to the gene editing revolution in food and agriculture
For decades, "Made in Europe" has been synonymous with a hard-line stance against anything remotely resembling genetic modification. But the ...
Viewpoint: Why are there no approved bioengineered insect-protected (Bt) apples?
642 separate Bioengineered (aka, GM/GMO, recombinant DNA) events, of 42 traits, in 32 different crops or plants have received regulatory ...
Is cellular reprogramming junk science? Nearly 20 patients are getting eye injections in the first FDA-cleared cellular trial
It's a pivotal moment for longevity science, the first opportunity for researchers to prove that epigenetic reprogramming — a technique ...
Why the human genome is less a script than a puzzle
It’s now clear that understanding the human genome is no longer a matter of figuring out what each gene does ...
Trump administration pushes to bring AI “doctors” into U.S. healthcare. The promise — and the risks.
Today, chatbots can only legally offer medical guidance with a disclaimer attached: Neither the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, nor ...
Viewpoint—Recursive self-improvement: AI leader Anthropic calls for AI slowdown
For most of AI’s history, humans drove every step in its development cycle. But at Anthropic, we are delegating a ...
What’s behind Anthropic’s warning about the accelerating development of AI
Recursive self-improvement is when an AI system designs, builds, and trains a better version of itself without humans involved. Put ...
Who’s responsible when AI lies? Google challenging court ruling that search results are not protected from legal liability
Google said it will appeal a German court ruling that holds the company directly liable for false statements produced by ...
Six key health insights from taking weight-loss drugs
Tens of millions of people around the world are now taking drugs like Ozempic — a kind of real-time experiment ...
Viewpoint—‘The gleeful efficiency of an arsonist’: Administration’s health and science research cuts are ‘sabotaging’ America’s future
There is a word for what the federal government has done to American science during the past year and a ...
Viewpoint: Scientists have scrapped the worst-case climate scenario. Is that proof that climate change is a hoax, as Trump claims?
When major new climate change scenarios are released, there’s always strong interest. These scenarios lay out what our future climate ...
‘You don’t understand Tolkien’: Skeptic Pope trolls tech giants about the exaggerated, risk-less benefits of AI
[T]he Tolkien nod is particularly salient given some backward interpretations of Middle-earth mythology by right-wing billionaires like Peter Thiel and ...
Challenging anti-GMO disinformation: Why genetically-tweaked crops offer bushels of benefits
GMOs are one of the most controversial topics within our global food system. There are many misconceptions regarding what a GMO ...
Viewpoint: Can mRNA research survive the Trump administration?
In December 2020, mRNA vaccines leapt into the limelight as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. To date, millions of ...
Magnifica Humanitas: Pope’s encyclical broadside against AI naivete and overreach
In his first encyclical, Pope Leo XIV put forth a defense of human dignity in the era of AI, delivering ...
Sounds we can’t hear — the hidden planetary signals behind science, fear, and misinformation
Most of us think of sound as something we can hear: music, speech, barking dogs, thunder, or the roar of ...
31 states have passed a confusing collection of regulations for cell-based meat and plant and insect alternative proteins
Over the past several years, the regulation of alternative proteins has received a lot of attention at the state level ...
‘It’s not super useful’: As wariness about AI grows, Trump proposes rollback of healthcare safeguards
Paul Boyer, a psychotherapist for Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, California, is experiencing the AI revolution firsthand. He’s a little underwhelmed ...
The Orange Bowl without oranges: Can CRISPR save Florida citrus?
The famous Orange Bowl may still host an annual New Year’s Day football game after 91 years in celebration of ...
UK gene-editing milestone: Livestock barley that increases ruminant value and reduces methane emissions is first-approved CRISPR crop
The UK has issued the first regulatory approval for a gene-edited crop under its new rules for precision breeding. The ...
AI likely to improve health care, research shows—but not for blacks and ethnic minorities
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being integrated into health care, including but not limited to diagnosis and treatment plans, drug development, prediction of health risks and ...
Defying death: The immortality movement goes mainstream
Michael Peel ... [I]n this series, we’re exploring the origins of the longevity movement and how it’s migrating from the ...
Viewpoint — Digital gods and human extinction: Will we be the first species ever to design our own descendants?
[Sam] Altman said...in a 2016 interview with The New Yorker. “We need to level up humans,” he declares, “because our descendants will ...
Viewpoint: Will AI democratize personalized cancer treatment or fuel medical misinformation?
Artificial intelligence (AI) has made major advances in biomedical research. It has powered tools such as AlphaFold and systems that ...
Longevity: Is cellular rejuvenation even possible?
Many scientists now believe that mastering cellular rejuvenation may be the key to transforming how long and how well we ...
Seeds of power: China turns to genetic engineering to become global superpower
Amid persistent US-China tensions and recurring supply chain shocks, Beijing is moving upstream in the food system by tightening control ...
GLP podcast: What’s wrong with ‘doomsday’ environmentalism? It’s false.
Ever notice how the environmental movement’s doomsday predictions arrive like clockwork, each one as urgent as the last? Mass starvation, ...
