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How Freddie Mercury got his voice: It wasn’t his teeth

Ricki Lewis | 
Was Freddie Mercury's magnificent voice aided by a genetic defect? ...
Podcast: Life-saving snake venom? Palm oil from gene-edited soybeans; Fighting plastic pollution with biotech

Podcast: Life-saving snake venom? Palm oil from gene-edited soybeans; Fighting plastic pollution with biotech

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
Believe it or not, scientists are exploiting venom from snakes, snails and other poisonous critters to make life-saving medicines. Could ...
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Ancient humans didn’t get sunburn. Here’s how living indoors has evolved our skin

Nina Jablonski | 
Human beings have a conflicted relationship with the sun. People love sunshine, but then get hot. Sweat gets in your ...
Part I: Intelligence, disease, prejudice — and Jewish skeletal remains in a Norwich well

Part I: Intelligence, disease, prejudice — and Jewish skeletal remains in a Norwich well

Patrick Whittle | 
Who would have thought that bones found at the bottom of a medieval well in England could stir up such ...
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Curing insomnia: Techno-solutions like brain-altering apps and sleep trackers are proliferating but the solutions may be far more ancient

Matthew Thomas | 
You will likely spend about 26 years of your life sleeping. You’ll use up another seven years just falling asleep, ...
Yet another study from the Ramazzini Institute claims artificial sweeteners may cause cancer. Here’s why scientists and regulators ignore it

Yet another study from the Ramazzini Institute claims artificial sweeteners may cause cancer. Here’s why scientists and regulators ignore it

Susan Goldhaber | 
There’s an epidemic of obesity and diabetes, and everyone is trying to lose weight. Many individuals use artificial sweeteners to ...
What is ‘genetic nurture' and how does it impact educational achievement?

What is ‘genetic nurture’ and how does it impact educational achievement?

Razib Khan | 
The phrase “Look down your nose” comes from a time when aristocrats were taller than commoners due to their superior ...
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Women have a much higher risk of being killed by male partners. What explains this phenomenon?

Anne Lise Stranden | 
One in four homicides is committed by an intimate partner. As many as four out of ten murders of women ...
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Queen Elizabeth II officially died at 96 of ‘old age’. What does that mean?

Marc Trabsky | 
Queen Elizabeth’s newly released death certificate contains just two curious words under her cause of death – old age ...
Did ancient humans experience depression or anxiety?

Did ancient humans experience depression or anxiety?

Paige Ford | 
Operationalizing a perspective that discusses generalized anxiety and other mental health disorders without interpreting history through the lens of our ...
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‘Lessons in Chemistry’: New Apple TV series based on best-selling book has opportunity to skewer sexism while challenging the ‘nerd stereotype’

Ricki Lewis | 
I loved Lessons in Chemistry, the hit novel by Bonnie Garmus, and I’m thrilled that Apple TV+ picked it up ...
Lab leak theory backlash: Republicans back controversial COVID origins explanation, widening gap on previously bipartisan issue

Lab leak theory backlash: Republicans back controversial COVID origins explanation, widening gap on previously bipartisan issue

Michael Schulson | 
In March 2021, three members of Congress sent a long letter to the director of the National Institutes of Health, the ...
Teenage brains are a cauldron of change: Here’s what happens on the inside and how it affects our looks and behavior

Teenage brains are a cauldron of change: Here’s what happens on the inside and how it affects our looks and behavior

Eldrid Borgan | 
A lot happens when you reach puberty. Your voice may change and you will experience hair growth on parts of ...
Podcast: BMI useless? Lab-grown meat a 'pipe dream;' Did early humans eat each other?

Podcast: BMI useless? Lab-grown meat a ‘pipe dream;’ Did early humans eat each other?

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
Using body mass index (BMI) to assess a patient's health may yield misleading results and undermine public trust in medicine, ...
Nature, nurture and old age: How much is the human lifespan driven by our genes?

Nature, nurture and old age: How much is the human lifespan driven by our genes?

Chuck Dinerstein | 
The research used our old friend, the UK Biobank, a repository of genetic information on a large number of Brits, ...
Are Americans too complacent about a winter surge of COVID infections — and deaths?

Are Americans too complacent about a winter surge of COVID infections — and deaths?

Henry Miller, John Cohrssen | 
To the old saying about the inevitability of death and taxes, we should add another: another health crisis linked to ...
'U-shaped happiness curve': Do people really get more content with life as they age?

‘U-shaped happiness curve’: Do people really get more content with life as they age?

David Bartram | 
On average, happiness declines as we approach middle age, bottoming out in our 40s but then picking back up as ...
‘The Day I Die’: One man’s struggle with Lou Gehrig’s disease and physician-assisted suicide

‘The Day I Die’: One man’s struggle with Lou Gehrig’s disease and physician-assisted suicide

Anita Hannig | 
[An excerpt] from The Day I Die: The Untold Story of Assisted Dying in America by Anita Hannig ...
Podcast: NYT attacks another scientist; How we got 'GMO' insulin; Why is gene therapy so costly?

Podcast: NYT attacks another scientist; How we got ‘GMO’ insulin; Why is gene therapy so costly?

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
The New York Times last week alleged that a high-profile scientist is in cahoots with the meat industry. Is there ...
Is human intelligence an evolutionary dead end?

Is human intelligence an evolutionary dead end?

Rachel Nuwer | 
The German Philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was, by all accounts, a miserable human being. He famously sought meaning through suffering, ...
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‘Dead first’: Why American men are men more likely than Canadians, Australians and Brits to die prematurely

Whether it’s stubbornness, an aversion to appearing weak or vulnerable, or other reasons, men go to the doctor far less ...
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Do you have frequent nightmares? They could foreshadow future dementia

Abidemi Otaiku | 
We spend a third of our lives asleep. And a quarter of our time asleep is spent dreaming. So, for ...
Podcast: Pollution makes you fat? India approves more GMOs; Biological 'push notifications'

Podcast: Pollution makes you fat? India approves more GMOs; Biological ‘push notifications’

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
Air pollution harms our health in many ways; does it also encourage obesity? Farmers in India have access to two ...
Neanderthals and human evolution

The increasingly bushy human family tree and five other paradigm-altering changes in our understanding of human evolution

Penny Spikins | 
From archaeological reconstructions of Neanderthals as stooped, hairy and brutish, to “cavemen” movies, our ancient ancestors got a bad press ...
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New Zealand’s commitment to removing invasive animal predators opens the door to reconsidering its 20-year rejection of genetic modification

Jacqueline Rowarth, Jon Entine | 
Aotearoa New Zealand, the Land of the Long White Cloud, is the first place to see the sunrise on a ...
Podcast: Seralini's infamous rat study 10 years later — Looking back at the retracted research linking GM corn and glyphosate to cancer

Podcast: Seralini’s infamous rat study 10 years later — Looking back at the retracted research linking GM corn and glyphosate to cancer

Kevin Folta | 
Ten years ago the biotech world froze and horrific images of three tumor-ridden rats penetrated the media. Social media erupted ...
Understanding why people reject science could lead to solutions for rebuilding trust

Understanding why people reject science could lead to solutions for rebuilding trust

Why are so many people anti-science? As experts on attitudes, persuasion and how humans are impacted by scientific innovations, our ...
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