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Your household trash could be used to power jets. Here’s how

Lucy Stitzer | 
Governments around the world have challenged the airline industry to convert to completely sustainable fuel by 2050. But what is ...
In the wake of Biden's COVID-19 infections, here’s what regulators should do to limit Paxlovid rebound

In the wake of Biden’s COVID-19 infections, here’s what regulators should do to limit Paxlovid rebound

Henry Miller, Josh Bloom | 
When he headed the Food & Drug Administration, Dr. Frank Young used to admonish his minions that sometimes regulations need ...
Do 'bionic' reading devices actually work?

Do ‘bionic’ reading devices actually work?

Lauren Singer Trakhman | 
What if something as simple as bolding parts of a word could make reading a breeze, improving your focus, speed ...
Exploring Prophet Muhammad’s Hebraic descent

Exploring Prophet Muhammad’s Hebraic descent

Ibrahim Omer | 
In the West, the discussion on the origins of Prophet Muhammad has been the subject of limited studies. Traditional and ...
GLP Podcast: EPA's political weedkiller rules; GMO-derived beer on sale; Anti-glyphosate webinar review

GLP Podcast: EPA’s political weedkiller rules; GMO-derived beer on sale; Anti-glyphosate webinar review

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
The Biden Administration just overruled its own scientists at the EPA, mandating regulations that effectively ban the low-risk, effective weedkiller ...
IVF success rate is 30%. Genetic factors more than environment may explain why it’s so unsuccessful

IVF success rate is 30%. Genetic factors more than environment may explain why it’s so unsuccessful

It has been almost 44 years years since the first in vitro fertilisation (IVF) procedure was successfully performed in 1978 ...
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The hapless male Y chromosome finally has a purpose

Ricki Lewis | 
I’ve never been fond of the human Y chromosome. Yes, the all-important SRY gene sets the early embryo on a path towards ...
Transhumanism to humankind’s rescue? A new book claims we face a ‘make or break’ century, so let the technological remake begin

Transhumanism to humankind’s rescue? A new book claims we face a ‘make or break’ century, so let the technological remake begin

Celina Ribeiro | 
Ageing cured. Death conquered. Work ended. The human brain reverse-engineered by AI. Babies born outside of the womb. Virtual children, ...
Health and autonomy: How COVID has challenged already-tenuous balance among public health, religion and personal values

Health and autonomy: How COVID has challenged already-tenuous balance among public health, religion and personal values

Barbara Pfeffer Billauer | 
Exactly two years ago, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. At the time, 118,000 cases and 4,000 deaths ...
Podcast: Guardian's glyphosate hysteria debunked; Intensive farming and pandemics; Where did dogs come from?

Podcast: Guardian’s glyphosate hysteria debunked; Intensive farming and pandemics; Where did dogs come from?

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
There's probably minute quantities of weedkiller in your urine. Should you panic? No. Will technological advances in farming reduce or ...
‘Disconnection, isolation, depression’: Long COVID has heightened our awareness of the critical role sense plays in life

‘Disconnection, isolation, depression’: Long COVID has heightened our awareness of the critical role sense plays in life

Sarah Ives | 
The number of people experiencing lost or distorted olfaction has risen astronomically during the COVID-19 pandemic. One study indicates that ...
Viewpoint: When do politicians sometimes act like bacteria? When it comes to enacting necessary but politically risky policies to control the latest COVID surge

Viewpoint: When do politicians sometimes act like bacteria? When it comes to enacting necessary but politically risky policies to control the latest COVID surge

Henry Miller | 
I’ve long noted fundamental similarities between bacteria and politicians. It might seem an odd comparison, but both groups are highly ...
Deep voice, height, testosterone levels, angular face, finger digit ratio, muscularity: Which male trait best predicts finding a partner and having children?

Deep voice, height, testosterone levels, angular face, finger digit ratio, muscularity: Which male trait best predicts finding a partner and having children?

Ross Pomeroy | 
In a massive meta-analysis that was years in the making, psychologists from the University of Durham and the University of ...
Do-it-yourself oxygen: How astronauts could survive on Mars

Do-it-yourself oxygen: How astronauts could survive on Mars

Amy Williams, Phylindia Gant | 
If MOXIE works the way that scientists hope it will, future astronauts will not only make their own oxygen; they ...
Podcast: Pesticides cancel benefits of fruits and veggies? Drought-tolerant wheat coming soon? Do DNA diets work?

Podcast: Pesticides cancel benefits of fruits and veggies? Drought-tolerant wheat coming soon? Do DNA diets work?

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
Do pesticide residues on food counteract the benefits of consuming fruits and vegetables? The FDA recently approved a genetically engineered ...
Humans sleep away ⅓ of their lives, but it’s a lot less than other primates. Here’s why

Humans sleep away ⅓ of their lives, but it’s a lot less than other primates. Here’s why

Elizabeth Preston | 
Research has shown that people in non-industrial societies — the closest thing to the kind of setting our species evolved ...
Why Paxlovid is far more effective than media coverage and some skeptics suggest

Why Paxlovid is far more effective than media coverage and some skeptics suggest

Henry Miller, Josh Bloom | 
Paxlovid, the most widely prescribed drug to treat symptomatic COVID-19, has lately attracted a number of detractors. However, Paxlovid has ...
Male and female brains are different in key ways — and that could explain sex disparities in incidences of autism and Alzheimer’s

Male and female brains are different in key ways — and that could explain sex disparities in incidences of autism and Alzheimer’s

Amber Dance | 
Scientists have long had of evidence linking immune activity to brain differences and disorders, but the science that sex adds ...
DNA and gene editing are the real stars of the new Jurassic Park movie

DNA and gene editing are the real stars of the new Jurassic Park movie

Ricki Lewis | 
In Jurassic World: Dominion, the science is mostly accurate, the bioethics message obvious, and the plot adheres to Isaac Asimov’s ...
Legislating nicotine reduction? Some smoke, mostly mirrors

Legislating nicotine reduction? Some smoke, mostly mirrors

Barbara Pfeffer Billauer | 
The Biden administration recently announced plans to reduce nicotine in cigarettes to “minimally or non-addictive levels.” This is not a ...
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When blood relatives hook up: Is ‘Genetic Sexual Attraction’ really a thing?

Ricki Lewis | 
Academic sex researchers will ramp up investigation of genetic sexual attraction ...
Comparing primate intelligence: What’s so unique about the human brain that makes us so smart?

Comparing primate intelligence: What’s so unique about the human brain that makes us so smart?

Humans are unrivalled in the area of cognition. After all, no other species has sent probes to other planets, produced ...
Anosmia and COVID: Does loss of smell from coronavirus signal more serious neurological issues ahead?

Anosmia and COVID: Does loss of smell from coronavirus signal more serious neurological issues ahead?

Ricki Lewis | 
The sudden inability to smell and taste that comes with COVID is startling and difficult to describe. I was lucky ...
Transitioning transgender teenagers are not new. This Dutch clinic has been helping them for decades

Transitioning transgender teenagers are not new. This Dutch clinic has been helping them for decades

Frieda Klotz | 
Relationships between and physicians last a long time at Amsterdam’s Center of Expertise on Gender Dysphoria. Some of today’s adult ...
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Did you get a DNA ancestry kit for Father’s Day? Here are some things to consider before spitting in that vial

Ricki Lewis | 
The media tales of familial surprises are the tip of an iceberg ...
GLP Podcast: Why non-smokers get cancer; Spotting diseases during pregnancy; Earth-friendly industrialized farming?

GLP Podcast: Why non-smokers get cancer; Spotting diseases during pregnancy; Earth-friendly industrialized farming?

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
Many smokers don't get lung cancer. But why do so many non-smokers end up with the disease? A preliminary study ...
Long COVID’s biological puzzle: Untangling the difference between true disease and pandemic disruptions

Long COVID’s biological puzzle: Untangling the difference between true disease and pandemic disruptions

Ross Pomeroy | 
Soon after SARS-CoV-2 surfaced in 2020, rapidly sending countries around the world into panicked lockdowns, a new specter arose: "Long ...
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