Science Literacy Project Daily Digest
The heated debate over trans athletes in the WNBA
Three-time Olympic gold medalist Nancy Hogshead-Makar has created a petition demanding that the WNBA spell out that its players must ...
Viewpoint: Women, depression and empathy: Explaining the gender gap in views about child-murderer Lindsay Clancy
Massachusetts mother Lindsay Clancy's trial — which ended in a deadlocked jury over the deaths of her three children while ...
Outing students: California court says schools need not notify parents of their child’s gender identity—unless they ask
California schools don't have to tell parents when a student comes out as transgender — but if a parent asks, ...
Doomsday cult? Why we should be suspicious of end-of-the-world claims
Marc Andreessen is done listening to AI's doomsayers, and he wants everyone else to stop too. The venture capitalist behind ...
RFK Jr. spent two years distancing himself from Children’s Health Defense. Now he’s keynoting its anti-vaccine DC conference.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is set to headline a Washington, D.C. conference hosted by Children's Health Defense (CHD), the anti-vaccine ...
Newly approved GMO chestnut trees planted across from the White House are stirring debate
Two genetically engineered American chestnut trees planted near the White House this spring have reignited a decades-old fight over how ...
Autonomous decisions: AI’s Holy Grail. What is it?
AI companies aren't pouring billions into the world's biggest data centers just so people can ask chatbots for recipes — ...
CRISPR fine-tuning unlocks vitamin C-rich potatoes without yield loss
Potato is a central pillar of global food security, yet its highly heterozygous, tetraploid genome has long frustrated conventional breeding ...
Trump EPA rolls back power-plant climate rules—and moves to block future carbon limits
The Trump administration's Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to repeal the rules that limit greenhouse gas emissions from coal- and ...
How the reckless AI race among Anthropic, OpenAI and China spawned today’s safety crisis
The AI industry's safety talk is colliding with its own commercial stakes, as The Wall Street Journal reports in a look at ...
AI is being used in dangerous bioscience experiments
Anthropic disrupted five attempts to misuse its Claude models for possible bioweapons development between December and August, including two cases ...
Anthropic claims to thwart AI-based cyberattacks, surveillance, and biological weapons research
In its third disclosure since March 2025, the AI company detailed threat activity it identified between December 2025 and August ...
Viewpoint: 6 Atlantic Council expert opinions on the U.S., China and the AI safety crisis
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on the AI industry to "slow the pace" of frontier development amid mounting safety concerns ...
Hands-off: Trump rejects calls by AI leaders to increase regulation and slow development, citing Chinese competition
President Donald Trump on September 13, 2026, brushed off calls from three top AI leaders — Anthropic's Dario Amodei, OpenAI's ...
‘Glyphosate is not carcinogenic’: Independent EU chemical oversight agency reaffirms—for the 3rd time in 9 years—that the herbicide is safe-as-used
The European Chemicals Agency's Risk Assessment Committee (RAC) has reaffirmed, for the third time in nine years, that glyphosate does ...
Bayer urges court to approve $7.25 billion Monsanto Roundup settlement that could limit its future liabilities
Bayer is asking a Missouri court to grant final approval to a $7.25 billion settlement covering roughly 65,000 lawsuits claiming ...
Here’s why separating MMR vaccines is a bad idea
Singapore has not been spared from the global resurgence of measles. As at end-July, Singapore had recorded 40 measles cases ...
‘Jet fuel didn’t melt the steel’: 9/11 conspiracy theories debunked
Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks, conspiracy theories about the World Trade Center's collapse still circulate — but as ...
SCOTUS refuses to back Catholic mother’s appeal for a childhood vaccine religious exemption
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to intervene for a Catholic mother seeking a religious exemption from New York's school ...
The GMO-seed sovereignty debate comes to Nigeria
Across Nigerian farms, market stalls and WhatsApp groups, one word is triggering fear, hope and fury in equal measure: Genetically ...
Did COVID vaccines kill 2,500 service members? RFK Jr. hires an investigator who compares vaccine promoters to Nazi doctors
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has hired Lt. Col. Theresa Long, an Army doctor with no vaccine or virology ...
Facing ridicule, Hegseth rescinds Pentagon’s new testosterone mandates
The Pentagon abruptly yanked its new testosterone-screening rules just a day after posting them, as ABC News' Luis Martinez reports. Defense ...
Chemophobia trap: How the ‘appeal to nature’ fallacy makes ‘clean’ and organic products seem safer—even when they’re not
Fear of “chemicals” is spreading well beyond the wellness aisle — and now it’s driving political messaging as much as ...
Flattening culture and cognition: Is AI eroding our singularity?
AI chatbots aren't just imitating human creativity — they may be flattening it, according to a growing body of research ...
Viewpoint: Cocky but wrong—feeling superior feeds medical and health conspiracy theories
Feeling smarter than everyone else might be exactly what makes people fall for medical misinformation, as Glendale Star columnist Mia ...
Social media still eclipses AI as the driving force of medical misinformation
Physicians say medical misinformation is getting worse — but they’re not blaming AI chatbots for it. That’s the takeaway from ...
Public is skeptical about claims of vaccine danger, but a poll shows troubling doubts
Vaccine myths are not new. They have circulated for decades, surviving retracted studies and countless public health campaigns. Now, a ...
