Science Literacy Project Daily Digest
Trouble getting pregnant: AI is the energizer bunny way to supercharge sperm
Doctors at Columbia University's fertility centre ... have developed an imaging technology, Sperm Tracking and Recovery (STAR), which they believe ...
Outside the boundaries of modern science? Gene editing opens the door to treat rare diseases
Fyodor Urnov, the scientific director of UC Berkeley’s Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI), showed me a list of rare diseases and ...
Evolutionary quirk or survival instict? Why are we ticklish?
Only humans and our close relatives are known to engage in tickling behaviour, suggesting that it may have evolved in ...
Viewpoint: RFK, Jr. and the vaccine denial movement is undermining trust between doctors and patients
Over the past few years, the rise of anti-science and anti-vaccine rhetoric has fundamentally changed the relationship between clinicians and ...
‘Terrible distortion of facts’: Anti-vax lawyer’s heb B testimony perfectly illustrates playbook to subvert science and litigate fear
Attorney Aaron Siri, JD, who has worked as legal counsel for Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., ...
Viewpoint: Fake news about Italy’s 2023 ‘unenforceable’ ban on lab grown meat reignites fact-twisted furor
Italy passed a law banning cultivated or cell-based meat years ago, but posts online suggesting that it has just happened ...
Yield, resilience and profits: Seed technology is put to the test
Dr Godfrey Kgatle, plant pathologist and research coordinator at Grain SA, offers insight into how traditional breeding, hybrids, genetically modified ...
Viewpoint: Despite growing acceptance of gene-edited crops, cloned meat still gives people ‘the ick’
After working with other government departments and conducting a review of the scientific literature, Health Canada had determined that food ...
RFK, Jr. poised to marginalize effective RSV therapies after vaccine opponents question efficacy of safety data based on no new data
U.S. health regulators informed senior executives at Merck, Sanofi and AstraZeneca ... that their approved protective RSV treatments for infants ...
Viewpoint: Once the global center of science-based medicine, the CDC now regularly lies and peddles junk science
... On November 19, 2025, the CDC updated its webpage about one of the central antivax claims dating back to ...
New York Times says it will not be intimidated into reporting about Trump’s faltering health
The New York Times, attacked by President Donald Trump for reporting about his physical condition, said on [December 9, 2025] that ...
Viewpoint: San Francisco’s ultra-processed lawsuit: Stupid politics meets dumb science
[On December 2, 2025], San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu filed what he calls a “first of its kind” lawsuit ...
Will South Korea join the rest of the science world in deregulating genetically engineered crops?
[Korea's] National Assembly [just] passed the “GMO Full Disclosure Act (Food Sanitation Act Amendment).” This reflects progress in transparency, safeguarding ...
Viewpoint: The rosy-eyed view of the changes that could be coming with the EU’s approval of agricultural gene editing
In recent years, there has been a need for the rapid development of new varieties to address the negative constraints ...
‘We must absolutely ignore them’: Medical experts rebuke Kennedy’s CDC after ‘hand-picked’ panel upends hepatitis B vaccine guidance
A CDC vaccine advisory panel's decision to stop recommending universal hepatitis B vaccination for newborns has sparked a split between federal advisors ...
Mismatch of bodies and brains: Humans were not built for our industrialized present; our evolutionary future looks grim
In a recent research paper co-authored with Daniel Longman, ... [evolutionary anthropologist Colin Shaw] argues that the extensive environmental shifts of the Anthropocene ...
Speculation on how our brains may have evolved to invent the idea of gods
Recent archaeological and neurobiological evidence suggests that as the human brain evolved, specific cognitive abilities appeared that paralleled the invention ...
Viewpoint: India needs to refine its view of the benefits and limits of crop biotechnology
This year’s Nobel laureates in Economics affirm that the future of growth models will be driven by innovation. This is ...
Most people have no clue how gene edited could tweak crops, but when the benefits are clear, they are receptive
Consumers are far more open to gene-edited foods when the benefits are personal, values-driven and clearly explained, according to recent ...
Can we ‘recharge’ our cells to rewind the aging clock? Scientists think so
Think of cells as the biological answer to battery-powered electronics. Mitochondria are the batteries that supply them with enough energy to keep going. ...
Volcanic eruptions brought the Black Death plague to Europe
Researchers from the University of Cambridge and the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) in ...
Grim reality of global far-right/MAHA/RFK, Jr. vaccine rejectionism: Child mortality reverses course and is now on the rise
For the first time in 25 years, child mortality rates for preventable diseases are projected to increase, after having declined ...
Near-death experiences: What happens in the brain when you edge toward the cliff of death?
At the Daily Mail ..., Wiliam Hunter [reported] on a recent study of 48 near-death experiences: Some participants described seeing heavenly beings, while one even said they ...
Dumb transhumanist idea? Elon Musk and other technology superstars want to upload their brains to AI computers
Michael Hendricks, a professor of neurobiology at McGill, said: “Rich people who are fascinated with these dumb transhumanist ideas” are ...
Agri-biotechnology innovators turn to living organisms and natural materials to build future-focused food systems
[B]iotechnology companies are turning to living organisms and natural materials for inspiration. ... [U]nibaio extracts chitosan from shell waste and transforms ...
How to future-proof global food security to meet 2050 demands
Food security faces growing challenges due to population growth, resource limitations, economic pressures, and industrialization-induced lifestyle changes. Traditional food systems ...
AquaWomb offers a life support system for precarious, premature babies. Not everyone thinks that’s a great idea
In the US, more than 10,000 infants are born each year within ... precarious boundaries. Premature birth remains the nation’s second-leading cause of infant ...
