Science Literacy Project Daily Digest
Viewpoint: Can urban farming and agroecology rescue our planet?
By 2050, more than two-thirds of us will live in cities. Could urban farming feed 10 billion? Urban agriculture (UA) covers everything ...
Rightfully concerned your dog could die of rabies? Many vaccine-suspicious pet owners follow RFK, Jr.’s guidance, increasingly reject life-protecting jabs
For most of her career, vaccination was a routine, unremarkable part of Dr. McGuire’s work as a small animal veterinarian ...
Taste, nutrition, yield, disease resistance, climate resilience: England becomes first country in Europe to legalize the development and sale of gene-edited plants and food
Niab has welcomed the entry into force today (13 November) of the Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act 2023 for plants ...
Pakistan paying an economic price for its reluctance to embrace crop biotechnology
The iconic green fields of the Punjab, once the heartland of Pakistan’s cotton economy, face a silent crisis. While official ...
Viewpoint: The ‘massive anti-vax, anti-public health propaganda machine’ promoting RFK. Jr. and his band of HHS grifters
It’s a great time to be a MAHA-pilled anti-vaxxer, because there are so many fun conferences to attend. ... The ...
A journey for one Muslim creationist to embrace evidence-based science and evolution
Ella al-Shamahi is a palaeoanthropologist and evolutionary biologist who grew up as a creationist. ... [She] thought she'd be able to ...
Here is the origin of the term AGI—Artificial General Intelligence
[Artificial] general intelligence, or AGI, [is] the stage at which computers can match or surpass human intelligence. ... Prognosticators say ...
How science figured out how to contain peanut allergies
It turned out that the guidance parents and pediatricians ... had been following, to avoid giving peanuts to babies and ...
Activists decry EPA approval of effective PFAS family herbicide
The Trump administration is poised to again approve a new Pfas “forever chemical” pesticide ingredient, a move that is drawing ...
Viewpoint: Ways that HHS Secretary Kennedy lied when he pledged his commitment to ‘gold standard science’
Under the reign of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., ... thousands of people have lost their jobs, the organization’s policies have been hijacked by allies ...
‘Biotech Barbie’ Manhattan Project: Will CRISPR babies escape the shadow of He Jiankui?
Cathy Tie left university to found her first biotechnology company at the age of 18. In the 11 years since, ...
Tom Brady paid $50,000 to clone his beloved dog. The same procedure can help revive endangered, inbred species
[We] heard that Tom Brady had his dog cloned. The former quarterback revealed that his Junie is actually a clone ...
With Republican popularity sagging, RFK, Jr.’s MAHA movement may provide a boost for Trump
MAHA leaders are set to use their agenda to shore up support for the GOP among independent voters who might ...
Animal rights advocates align with RFK, Jr.’s attempt to phase out animal testing in favor of high-tech, human-based alternatives
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s making animal welfare a component of his Make America Healthy Again mission. The health secretary has ...
Teaching AI to farm
[At] the North Carolina Plant Sciences Initiative (N.C. PSI) at NC State, data is considered an essential part of farm equipment. It’s ...
When gene editing offers health and nutritional benefits, consumer acceptance rises significantly
The research, “Consumer Acceptance of Gene-Edited Foods,” found that consumers are significantly more open to gene-edited products when the benefits ...
AI poised to revolutionize app dating: Here’s how it may work
After swiping aimlessly for years on dating apps like Hinge and Tinder, Emma Inge ... decided to try something different ...
‘Beat the Chinese’: President irked as U.S. race to the moon falters
Secretary of Transportation and [acting NASA administrator Sean] Duffy said SpaceX has fallen behind in its efforts to develop the ...
As Trump’s tariff war with China oscillates, America’s soybean farmers are trapped in a vise
Just days after the Trump administration pledged a $20 billion loan to backstop the finances of Argentina under libertarian President ...
RFK, Jr. endorses expedited approvals for gene editing therapy
A top United States regulator plans to unveil a faster approach to approving custom gene-editing treatments, a move designed to ...
Setting aside $18 billion: As glyphosate cancer litigation persists, Bayer places its survival bet on SCOTUS and federal legal protection
Bayer … notes that regulators in countries from the US to Japan to New Zealand have recently reaffirmed that glyphosate-based ...
Viewpoint: ‘God is an antivaxxer’—Don’t let the MAHA movement’s claims of being evidence-based fool you. It’s now full-on anti-vax
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. likes to say that he is not anti-vaccine, he is “pro-safety.” But when 1,000 ...
What would be the global labor impact if the world embraces a more plant-based diet
A global shift towards healthier, more sustainable eating patterns could reshape agricultural employment across the world, according to new research ...
Texas escalates legal attacks against Tylenol maker, asks judge to stop advertising (accurately) that the pain killer is safe
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has asked a federal judge to issue a restraining order against the makers of Tylenol ...
‘Defective and inherently dangerous’: ChatGPT facing multiple wrongful death and mental health breakdown lawsuits
Four wrongful death lawsuits were filed against OpenAI ..., as well as cases from three people who say the company’s ...
Losing jobs, increasing efficiency and profitability: Amazon jumps rivals in embracing warehouse robots
Artificial intelligence that makes humans more efficient and robots that make them less necessary: That’s the future Amazon is building in its ...
How eating garlic makes your armpit sweat more attractive and other mysteries of the genetics of smell
"The past few decades have revealed that odour is shaped by our genes, hormones, health, and hygiene," says Craig Roberts, ...
