Science Literacy Project Daily Digest
Why do so many rightwing leaders question the science supporting climate change?
"Climate policy and climate research are under heavy attack from the Trump administration," Håkon Sælen recently said at the Cicero ...
Bees in distress: Climate change is depressing the aroma that attracts bees for pollination. Scientists are scrambling for a solution
Across 120 publications from 19 countries, ozone pollution decreased performance of beneficial invertebrates by more than 31%, while nitrogen oxides ...
Robot wars: Here’s why the simmering feud between Musk and Zuckerberg could move from orange to red
When Mark Zuckerberg walked on stage ... with those chunky black AI glasses, some viewed a possible future rival for the Apple iPhone. Others, however, ...
Sustainability breakthrough: Scientists targeting the genetic code of pests
Pests can be the make-or-break factor for a season’s harvest. Between 20% to 40% of global crop production is lost ...
What do we need Seed Banks? 75% of plant genetic diversity has been lost since the early 20th century, and its losses are accelerating
Gene and seed banks are not static museums. They are living collections of genetic material, designed to support food security, ...
Why the chemophobia obsession is baked into America’s consciousness
'No nasties’, ‘non-toxic’, ‘natural’, ‘organic’, ‘mineral’ – there are a multitude of health buzzwords sprinkled through grocery store shelves aimed ...
What’s the difference between human intelligence and AI? Not very much
The term artificial intelligence renders the sense that what computers do is either inferior to or at least apart from ...
Nearly 30 minutes. That’s the new world record for holding one’s breath under water. Here is how he did it
Vitomir Maričić is one of the world's best freedivers. And this summer he set a new world record: He held ...
Strength, power, and high-intensity training: How much do creatine supplements help
It's arguably one of the world's most researched supplements. Thousands of studies have been carried out over the past few ...
Fungicide alternative: Would your crops benefit from a genetically engineered vaccine?
Disease control within crop production systems has been very much centred on the development of complex organic chemicals such as ...
Are there such things as ‘ancestral bloodlines’? Not when you examine the DNA
Human history is rife with contentions about the purity (and superiority) of the bloodlines of one group over another and ...
China’s bought about 50% of U.S. soybean exports since 1920. This year? Zero, thanks to Trump’s trade war
For U.S. farmers, abundant rains to fuel a bumper crop would normally be good news — but it won’t matter ...
What critical drugs are next on RFK, Jr.’s hitlist?
For years, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has railed against a number of medications and therapeutics claiming without scientific consensus or ...
Viewpoint: No burgers or bangers: EU environmental activists mobilize to remove all ‘meat words’ from plant-based proteins
I ate some Quorn sausages last night. I wasn’t confused when I bought them. I didn’t buy them because I ...
Anti-vaccination advocates romanticize over a safe pre-shot past that never existed
The past does contain its share of treasures, and it can be hard to accept that a world so rife ...
Trump’s wacky science: He’s now blaming mothers for autism
The Trump administration’s targeting of women’s behavior as the basis for autism evokes the disgraceful mid-20th-century era of so-called refrigerator mothers, ...
Viewpoint: Is the MAHA – MAGA alliance fraying
[Zen] Honeycutt and other “MAHA moms” were disappointed by the MAHA commission report released in September that they say lacked meaningful ...
Viewpoint: ‘Farmageddon’—Trump’s chaotic trade and tariff policies doesn’t hurt ‘industrial agriculture’ but smaller farms are in crisis
“We’re in a hell of a mess here,” said Ohio farmer Chris Gibbs as he worked on his combine at ...
What’s driving food costs inflation?
From rice to coffee, cocoa to olive oil, extreme weather conditions are driving up the prices of staple foods around ...
The super wealthy are convinced (at least very hopeful) that they can defy death
It’s easy to roll our eyes at people like Xi and Putin who wish for immortality, and to dismiss their ...
‘It doubles the time of origin of the human species’: How digital technology is rewriting the origin of humanity
An ancient skull, warped and damaged by the ravages of time and degradation, may have just altered our understanding of ...
How would a prolonged shutdown impact federal food assistance programs?
Historically the Special Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) has been unaffected by government shutdowns, including ...
Viewpoint: The farm economy in the U.S. is cratering. Here’s why farmers are unlikely to abandon Trumpononics
Fall is here, the harvest is coming in, but President Donald Trump’s trade war rages on and China won’t buy American farmers’ soybeans. That’s ...
Walmart redundancy: As the world’s largest private retailer embraces AI to stay competitive, its workforce will stop growing for the first time in its history
“It’s very clear that AI is going to change literally every job,” Chief Executive Doug McMillon said this week in one of ...
Viewpoint: Isreal, Hamas and the hollowing out of the word “Genocide”
These days the term genocide casually trips off the tongue of anti-Israeli protestors. But moral entrepreneurs supporting a variety of ...
Michael Grunwald: ‘How to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate?’
When veteran journalist Michael Grunwald set out to write his third book, he was determined not to produce a “Debbie ...
Viewpoint: Trump’s big bet: Vaccine skepticism and Tylenol scare will cast as a defender of MAGA parents
The vaccine skepticism espoused by Trump and Kennedy is out of step with the views of many Americans and carries political risks, ...
