Science Literacy Project Daily Digest
Biotechnology caucus: Congress establishes bipartisan coalition to advocate for agricultural and health innovation
...Representatives Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA) and Stephanie Bice (R-OK) announced the formation of the BIOTech Caucus. The Caucus’ mission is to advance bipartisan policy solutions ...
Why there are tort cases targeting chemicals and corporations in the U.S. but not in Canada
It was January 16, 2016. I was white-knuckling it down Missouri’s highway 44, heading to my new job at Monsanto ...
Rwanda piloting the introduction of genetically modified cassava, Irish potato and corn
Rwanda plans to pilot the growing of three biotech crops, namely cassava, Irish potato and maize to evaluate their performance ...
How should we regulate human-created stem-cell embryos
The stem cell-based embryo model (SCBEM) takes advantage of the flexibility of pluripotent stem cells (non-reproductive cells that can give ...
Viewpoint: How AGI (artificial general intelligence) threatens to undermine what it means to be human
Predictions about the impacts of artificial general intelligence (AGI) often focus on societal disruptions, such as job displacement or the ...
Nanny state hypocrisy: When Michelle Obama advocated improving American’s diet, she was mocked. Now it’s mainstream MAHA
Before there was MAHA, there was Michelle. Anyone following the rise of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again ...
Viewpoint: The hubris of tech billionaires’ ‘ideology of technological salvation’
Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and others may have slightly different goals and ambitions in the near term, but ...
Food and farming industry pushes back against RFK, Jr.’s MAHA-targeting of agricultural chemicals
The MAHA movement argues that a heavily consolidated and industrialized U.S. food industry is the central factor in Americans’ high ...
How testosterone and estrogen have driven human evolution
What makes us human? Most would say our minds. The ability to think, empathize, and build complex societies sets us ...
Who’s my daddy? Offspring of two male mice father a child
For the first time, mice born to two fathers have grown up and produced offspring, scientists in China have revealed ...
Viewpoint: Pro-Trump farmers struggle, some face bankruptcy with cancellations of agriculture-friendly programs
JJ was an American farmer, perpetually subject to weather, labor, loans, overhead, markets, health, politics. None of it was predictable, ...
Profiles of the 10 top global cultured meat companies
An unsustainable demand for meat has led to companies looking for alternative solutions to conventional farming methods in order to ...
Re-purposing the cellular waste from wheat and oats to sustainably make clothing
Making clothing from water-intensive cotton has a major impact on the climate. That’s why cellulose from other raw materials has ...
AI chatbots talk dirty
AI companions like Replika are designed to engage in intimate exchanges, but people use general-purpose chatbots for sex talk too, despite ...
Germany experiments with blending organic agriculture with agroecology principles
Germany has a long-standing tradition of organic farming, supported by an established certification system and widely known by producers and ...
Alien chronicles: Here’s how the Pentagon fabricated evidence and allowed rumors to fester to cover up its secret-weapons programs
A tiny Pentagon office had spent months investigating conspiracy theories about secret Washington UFO programs when it uncovered a shocking ...
Medicine vs. MAGA: Doctors and Insurers Scramble as RFK Jr. Dismantles U.S. Vaccine System
Professional medical societies, pharmacists, state health officials and vaccine manufacturers, as well as a new advocacy group, are mobilizing behind ...
Viewpoint: From farm to famine? Kenya risks a Sri Lanka-style collapse over pesticide politics
In 2025, Kenya, its farmers, and its consumers will deliver a world demonstration of why scientists have been pleading for ...
Planting roots of resilience: How agroforestry helps farmers weather the climate crisis
Although climate change is making it harder to achieve sustainable agriculture, there is hope. “Fortunately, many of the practices that ...
Viewpoint: ‘The Trump administration’s reckless assaults on U.S. science are endangering the nation’
The Trump administration’s reckless assaults on U.S. science are endangering the nation. If allowed to continue, they will lead to ...
From cells to sashimi: Lab-grown salmon and the future of sustainable seafood
The world has become increasingly more concerned about environmental sustainability, food security, and ethical sourcing, making lab-grown or cultivated meat ...
Viewpoint: How to engage with a vaccine skeptic
...In the United States, about 20% of parents are hesitant about vaccines — one reason for an outbreak of measles ...
AI gobbles up an enormous amount of energy—but its creators won’t say how much
“People are often curious about how much energy a ChatGPT query uses,” Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, wrote in an aside in ...
‘Screen addiction’ and suicidal behavior in children and adolescents
The amount of time kids spent on social media, mobile phones and video games wasn’t associated with more internalizing symptoms ...
‘China’s Frankenstein’ He Jiankui relocates to Houston to continue his renegade approach to human embryonic gene editing
He [Jiankui] claims to be the only person in the world who has truly genetically edited embryos and had healthy ...
Rise of the robot farmer: How AI could reprogram global agriculture
Global agriculture is undergoing a technological renewal as the world continues to face problems, such as climate change, rising food ...
Viewpoint: Brace yourself–Here is how some universities prepare students to become sex therapists
What began as a simple accommodation request in a required course called Human Sexuality turned into a case study in ...
