Science Literacy Project Daily Digest
Viewpoint: Activist Food and Water Watch offers its blueprint of what RFK, Jr. should do to ‘reform’ America’s food system
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s conspiracy-laden policies and loyalty to Donald Trump won’t protect our health or our food. Here’s what ...
The US fertility rate continues to fall sharply. Once celebrated, this trend could portend economic disaster. Here’s why
Humanity has entered a new era of rapid population decline. Globally, the total fertility rate is likely already below replacement—that ...
Wil IVF soon become a protected right under President Trump’s executive order? Sort of and maybe
President Trump signed an executive order aimed at ensuring “reliable access” to in vitro fertilization treatment — while at the ...
Risky business: How human’s evolutionary response to danger has left all of us vulnerable
In The Gambling Animal: Humanity’s evolutionary winning streak – and how we risk it all, experimental economists Glenn Harrison and Don ...
Africa looks to 7% annual growth to unlock benefits of a bioeconomy
Regions, such as Africa, which have significantly lower carbon emissions compared to the rest of the world, could have a ...
Viewpoint: Revisiting first UNESCO director Julian Huxley’s embrace of eugenics
Julian Sorell Huxley was born in London in 1887, the eldest son of Julia Arnold, an educator, and Leonard Huxley, ...
As key ally of RFK. Jr., contoversial Environmental Working Group lobbyist is poised to help steer American health, food and agriculture policy
Efforts to overhaul the U.S. food system have long been stymied by industry lobbying and glacial bureaucracy, said [Scott] Faber, ...
Viewpoint: Here is what Trump’s order banning federal support for transcare gets wrong about the science of gender dysphoria
President Donald Trump's executive order, “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,” ... promises to protect children from “destructive and ...
China is one year into its 5-year plan that it hopes will establish it as the global epicenter of agricultural gene editing. Here’s an update
China is set to revolutionize global agriculture with an ambitious biotechnology initiative focused on gene-editing tools and the development of ...
Is a high protein diet the best and safest way to increase strength?
From raw eggs to protein shakes, those hoping to expand their brawn are often encouraged to ingest vast quantities of ...
Viewpoint: Trump is pushing ‘America FIrst’ across policy sectors including food and farming. Why that’s not a great idea
An America First food system would promote eating seasonally and locally, supporting more small farmers in the process. But that ...
Musk’s brain streaming Neuralink is far from commercialization
[Neuralink] is not yet a commercial product. The current studies are small-scale—they are true experiments, explorations of how the device ...
Scientists and ethicists raise eugenic concerns about embryonic gene editing even when it could block diseases
To date, no attempts have been made to predict the consequences of altering specific variants associated with polygenic diseases. In ...
Viewpoint: ‘Broligarchs’ and the emerging age of tech authoritarianism
There’s a dominant narrative in the media about why tech billionaires are sucking up to Donald Trump: Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos, all ...
How climate change is altering the look, taste and nutrition content of fruits and vegetables
The economic cost of food waste in Australia is staggering. It’s estimated $36.6 billion is lost to the economy every year ...
University study: Cataloguing the negative impact of agricututral pesticides on insects and animals—and what should be done
Pesticides affect a diverse range of non-target species and may be linked to global biodiversity loss. The magnitude of this ...
Running the modern IVF gauntlet—When is it time to give up?
That there are so many things that doctors can try now has made [in vitro fertilization] feel somewhat limitless. Andrea ...
Edging toward Agriculture 3.0: Genetics, irrigation and fertilization are improving—Is that enough for the leap forward necessary to feed the world?
Sometime in the 1980s, an unprecedented change in the human condition occurred. For the first time in known history, the ...
‘Digital twins’: 3-D digital organs are poised to revolutionize medical treatments
“Digital twins” are the same size and shape as the real thing. They work in the same way. But they ...
European Union edges closer to fast-tracking gene edited crop approvals, debating plan to shelve activst and organic industry-supported patent restrictions
The Polish Presidency have proposed an amendment which removes the proposed patent ban for NGT [gene edited] plants, plant material ...
Claims of living well past 100 turn out to be mostly bogus
The allure of extreme longevity has beckoned for centuries. Research careers and marketing campaigns have been built on the idea ...
Viewpoint: Courts challenge the contrived but growing relationship between trial lawyers and environmental activists
For a decade now, a brigade of climate zealots, flanked by their legal consiglieres, has been waging a shadow war ...
Vegetable and seed oils vs. Animal fat oil: Which Is the healthy choice
The seed oil versus animal fat debate has gone from a niche topic among wellness influencers on social media to ...
Genetics, irrigation and fertilization: What needs to evolve to increase global food production without destroying our planet
Almost one out of ten people still do not get enough to eat. But hunger today is generally due to low ...
Sexual selection: How evolution is making men taller and larger while female growth only edges up
According to a new study, men around the world have gained height and weight twice as fast as women over ...
If it navigates a poltical gauntlet, FDA’s proposed nutritional label could actually have constructive impact
The proposed “Nutrition Info box” is set to transform how Americans shop for food, offering a quick “Low,” “Med,” or ...
Longevity: Good habits or good genes?
When it comes to longevity, does it matter more whether you have “good genes” or “good habits?” While the factors ...
