Science Literacy Project Daily Digest
The first AI-guided garden where the plants tell you when they are thirsty
Have you ever joyously stepped out to your backyard garden, freshly brewed coffee in hand, only to find your meticulously cared-for ...
European Green Deal: European Union rolls out sustainable food agriculture monitoring platform
Transforming the food system is an urgent challenge to achieve the sustainable development goals and key EU policy priorities, among ...
Gene-edited soybeans are the latest plant to pave the way towards sustainable agriculture
A new experiment in soybeans is genetically engineering soybean plants in ways that improve their resistance to differing stresses like ...
Two different human species almost certainly encountered each other on the banks of a Kenyan lake 1.5 million years ago
Muddy footprints left on a Kenyan lakeside suggest two of our early human ancestors were nearby neighbors some 1.5 million ...
The global food system is already under stress from climate change. Here’s what the future might hold
The impact of climate change on yields will depend on several factors: the type of crop, how much warmer the ...
Podcast: Banned in Europe? Here’s how and why the US is more relaxed in its approvals of chemical additives in food
“How is America allowed to feed us certain products that are harmful and banned in other countries?” [Vox reader, Sommer] ...
Balancing traditional farming practices with agricultural biotechnology
Agtech innovations, such as drones and robotics, are being used to address labor shortages in agriculture across various countries. These ...
Non-responders: Not losing weight on Wegovy or other GLP-1 drugs? You are not alone
In clinical trials, most participants taking Wegovy or Mounjaro to treat obesity lost an average of 15% to 22% of ...
With climate change threatening commodity foods, these technologies are coming to the rescue
Food staples like coffee and cocoa are already suffering the effects of severe weather brought on by climate change and ...
Who would be hit hardest if the herbicide glyphosate is banned on US farms?
Marketing consultant The Directions Group has released a report titled Farm Bill Programs and the Role of Crop Protection Tools, exploring ...
Eating extra portions of salmon, beans and brown rice for protection from vitamin B1 deficiency? Here’s why it might not protect you from starving your brain
Scientists from EMBL Hamburg and CSSB have uncovered the molecular mechanisms behind how the body absorbs vitamin B1, potentially leading ...
How does our brain produce actions and thoughts?
The massive networks of neurons in our brains produce complex behaviors, like actions and thought. Now physicists want to understand ...
Longevity expert says tinkering with the aging process won’t help you live longer
“We don’t have an ageing intervention yet,” says [Dr Stuart Jay Olshansky] ... The only way humans are going to ...
We all bear the consequences of Neanderthal and Denisovan promiscuity
For much of our history, we coexisted with other members of our genus, and our prehistoric ancestors didn’t waste the ...
As risks in agriculture from climate change escalate, gene editing offers potential remedies
In the words of Luis Planas, Minister of Agriculture [of Spain]: “ The future demands producing more and better and ...
Podcast: Scientists harness gene editing to engineer disease- and climate-resilient wheat
By 2030, Africa will account for 53 percent of the world’s population living in hunger, primarily due to climate change and ...
AI will influence human evolution. Here’s how
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more common and sophisticated, its effects on human lives and societies raises new questions. A ...
Excuse for eating dessert? Is your sweet tooth genetically determined?
New research has found that people with a genetic defect in their ability to digest sucrose eat less cake, sweets, ...
You are taking Ozempic or Wegovy and aren’t losing weight? 20% of patients are in the same boat. Here’s why
In clinical trials, most participants taking Wegovy or Mounjaro to treat obesity lost an average of 15% to 22% of ...
New Scientist viewpoint: We must use genetic technologies now to avert the coming food crisis
There are two monumental problems with the world’s food system. Firstly, hundreds of millions of people can’t afford to buy ...
Viewpoint: Scientific American editor Laura Helmuth notorius for putting woke ideology ahead of science resigns under a cloud after a rant against Donald Trump
When magazines like Scientific American are run by ideologues producing biased dreck, it only makes it more difficult to defend ...
Republicans wary about RFK’s pledge to ‘wage war against ‘industrial agriculture, industrial meat production, factory farming and chemical based agriculture’
Republican Senators on Capitol Hill ... share their hesitations about [Donald] Trump’s preferred candidate to lead the Department of Health ...
Food tech trends for 2025
Over the past few years, food technology has seen an upsurge in innovation. In areas like precision fermentation and cultivated meat, ...
Lab grown Japanese quail is the latest cell grown food in restaurants
Hongkongers can get their first taste of cultured meat, also known as lab-grown meat, after an Australian food-tech start-up became ...
A.L. 288-1, better known as Lucy, was unearthed 50 years ago. Here is how a pile of bones reshaped our knowledge of human evolution
In 1974, researchers unearthed fossil AL 288-1, more commonly known as “Lucy”, in a 3.2-million-year-old deposit in the Hadar region of ...
Meet Daisy: The AI grandmother who is fighting back against scammers
AI-generated UK grandmother named “Daisy” is [making] scammers’ jobs a bit more tedious.... Using ChatGPT-like large language models, Daisy will ...
What can the food sector expect in a Trump administration?
In his first term, Donald Trump rolled back over 100 climate policies and pulled the US out of the Paris ...
