Science Literacy Project Daily Digest
‘I feel like it’s a little bit of health marketing bullshit’: Exosomes might not help you stay young but they might have other science benefits
Any cell biologist ... will tell you what exosomes really are: tiny little blobs that bud off from cells and ...
HHS director nominee RFK Jr unlikely to be an strong advocate for American conventional farming
His potential influence over the USDA is unclear following Trump's announcement, but he does appear to have permission from Trump ...
Colorado Governor Jared Polis shocks health officials, endorses DJT’s pick of RFK, Jr. as Health and Human Services director
The Democratic governor said he was “excited” by Trump’s nomination, despite Polis touting the day before the creation of the Governors ...
Obesity rates in America are plateauing but skepticism remains that it is a sustainable trend
According to the CDC, as of August 2023, 40.3 percent of U.S. adults—some 100 million people—met the clinical definition for ...
Kenyan High Court rebuffs activist suit to block GMO food imports
The High Court [of Kenya] has dismissed petitions challenging the lifting of the ban on genetically modified (GMO) foods.... Justice ...
With AI, farmers can drastically shorten the timeline it takes to optimize their operations but is resistance to the practice holding them back?
Agriculture has always been a profession steeped in tradition, requiring years of experience to master the nuances of the land ...
As farming becomes more unpredictable, agricultural technology is stepping up to meet the challenge
Today’s farms and other agricultural operations work far differently than those of just a few decades ago, primarily thanks to ...
Viewpoint: Ideological anti-race scientist claims ‘American tech money is fueling a resurgence or ‘race science’
“Civilisation is going to pieces … if we don’t look out the white race will be – will be utterly ...
Inside the ‘minds’ of AI companions: Uncensored programs bring mimic human-like conversations
In September, OpenAI unveiled an ambitious new language model capable of working through challenging problems with a simulated kind of ...
Addiction: Yet another health problem Ozempic and other weight loss drugs might help address
[Dr. Steven Klein is an] addiction medicine fellow at the nonprofit Caron Treatment Centers’ residential treatment facility in Pennsylvania. He ...
A scientist’s brainy trip: How psilocybin creates an extraordinary new sense of space, time and self
In the name of science, Dr. Nico Dosenbach had scanned his own brain dozens of times. But this was the first time ...
Running and longevity: Sub-four-minute milers increase their lifespan by up to 9 years
In the mid-20th century, breaking the four-minute mile was considered an insurmountable feat. Then came Roger Bannister in 1954, who ...
Plasma exchange: What is the skinny on the suddenly-hot longevity therapy for the aging wealthy
A medical treatment used for health emergencies and autoimmune disorders is becoming the hot new wellness trend for CEOs, athletes, ...
Citing the precautionary principle, South African high court rescinds approval of drought tolerant GMO corn
South Africa’s Supreme Court delivered a ground-breaking ruling that reversed the approval of [genetically] modified organisms (GMOs), specifically, a drought-resistant ...
99+% pesticide free: While activists claim chemicals soak our fruits and vegetables, USDA provides facts
[T]he U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its annual Pesticide Data Program report to little fanfare or attention. We’ve said repeatedly ...
Threatened by warming temperatures, wineries may be forced to turn to gene editing
Warmer temperatures are advancing grape ripening and harvest dates by 2-3 weeks compared to 40 years ago. Higher temperatures are ...
Farmers incorporating AI to generate risk assessments could help soften resistance to genetically modified crops
The acceptance of genetically modified (GM) crops is still a controversial topic that presents major obstacles to their general use ...
Western diets need to change to meet sustainability challenges. How resistant will consumers be to munch on insects or plant-based meats
What will the diets of the future look like? The answer depends in part on what foods Westerners can be ...
‘Genetically modified Golden Rice poses no dangers while offering life-saving potential’—Its opponents have manufactured a deceitful counter narrative
Vitamin A deficiency (VAD), practically unknown in the western world, has been a deadly public health problem in parts of ...
Why we need a moonshot project for a universal flu vaccine
H5N1 bird flu is here. It’s moving from animals to people in ways not seen before. It’s spreading to new ...
‘Intelligence in a dish’: ‘Brain organoids’ grown on petri dishes show signs of developing eyes
The proto-eyes are what really disturbed me. For the past decade, medical researchers have been growing living, miniature replicas of ...
Liminal space: The brief moments between wake to sleep where your brain exists in the ‘twilight zone’
Each night as you lay down to sleep, you embark on an extraordinary journey – not through space, but through ...
Plastic waste as food? Microorganisms may one day be able to feed a growing world population
In 2019, an agency within the U.S. Department of Defense released a call for research projects to help the military deal with the ...
Why do people who suffer from certain mental illnesses ‘hear voices’?
Auditory hallucinations are likely the result of abnormalities in two brain processes: a “broken” corollary discharge that fails to suppress ...
Viewpoint: A Trump revolution is coming to the Environmental Protection Agency. Here’s a guide to what might realistically happen
A return to the presidency by Donald Trump has raised questions about the future of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ...
In the evolutionary race, humans are running the distance
Many experts, such as professor Dan Lieberman, think that humans have evolved to be distance runners – the better to ...
Pesticides cause prostate cancer? Cedars Sinai Medical Center epidemiologist criticizes ‘biased’ ecological study
A recent study published in Cancer, an international interdisciplinary journal of the American Cancer Society, concluded that there is an association ...
