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Viewpoint: 4 very real AI doomsday scenarios
An engineered pandemic, a nuclear war, a planet paved over with paper clip factories: AI researchers have floated plenty of ...
Facing pressure from Trump administration, fewer hospitals offer medical treatment for transgender minors
At least six major U.S. hospitals have signed deals with the Department of Justice agreeing to stop providing gender-affirming hormones ...
22-year frozen embryo: In one of the longest delayed births ever, middle-aged Greek couple gives birth to a daughter
A 54-year-old Greek woman has given birth to a healthy baby girl conceived from an embryo that spent 22 years ...
Trump EPA rolls back power-plant climate rules—and moves to block future carbon limits
The Trump administration's Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to repeal the rules that limit greenhouse gas emissions from coal- and ...
Anthropic claims to thwart AI-based cyberattacks, surveillance, and biological weapons research
In its third disclosure since March 2025, the AI company detailed threat activity it identified between December 2025 and August ...
California, Washington, Oregon forge immunization alliance to safeguard vaccine access against federal undermining
The Democratic governors of Washington state, Oregon and California announced ... that they have created an alliance to establish their ...
100 years after the Scopes trial, creationist beliefs show no sign of waning
Some people thought the 1925 Scopes monkey trial marked a cultural defeat for biblical fundamentalism. But a century after what ...
Georgia’s heartbeat law: Hospital says they must keep brain-dead woman on life support until the birth of the fetus
With [the mother's] due date still more than three months away, it could be one of the longest such pregnancies ...
‘No more dudes in dresses’: Pentagon implementing Defense Secretary Hegseth’s directive to purge 1,000 transgender military
The Pentagon will immediately begin moving as many as 1,000 openly identifying transgender service members out of the military and ...
Gene therapy offers hope for people with rare, exorbitantly-expensive-to-treat diseases
[S]tunning advances in genetic science have revealed the subtle, insidious culprits behind [rare genetic] diseases and have started paving the ...
Requiem for junk food? RFK, Jr. proposes banning the use of SNAP food stamps on non-essential junk foods but delivering won’t be easy
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the newly confirmed health and human services secretary, and Brooke Rollins, the new agriculture secretary, have both ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Since the repeal of Roe v. Wade, strict state anti-abortion laws have led to the prosecution of hundreds of women for pregnancy-related crimes
In the year after the U.S. Supreme Court ended the nationwide right to abortion in its Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s ...
In face of Florida lab grown meat ban, Upside Foods hosts cultivated meat tasting party
As Florida’s ban on “lab-grown” meat is set to go into effect [soon], one manufacturer hosted a last hurrah — at ...
Ban upheld prohibiting transgender swimmer Lia Thomas from competing in women’s races
Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas failed in her challenge against rules that stop her from competing in elite women’s races because ...
With just a sample of fluid surrounding a baby in the womb, researchers can make mini organs to test out potential medical treatments
Scientists have created miniorgans from cells floating in the fluid that surrounds a fetus in the womb—opening new area of ...
Modern humans co-existed with at least seven now extinct hominid ancestors, and in many cases integrated their DNA
Ancient DNA technology has revolutionized the way we study human history and has quickly taken off, with a constant stream ...
‘It’s just hard to be profitable’: Indoor farming is a booming industry — so why are so many farms failing?
Eden Green Technology is one of the latest crop of indoor farming companies seeking their fortunes with green factories meant ...
Fact checking lab-grown meat rejectionists: No, animal cells used to make cultivated meat do not cause cancer
Meat grown in labs is made using cells taken from animals, but those cells are not cancerous and there are many ...
Birth control pill approved for over-the-counter sale with no age restriction, available early next year
Federal regulators on [July 13] approved the nation’s first over-the-counter birth control pill in a landmark decision that will soon ...
Viewpoint: Food upcycling — Maybe the key to food sustainability isn’t growing more crops, but cutting back food waste
[The Salt and Straw] ice cream chain is among those at the forefront of the upcycling movement, the process of ...
A handful of patients inherited an early-onset Alzheimer’s gene — but never got the disease. Can they provide clues to preventing dementia?
Now scientists are on the lookout for even more Alzheimer’s escapees — people who may have simply assumed they didn’t ...
Gene therapy delivered directly to the brain treats extremely rare disease in children
When Rylae-Ann Poulin was a year old, she didn’t crawl or babble like other kids her age. A rare genetic ...
From 2,000 to 330,000: Monarch butterfly count soars in California since 2020 low — but still far below millions in the 1980s
The population of western monarch butterflies wintering along the California coast has rebounded for a second year in a row ...
Treating diseases in the womb: In medical first, doctors treat Pompe disease before birth
A toddler is thriving after doctors in the U.S. and Canada used a novel technique to treat her before she ...
‘We are out on the far edge of experimentation’: Lone volunteer in Duchenne muscular dystrophy CRISPR gene editing study dies
The lone volunteer in a unique study involving a gene-editing technique has died, and those behind the trial are now ...
