Big Think
What would happen if we suddenly stopped dreaming?
Rowan Hooper, the managing editor at New Scientist, reports that chronic dream deprivation is damaging our waking hours in numerous ways. … This ...
CRISPR can fix gene that causes intellectual impairment in men–fragile X syndrome
The fragile X syndrome is the most common form of intellectual impairment in men, affecting 1 out of 3,600 boys. Now, scientists ...
Price of evolution? Schizophrenia linked to development of complex brains
Schizophrenia affects only about 1% of the US population. The condition is typified by confused thoughts and speech, delusions and hallucinations. Symptoms ...
Video: Ancient virus could explain how human memories are formed
The particulars surrounding how our memory works has baffled neuroscientists for decades. Turns out, it’s a very sophisticated process involving ...
Lucid dreaming linked to higher creativity
Have you ever had a dream so real, you mistook it for reality? This is a state called lucid dreaming ...
Why human-like robots are creepy
The robot revolution is on the horizon...One report says that they’ll be commonplace by 2025. In another case, a professor claims ...
Brain damage may spur extreme religious fundamentalism, study finds
Scientists found that damage in a certain part of the brain is linked to an increase in religious fundamentalism. In ...
Feeling blue? Depression may have offered evolutionary advantage to our ancestors
Depressive symptoms have been found in every culture on Earth and throughout history...Unlike other psychiatric disorders, which are rare, depression ...
US next in line to test CRISPR gene editing technology on human cells
You probably know about CRISPR-Cas9. It’s the recently developed method for genetic engineering that’s brought costs down by 99%, and ...
Vaccine may soon help patients fight Alzheimer’s (along with some red wine)
Five million people in the US today struggle with Alzheimer’s...and approximately 47 million globally are stricken, this being the most ...
Pentagon wants to develop ‘safe genes’ to stop biohackers from making weapons with CRISPR
[T]he Pentagon is moving to...find a “safe course” to rein [gene editing technology] in. But it will be a difficult balancing ...
Researchers may have found key to cancer cure in four-strand DNA
One problem with cancer treatments today is that they attack all cells indiscriminately. Chemotherapy for instance, hurts healthy cells and ...
Creation of first synthetic genome may lead us closer to superhumans
[G]eneticists are now getting ever closer to, not just removing and replacing genes, but rewriting entire genomes...[G]eneticists at Harvard recently ...
Stanford biomedical ethics chair predicts end of reproductive sex
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [H]ow [do] we navigate ...
In GMO debate, what’s worse? Biased scientists or uncritical media?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The headline on the ...
Fear of Fear: Will Campbell’s support for mandatory GMO labeling break impasse?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Campbell Soup company, ...
Is Big Organic guilty of ‘Merchants of Doubt’ behavior?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Is Exxon Mobil’s behavior ...
Carcinogenic conundrum: Why we fear glyphosate but love bacon
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. But beyond putting the ...
Beware mudslinging: How abuse of FOIA derails discussion of science and GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In general, FOIA requests ...
GMO label may not dissuade buyers but rather encourage sales
Opponents of genetically modified food claim that their demand for labeling is only intended to provide choice for consumers. In ...
Claims that technology is making children autistic are unfounded
Here we go again. Recently, British newspapers: The Telegraph, The Independent and The Metro (a paper given out free on public transport right across the ...
E.O. Wilson: Synthetic life isn’t going to kill us
Biologist Edward O. Wilson, a two-time Pulitzer Prize recipient and the author of The Meaning of Human Existence, sees the future of biology ...
Just label it: Risk expert says food companies’ fears about GMO stigmatization unwarranted
There are a lot of pros and cons about agricultural biotechnology, AKA GMOs. Factual pros and cons about human safety ...
Center for Food Safety on how to trash a healthier eco-friendly potato—It’s a GMO!
Cooking potatoes (and many foods) causes the Maillard reaction, an interaction of sugars and amino acids perhaps most familiar in ...
MIT prof Nicholas Negroponte: GM food is ‘very important future’
Recent studies by KPMG, the UK Government Office of Science, and now the U.S. National Science Foundation-supported National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center claim that civilization ...
‘Hateful’ example of anti-GMO activism illustrates dangers when emotion overpowers reason
There is a frightening, hateful turn of events taking place right now that anyone involved in the GMO issue, or ...
Study claiming organic more nutritious captures why it’s harder to figure out risk
A study in the news last week perfectly captures why it’s getting harder and harder to figure out what’s risky ...
Science ‘court’ to rule on ‘facts’ in contentious GMO debate
When the assessment of scientific facts becomes distorted with emotion as in the heated GMO debate, we may need to ...
