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Ancient genetic oddity makes whales and other aquatic mammals deadly susceptible to common pesticides
Over the past 50 million years, a group of small, hoofed mammals gradually evolved into today’s whales and dolphins. In ...
‘Stuck on the spin cycle’: Probiotic supplements linked to ‘brain fog’
Given their current popularity, you might assume that probiotics—capsules containing a mix of “good” bacteria that are said to rebalance ...
Ancient worms resurrected after spending more than 32,000 years on ice
A team of Russian scientists is lining themselves up to be the opening cast of a John Carpenter film. Earlier ...
Genetic data share: 23andMe partners with drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline
23andMe customers might just play a role in helping create one of Big Pharma’s next blockbuster drugs. On [July 25, ...
Could beef jerky trigger manic episodes for some people?
There is no singular cause of mental illness. Any number of things—our genes, environment, and even social mores—play a role in ...
Machines that decide ‘who lives and who dies’? AI community pledges never to build them
Hundreds of companies and thousands of individuals, many of them researchers and engineers prominent in the fields of robotics and ...
Why our earliest memories are often imagined
If life is but a tapestry, then memory is the thread. But some of those threads may simply be imagined: ...
Cancer drug duo could lengthen life, boost elderly immune system
Drugs that can lengthen life have long been a hallmark of speculative science fiction—many hope for an invention that could ...
No longer a fringe theory? Herpes virus can spark ‘cascade of events’ leading to Alzheimer’s
For decades, the idea that a bacteria or virus could help cause Alzheimer’s disease was dismissed as a fringe theory ...
Search for alien life gets boost from new NASA project
The ability to detect life on distant worlds still eludes us, but a new project coordinated by NASA now takes ...
Synthetic ‘skin’ could return pain sensations to users of prosthetic limbs
Current prosthetic limbs aren’t yet capable of transmitting complex sensations like texture or pain to the user, but a recent ...
Giant panda discovery: DNA from 22,000-year-old skull suggests unknown lineage in China
DNA from a 22,000-year-old fossilized panda skull suggests an entirely separate lineage of giant pandas once roamed the area that ...
This legal squabble is challenging the way we handle DNA ownership
Toronto businessman Harold Peerenboom and Marvel Entertainment chairman Isaac “Ike” Perlmutter were locked in an absurd suburban skirmish, bickering over ...
Rethinking the search for alien life: Let’s look for their space junk
SETI enthusiasts have devised all sorts of complicated ways for us to find signs of alien life, but a new ...
Cancer patient’s ‘spontaneous remission’—not her diet—will be included in Harvard study
Over the past few weeks, multiple media outlets have written about Kathy Bero, a 54-year-old woman who claims her breast cancer 12 years ago ...
17,000-year-old route to North America could redefine human migration history
The first people to cross into North America from Eurasia did so by traveling through the Bering Strait, or so ...
Are plants conscious? Here’s what the experts think
Michael Marder Ikerbasque Research Professor, Philosophy, University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz and author of Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life, ...
Astronomical cycles may have influenced animal evolution on Earth
A team of researchers from the United States and New Zealand took a look at how likely species were to ...
Viewpoint: I know my skin better than a ‘DNA-optimized’ skincare routine does
LifeDNA purports to take your DNA data from companies like 23andMe, and, relying on findings from “over 1,100 peer-reviewed studies,” ...
Does birth control affect who women are attracted to?
A commonly touted theory about how women’s attraction to men works might be all wrong, suggests a new paper published this week ...
DNA health and and ancestry test for pets? Why would you want to do that?
The market for at-home DNA tests has exploded. Curious to find out about their ancestry, risk of disease, diet, and athletic ...
Writer agrees to be biohacked. Now she wonders if it was worth it
Grinders are hackers, but the hardware they aim to hack is the human body. They are transhumanist in the most ...
Neanderthals’ brains may have doomed them to extinction
Using computers and MRI scans, researchers have created the most detailed reconstruction of a Neanderthal brain to date, offering new ...
Quest to figure out why our hair turns gray yields new answer
Scientists think they’ve stumbled upon a newly discovered mechanism that could explain why some people’s hair turns gray and others ...
44 genetic variants linked to depression — and we may all carry some of them
Depression is a tricky beast. Symptoms vary widely from person to person, as does the response to treatment. But there’s no ...
The ambitious effort to sequence the DNA of earth’s 1.5 million animals, plants and fungi
In what will undoubtedly be the largest genomic sequencing effort of all time, an international consortium of researchers is organizing ...
How artificial intelligence could push us closer to nuclear war
As AI slowly erodes the foundations that made the Cold War possible, we may find ourselves hurtling towards all-out nuclear ...
AI personhood? European Parliament under fire for proposing recognizing legal status of robots
Over 150 experts in AI, robotics, commerce, law, and ethics from 14 countries have signed an open letter denouncing the ...
