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‘Tech bro hype’ vs. serious science: The inside story on Colossal’s attempt to create a real-life Jurassic Park
Can and should we resurrect animal species that have been extinct for thousands of years? Such weighty, existential questions were ...
RFK, Jr.’s choice for U.S. Covid vaccine czar accused of unethical and misleading research
The MIT professor who has been appointed by Robert F Kennedy Jr to review the safety of Covid-19 vaccines has failed to ...
Viewpoint: Is the Republican-backed farm bill an agriculture industry giveaway?
The newly proposed, Republican-led farm bill includes a range of provisions opponents say constitute a “pesticide industry wishlist” that would ...
As measles cases soar in South Carolina, RFK, Jr.’s disciples lobby to gut vaccine mandates
As South Carolina grapples with a measles outbreak that has infected nearly 1,000 people, groups with ties to the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy ...
Are you hardwired to have an affair?
As an evolutionary biologist who studies sex and relationships, I’m fascinated by these two truths. We humans make romantic commitments ...
Viewpoint: What happens if the AI bubble bursts? An anti-modernist skeptic makes his case
If some time in an entirely possible future they come to make a movie about “how the AI bubble burst”, ...
83 children died in Samoa after RFK, Jr. lobbying stopped measles vaccinations, and then he lied about it to Congress, emails show
Over two days of questioning during his Senate confirmation hearings last year, Robert F Kennedy Jr repeated the same answer. He said ...
Microplastics are invading our brain and bodies? New research says the claims in most studies are wrong and some are a “joke”
High-profile studies reporting the presence of microplastics throughout the human body have been thrown into doubt by scientists who say ...
‘The dire wolf isn’t back’: A Colossal failure or the cutting-edge of conservation? Maybe both
When Colossal unveiled its interpretation of the dire wolf in April, the news made international headlines. Enthusiastic profiles in Time ...
Cassandras map the ‘inevitable’ AI doomsday
Right in the heart of Berkeley is the home of a group of modern-day Cassandras who rummage under the hood ...
AquaWomb offers a life support system for precarious, premature babies. Not everyone thinks that’s a great idea
In the US, more than 10,000 infants are born each year within ... precarious boundaries. Premature birth remains the nation’s second-leading cause of infant ...
Dumb transhumanist idea? Elon Musk and other technology superstars want to upload their brains to AI computers
Michael Hendricks, a professor of neurobiology at McGill, said: “Rich people who are fascinated with these dumb transhumanist ideas” are ...
Rod Kissmee claims ‘‘I have very strong sperm!’: Welcome to the wild west world of social media sperm selling
A man going by the name “Rod Kissme” claims to have “very strong sperm”. It may seem like an eccentric ...
Hitler’s DNA: Peaking into the Fuhrer’s brain—and pants
[A] Hitler male-line relative’s swab collected ... yielded a perfect Y-chromosome match. Whether they got the relative’s permission to use his ...
Viewpoint: Can urban farming and agroecology rescue our planet?
By 2050, more than two-thirds of us will live in cities. Could urban farming feed 10 billion? Urban agriculture (UA) covers everything ...
Activists decry EPA approval of effective PFAS family herbicide
The Trump administration is poised to again approve a new Pfas “forever chemical” pesticide ingredient, a move that is drawing ...
Viewpoint: The science behind seasonal affective disorder
Although seasonal affective disorder (Sad) was only formally recognised by psychiatrists in the 1980s, the link between the seasons, mood ...
ChatGPT and other generative AI suppresses brain activity. Is it slowly making us stupid?
With some MIT colleagues, [Nataliya] Kosmyna set up an experiment ... to monitor people’s brain activity while they wrote essays, ...
The super wealthy are convinced (at least very hopeful) that they can defy death
It’s easy to roll our eyes at people like Xi and Putin who wish for immortality, and to dismiss their ...
New AI tool can predict each person’s risk for more than 1,000 diseases
Scientists have developed a new artificial intelligence tool that can predict your personal risk of more than 1,000 diseases, and ...
Full-scale body scans of organs, vessels and bones could revolutionize disease detection
Scientists expect to gain unprecedented insights into human ageing and the earliest signs of disease after scanning 100,000 people from ...
UK commits within 10 years to screening all newborn babies for genetic diseases
Every baby in England is to have a DNA screening to avoid fatal diseases and receive personalised healthcare as part of the ...
‘Bee death spiral’? Pesticide-resistant Varroa mites driving record number of U.S. honeybee losses
“Every time I went out to the beehive there were less and less,” says Bret Adee, one of the largest ...
Planned Parenthood’s precarious future
Planned Parenthood, the massive, 108-year-old network of women’s and reproductive health clinics that operates almost 600 health centers across the United States, ...
Sperm donor with cancer-prone mutation conceived at least 67 children across Europe
The sperm of a man carrying a rare cancer-causing mutation was used to conceive at least 67 children, 10 of ...
Trump administration’s schizophrenic farm policy
Independent and organic farmers say chaos created by the Trump administration’s cuts has hurt their businesses, even as the US health secretary, Robert F ...
Investigation: TikTok is awash with misleading and potentially dangerous health information
More than half of all the top trending videos offering mental health advice on TikTok contain misinformation, a Guardian investigation ...
What will happen with 23andMe’s personal genetic data now that it’s been bought in a bankruptcy auction
[R]egeneron Pharmaceuticals has agreed to buy the genetic testing firm 23andMe Holding for $256m through a bankruptcy auction, the companies announced [last ...
