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Anti-vax Texas Senate candidate Ken Paxton alleges conspiracy by doctors, drugmakers, and insurers to push childhood vaccination for profit
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, now the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, has launched a sweeping investigation accusing pediatricians, vaccine ...
The genetics of personality
Personality isn’t written in a handful of genes — it’s scribbled across more than a thousand of them. A massive ...
Viewpoint: Kennedy’s ‘bad science’: MAGA embrace bolsters HHS secretary’s influence and popularity
Pennsylvania has recorded four measles deaths this year — the state’s first in 35 years — yet the federal government’s ...
Energy-sucking data centers are unpopular across the political spectrum. Could moving them into space change the equation?
Google plans to launch a satellite on Oct. 1 that can run its artificial intelligence technologies in orbit, an early ...
RFK, Jr. likely violated federal ethics guidelines in accepting more than $4,275,000 in gifts and book advances from MAHA allies
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. accepted $4 million in book advances and more than $270,000 in gifts over the ...
After Idaho criminalized abortion providers in 2022, one-third of obstetricians fled. Health care advocates are making rural health the case for repealing the ban
Idaho's campaign to overturn one of the nation's toughest abortion bans is centering on doctors rather than abortion itself, as ...
AI sparks a bioweapons race
Artificial intelligence chatbots can’t yet hand a bad actor a ready-made plague, but the queries Anthropic flagged this month suggest ...
White House drafting executive order to control what OMB Director Vought claims are “woke” NIH science grants
The White House is drafting an executive order that would create an external committee with power to veto National Institutes ...
Did COVID vaccines kill 2,500 service members? RFK Jr. hires an investigator who compares vaccine promoters to Nazi doctors
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has hired Lt. Col. Theresa Long, an Army doctor with no vaccine or virology ...
Can cloud seeding ease the deepening drought across the American West?
A 26-foot tower resembling a football goalpost in Moab, Utah, pulses electrical charges into clouds — and its maker says ...
Five alarming ways ‘autonomous AI’ can go rogue
In July 2026, Hugging Face discovered a cyberattack unlike any it had seen before — only to learn the culprit ...
‘The cure for measles is chicken soup and vitamin A’: Kennedy’s dangerous history of mocking vaccines
In 2021, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stood on a Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, farm and told 1,500 Amish attendees that health ...
This is what the AI boom looks like
The milestones for artificial intelligence keep getting grander. In 2023, an A.I. system passed the bar exam. In 2025, the ...
Viewpoint: Trump’s relaxed controls on supplying China with microchips could undermine U.S. AI dominance
Americans often hear about China’s having surpassed the United States in the manufacturing of emerging technologies, including clean energy, electric ...
Prioritizing AI, robotics, and nuclear energy: Trump administration is guiding research funding away from independent universities to private companies
President Trump’s science adviser told lawmakers on [July 22, 2026] that the Trump administration intended to drastically overhaul the country’s ...
Viewpoint: Trump appoints climate change hoax promoter to head influential government policy project
The Trump administration has appointed a critic of mainstream climate science to oversee the federal government’s flagship report on how ...
Science under siege: As federal funding dries up, top research universities are turning out fewer PhDs
The number of students admitted to Ph.D. programs this fall dropped 15 percent from [2025], according to data from over ...
2,300 endangered species: Controversial de-extinction company Colossal Biosciences joins U.S. effort to preserve their DNA
The Trump administration and a company that is promising to bring long-gone animals back from extinction announced a partnership on ...
Signal or noise? Study links GLP-1 drugs to slowing the aging process
A theory that GLP-1 medications like Ozempic or Zepbound might help people live longer has been bandied about by biohackers ...
Kennedy blocks preventive health care panel that reviews treatments for HIV, diabetes, and cancer from meeting — for fourth time
For the fourth time, the Trump administration has prevented an important public health panel from meeting as planned. The panel, ...
Viewpoint: As MAHA blows up over Supreme Court ruling limiting glyphosate litigation, Trump offers toothless plan to reduce pesticides in food
President Trump, facing a backlash from supporters of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for allying himself with the chemical ...
How the dubious, Trump-backed, addictive drug kratom could enrich cabinet secretary Markwayne Mullin
Sold in gas stations across America, kratom has been linked to liver toxicity, seizures and thousands of deaths. Powerful figures ...
Viewpoint: RFK, Jr. ignores oversight of vast HHS programs to focus on his pet obsessions—and gets much of the science wrong
Mr. Kennedy has shown little interest in managing the details of work in his department, according to multiple colleagues. Instead, ...
Six key health insights from taking weight-loss drugs
Tens of millions of people around the world are now taking drugs like Ozempic — a kind of real-time experiment ...
Viewpoint—N.A.D.+: Why Gwenyth Paltrow’s heralded anti-aging supplement doesn’t work
Gwyneth Paltrow has tried it. So have Kendall Jenner and Hailey Bieber. ... Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, or N.A.D.+, has been ...
Viewpoint: Who is RFK, Jr.’s newly-appointed CDC senior counselor, Sara Brenner — Vaccine skeptic and self-proclaimed “MAHA mom”
When President Trump named a new leadership team at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention two weeks ago, public ...
Relying on your doctor or AI miracle cure, death and debilitation? Neurologist makes the wrong choice
... Ben knew that his 75-year-old father had chronic lymphocytic leukemia, a type of white blood cell cancer that is ...
Vagus nerve wellness grift: How to build a billion dollar business. Are you listening, Kelly Ripa?
“There are billions of web impressions and social media posts on the vagus nerve,” said Dr. Kevin Tracey, a neurosurgeon ...
