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A liver extracted from a genetically modified pig transplanted into a 71-year-old man
Surgeons in China have for the first time transplanted a section of liver extracted from a genetically modified pig into ...
Male Gen Zers’ rejection of reason: ‘Science can slide into conspiracy-tinged mazes rooted in misinformation’
After 30 years as a researcher, science communicator and university science teacher, I’ve been unsettled by what appears to be ...
Viewpoint: The MAHA movement’s wrongheaded war on glyphosate is part of a misplaced broader attack on modern agriculture
The MAHA movement’s war on glyphosate is part of a broader war on modern farming — not only herbicides and ...
Can devout Muslims or Jews receive organ transplants from genetically-altered pigs?
Now biotech companies are raising genetically altered pigs to transplant their organs into patients whose own kidneys have failed. Experts in the ...
On the cusp of dramatic advances in cancer treatments, Trump sharply curtails publicly-funded research
When America declared war on cancer more than 50 years ago, there was a misguided assumption outside the scientific community that ...
While chronic illness mortality has declined globally, progress stalls in the U.S.
A new global study shows that deaths from such “noncommunicable” conditions have been declining in most countries — but the ...
Trump administration claims $10 million worth of contraceptives headed to low-income countries destroyed — Belgium finds stockpile intact
The Trump administration told The New York Times ... that it had destroyed millions of dollars’ worth of birth control ...
Historians view Trump’s assault on science as page pulled from the autocrats’ playbook to secure more power
The war on science began four centuries ago when the Roman Catholic Church outlawed books that reimagined the heavens. Subsequent ...
Viewpoint: Profiling Dr. David Geier, the anti-vax quack who is guiding RFK, Jr.’s vaccine policy
By Jessica SteierGraphics by Sara Chodosh and Taylor Maggiacomo Dr. Steier is a public health scientist who specializes in science ...
RFK, Jr. says ‘let measles run its course’. That’s what some said in 1990, and we had an urban health crisis
Few expected a major return of measles to the United States this year, a quarter-century after it was declared eliminated here. But return ...
Mixed results: Lung from a genetically modified pig transplanted into a human
[I]n the first procedure of its kind, Chinese scientists on Monday reported transplanting a lung from a pig into a brain-dead ...
Viewpoint: Science is now hopelessly tribal, and the Trump administration is making it worse
Public health in America has always been divisive because it sits at the intersection of science, government authority, personal freedom ...
Sophie’s Choice: ‘My 29-year old daughter’s AI bot helped her write her suicide note’—but didnt alert anyone about her deteriorating mental health. Can we program intervention?
Sophie’s Google searches suggest that she was obsessed with autokabalesis, which means jumping off a high place. Autodefenestration, jumping out ...
RFK, Jr.’s checkered crusade targeting food safety rules he considers too lax could upend the supplement industry that he vigorously embraces
In his first weeks as health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. declared war on an obscure regulatory process that many ...
Why are detectable rates of autism soaring in the U.S. but holding steady in other countries with a history of far better screening? It’s not vaccines or chemicals but ‘diagnosis inflation’
Almost every week, it seems, we read news of some new epidemic — medical, psychological, social. Taken together, these alarming ...
Viewpoint: What’s the long-term impact of Trump’s attacks on universities
“I have not experienced, across 46 years of higher education, a period where there’s been this much distance” between the ...
Politics of agriculture? Large southern farms expect to benefit from $258 million in Trump subsidies but others face grimmer future
In the high plains of western Texas, 600 or so farms in Gaines County are projected to receive an additional ...
Woke AI: Trump shifts monitoring focus from chemical and biological weapons to rooting out ‘political correctness’
When the Biden administration created an “A.I. Safety Institute” two years ago, its charge was to act as a kind ...
Will deadly measles outbreaks become the new normal?
There have now been more measles cases in 2025 than in any other year since the contagious virus was declared ...
After Trump-ordered cuts, what’s left of USAID?
As the United States Agency for International Development was being dismantled in early February, aid workers and officials in Washington ...
M&M’s and Fruit Loops — two symbols of dyes in processed food — are resisting RFK, Jr.’s call for ‘voluntary’ replacements
[A]fter he declared war on synthetic food dyes, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has already secured the cooperation of ...
Viewpoint: Gay journalist explains how gay quest for equal rights has been subverted by queer radicals
...Gay marriage is backed by around 70 percent of Americans, and discrimination against gay men, lesbians and transgender people is opposed by ...
Liberal majority on Wisconsin Supreme Court overturns pre-Civil War abortion ban
The Wisconsin Supreme Court invalidated a state abortion ban...that was enacted in 1849 and had been dormant for the last ...
Viewpoint: ‘Gavi has ignored the science’: RFK, Jr. pulls funding from international vaccine agency
The U.S. health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has moved to undermine public immunization programs in the United States, ...
‘Wildly distorting reality’: Some A.I. chatbots go down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorse ‘wild, mystical belief systems’
[Tech] journalists at The New York Times have received quite a few...messages, sent by people who claim to have unlocked ...
AI hallucinations: They’re getting worse
More than two years after the arrival of ChatGPT, tech companies, office workers and everyday consumers are using A.I. bots ...
How worried should you be about the health effects of microplastics?
Animal studies indicate that microplastics may harm reproduction, particularly sperm quality. They can also affect lung and gut functioning and ...
Kennedy claims the 1960s were a golden era of health, with far less disease. What’s the reality?
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, often says that when his uncle was president in the early 1960s, Americans ...
