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5% of the population claim near-death experiences: Psychedelics may be a way to understand what happens in our brain
One person felt a sensation of “slowly floating into the air” as images flashed around. Another recalled “the most profound ...
Free will and the brain: Challenges to long-standing belief that that addiction is a disease
For decades, medical science has classified addiction as a chronic brain disease, but the concept has always been something of ...
Progeria solution: Gene editing takes us one step closer to curing the disease that makes children rapidly age
A cure for an ultrarare disease, progeria, a disease that speeds up aging in children, could be on the horizon ...
Singapore becomes first country to sell lab-grown meat directly to the general public
It was a remarkable moment in the annals of food, perhaps even humanity: A store in Singapore started selling lab-grown ...
Mars Base Alpha: Inside Elon Musk’s plans to build a Martian civilization of a million people in 20 years
Musk has directed SpaceX employees to drill into the design and details of a Martian city, according to people with ...
This is your brain on ‘magic mushrooms’
If you had to come up with a groovy visualization of the human brain on psychedelic drugs, it might look ...
‘Weapon of the future’: AI-powered war machines fuel potential new era of ‘killer robots’
Founders of Vyriy, a Ukrainian drone company, recently worked on a weapon of the future, a machine gun that can ...
Organic produce made up 15% of all US fruit and vegetable sales in 2022. Is the organic label really worth the cost?
In 2022, organics accounted for 15 percent of all fruit and vegetable sales in the United States despite being far pricier than conventional ...
Benefits and risks of newly-approved early Alzheimer’s disease drug, Eli Lilly’s Kisunla (donanedab)
The Food and Drug Administration on July 2 approved a new drug for Alzheimer’s disease, the latest in a novel ...
Delaying menopause? Why keeping ovaries working longer could potentially prevent age-related diseases
Scientists are studying how to keep the ovaries working longer — and potentially, prevent age-related diseases in the process ...
Pup science: ‘Peering deep into the bodies and minds of cats and dogs to understand why we, and they, bond’
Scientists around the world are peering deep into the bodies and minds of cats and dogs, hoping to learn more ...
‘It’s no wonder that music, like language, is universal among us’: Rhythm improves human cooperation, giving us a major survival advantage
Research team recorded songs in 55 languages to find that songs share certain features not found in speech ...
Mounting heat waves come with more health dangers for those who take anti-depressants, allergy meds and related drugs
Millions of people across the country are taking medications that may make them more susceptible to heat-related illnesses ...
How long is forever? Chemical manufacturers challenge what they believe are unscientific attacks on PFAS — what environmental activists call ‘forever chemicals’
Chemical and manufacturing groups sued the federal government [June 10] over a landmark drinking-water standard that would require cleanup of ...
Murkiness of science around PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ dangers fuels tort lawyer bonanza
At an industry presentation about dangerous “forever chemicals,” lawyers predicted a wave of lawsuits that could dwarf asbestos litigation ...
Abortion pill remains legal for now, but ruling on technical grounds keeps door open for possible future ban
The justices’ unanimous ruling, in F.D.A. v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, rejected a challenge to the most commonly used abortion ...
COVID origin mystery persists: Here are arguments for and against animal-to-human and Wuhan lab leak theories
The origin of the Covid virus remains the pandemic’s biggest mystery, with U.S. officials remain the most divided ...
COVID lab leak hypothesis gains traction again — Broad Institute molecular biologist cites 5 key arguments
Although how the pandemic started has been hotly debated, a growing volume of evidence — gleaned from public records released ...
Battling disease: What happens when you blend generative AI and CRISPR gene editing?
Much as ChatGPT generates poetry, a new A.I. system devises blueprints for microscopic mechanisms that can edit your DNA ...
Wegovy and Ozempic: How do GLP-1 weight-loss drugs work?
Here’s a primer on Ozempic and other popular drugs being widely used for diabetes, weight loss, and obesity ...
Is there an evolutionary explanation for human’s love of music?
In a new study, researchers found universal features of songs across many cultures, suggesting that music evolved in our distant ...
Viewpoint: Innovative Amazon basin companies are replacing cattle grazing land with new forests. Will their ‘green scheme’ help limit the impact of climate change?
Re.green's aim, along with a handful of other companies, is to create a whole new industry that can make standing ...
Viewpoint: COVID vaccines have exceedingly rare but serious side effects. Why didn’t we listen to the people who had bad reactions?
The Covid vaccines, a triumph of science and public health, are estimated to have prevented millions of hospitalizations and deaths. Yet even the best vaccines produce rare but ...
Some people hit 80 years old while retaining exceptional memories. What goes on in these ‘super-ager’ brains?
When it comes to aging, we tend to assume that cognition gets worse as we get older. Our thoughts may ...
Viewpoint: With weight loss drug prices plummeting, ‘it’s possible to imagine a future in which almost everyone is taking some variety of GLP-1 drug’
Last year was called the year of Ozempic, though it was also a year of Ozempic backlash and Ozempic shortages, which could persist for years ...
AI and CRISPR converge: Artificial intelligence generates gene editing blueprints to solve host of previously untreatable diseases
Generative A.I. technologies can write poetry and computer programs or create images of teddy bears and videos of cartoon characters that look like something from a ...
‘We need to take more risks’: Global biodiversity crisis prompts researchers to explore editing species to save them from from climate change-induced extinction
Habitat degradation, invasive species, infectious diseases and climate change have put many native animals in jeopardy and given Australia one ...
What is the meaning of life? Artificial intelligence is trying to find out
It took humans 134 years to discover Norn cells. Last summer, computers in California discovered them on their own in ...
