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Is the Chinese Communist Party targeting our burgers? Here’s why Republicans in Congress are worried China is poised to “dominate global food supply chains’
In late September, 11 Republican members of Congress wrote to the directors of national intelligence and the Department of Agriculture’s ...
Viewpoint—Podcast: ‘Trans people are the perfect targets’: The Supreme Court leaning toward upholding Tennessee’s ban on sex change operations for minors
Trump and the G.O.P. will have a governing trifecta in the new year, and amid the many policies that ...
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr ‘would put the public’s health in jeopardy: 75+ Nobel laureates urge Senate to reject HHS nominee
More than 75 Nobel Prize winners have signed a letter urging senators not to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect ...
‘It’s a crime not to increase the population’: Idaho, Kansas, and Missouri’s unprecedented rationale for banning women from seeking an abortion
The attorneys general of Idaho, Kansas, and Missouri, seeking to establish the states’ standing to challenge the federal government’s liberalized ...
Addiction: Yet another health problem Ozempic and other weight loss drugs might help address
[Dr. Steven Klein is an] addiction medicine fellow at the nonprofit Caron Treatment Centers’ residential treatment facility in Pennsylvania. He ...
Viewpoint: Who are the moms falling for the Donald Trump — RFK, Jr. conspiratorial Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) anti-vaccine partnership
When I first started writing, pre-Covid, about the anti-vaccine crowd I didn’t find them to be especially associated with either ...
Americans’ average lifespan now sits at 78 years. Will we continue to live longer?
The oldest human on record, Jeanne Calment of France, lived to the age of 122. What are the odds that ...
Asteroids could make a ‘tasty treat’ in space
Astronauts embarking on long-haul journeys in deep space can’t pack all the calories they will need in the form of ...
5 signs of dementia besides memory loss
Memory loss is the most well-known symptom of dementia, particularly Alzheimer’s disease. But experts say there are other warning signs ...
Will lab-based meat upend the trillion dollar global meat industry? Would it be any better for our health?
Worldwide, 80 billion animals are slaughtered every year for meat. Raising all those animals has already claimed most of the ...
Infections can cause cancer? Yes, and here are four of them
Most cases of stomach cancer are caused by bacteria. A majority of cervical cancers, as well as some genital and ...
Viewpoint: ‘Fake science’ and ‘conspiracy theories’ likely if Trump wins and appoints RFK, Jr. ‘health czar’
“I’m going to be deeply involved in helping to choose the people who can run F.D.A. and N.I.H. and C.D.C.,” ...
New York City’s ‘wet markets’ are posing a serious risk to public health
This is a live animal market in Queens. There are about 70 such establishments in New York City’s bustling neighborhoods, ...
What are apes trying to communicate when they use gestures. Is there an evolutionary link to humans?
Apes, [...] do not inherit specific gestures, but they do inherit the sense that they can use gestures to communicate ...
‘Men could become genetic mothers, women could be fathers’: The next technology after IVF could change the way we view parenthood gender
Consider in vitro gametogenesis, or I.V.G., a technology under development that would allow the creation of eggs or sperm from ...
AI-guided personalized brain stimulators in development to pinpoint control depression and chronic pain from Parkinson’s
Recent experiments have begun individualizing brain stimulation for depression, obsessive compulsive disorder and chronic pain. While much more research is ...
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 ...
