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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 ...
Are ‘superdodgers’ real? Is COVID seasonal? We’re finally making progress on understanding 7 of the biggest COVID mysteries
When the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a global pandemic in March 2020, nearly everything about the novel coronavirus was ...
Medical marijuana for animals? Veterinarians test treating pets and zoo animals with CBD and THC
Many people and their doctors have embraced medical marijuana for health ills, treating pets and zoo animals with CBD and ...
‘There is no sound I don’t like’ — In gene editing breakthrough, Lilly’s 30-day gene therapy restores hearing of 11-year old boy, with more deafness treatments on the way
The genetic treatment targeted a particular kind of congenital deafness and will soon be tried in children who are younger ...
AI tools are already supercharging online harassment and hate campaigns. Can they be stopped?
A glimpse at how nefarious internet users could employ sophisticated AI tools to supercharge online harassment and hate campaigns ...
Sperm donation is no longer anonymous. Where do we go from here?
Recent findings in behavioral science show the role of genetics in shaping certain individual characteristics ...
Is biological age testing useful or overrated?
New tests promise to tell you if you have the cells of a 30-year-old or a 60-year-old. Here’s what to ...
Past and present intertwine: Traumatic memories spark brain area involved in introspection and daydreaming
Traumatic memories appeared to engage a different area of the brain — the posterior cingulate cortex or P.C.C ...
Monsanto’s lingering shadow: Bayer grapples with growing Roundup legal costs
Three years after Bayer agreed to pay $10 billion to settle claims that its weedkiller, Roundup, caused cancer, juries continue ...
Extending dog lifespans? Next wave of longevity drugs aim to add years to pet lives
Scientists have been chasing after drugs that might stave off this heartbreak by extending the lives of our canine companions ...
‘Race is not a biological risk factor’: American Heart Association reassesses use of race in calculating risk of heart attacks and strokes
The cardiac-risk algorithm is an acknowledgment that, unlike sex or age, race identification in and of itself isn't a biological ...
Get headaches from red wine? Here’s the culprit
Is it sulfites, tannins or another culprit? Here’s what the research says about the migraines some people get with a ...
Almost all supplements are useless, experts say. Here’s a few that offer some benefits
The U.S. dietary supplement industry has exploded in the last 30 years, growing from about 4,000 products in 1994 to ...
The serotonin effect: Here’s an intriguing explanation for the mystery of long COVID
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania suggest that serotonin reduction is triggered by remnants of the virus lingering in the ...
Does same-sex bonding in animals provide insight into sexual orientation in humans?
Apes branched off from other primates about 25 million years ago and evolved a much higher rate of same-sex sexual ...
Ocean-bound fish farms are increasingly unsustainable. Land-based salmon farms can address environmental challenges
Salmon is the second-most-popular seafood in the United States, where the average American consumes more than three pounds a year ...
These beekeepers don’t want you to start your own honeybee hives. Here’s why
The craze for honey bees now presents a genuine ecological challenge. Not just in Slovenia, but around the world ...
Hot-weather cherries? Drought-resistant melons? Here are 8 new climate-hardy fruits and veggies on the horizon
Recent floods left more than a third of California’s table grapes rotting on the vine. Too much sunlight is burning apple crops ...
Surprising consequence of dinosaur extinction: Helping flowers become a dominant form of plant life
When a mountain-size slab of space rock rammed into the Yucatán Peninsula 66 million years ago, the fallout was apocalyptic. Tsunamis washed away coastlines, ...
FDA finally admits that active ingredient in some DayQuil and Sudafed decongestants isn’t effective. How many other commonly-used drugs don’t work?
Nearly two decades ago, several pharmacists started calling into the University of Florida Drug Information and Pharmacy Resource Center hotline ...
Viewpoint: Antidepressants and obesity medications work — but we don’t know why. Here’s why that’s a problem
We like to think we understand the drugs we take, especially after rigorous trials have proved their efficacy and safety ...
