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Viewpoint: How US abortion pill case could could upend FDA approval of vaccines and drugs
The Supreme Court faces a decision that lays bare the threat to facts, evidence and the health of America’s patients ...
How a bad facial AI recognition match led to a false arrest
Randal Quran Reid was jailed after he was mistaken for a Louisiana suspect during a traffic stop near Atlanta ...
Psychedelics pioneer Roland Griffiths learns how to die
As the founding director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research, Dr. Roland Griffiths has been a ...
How do plants respond to stress? Noisily
Stressed plants make audible sounds that can be heard many feet away, and the type of sound corresponds with the ...
Viewpoint: How the COVID lab leak theory spread like the virus itself
Covid had just reached American shores on Feb. 9, 2020, when Newt Gingrich invited Anthony Fauci, the longtime head of ...
Dogs of Chernobyl: What exposure to chronic, low-level radiation does to a species
Dogs roam the ghost town of Pripyat within the Chernobyl exclusion zone in Ukraine. Scientists have identified genetically distinct populations ...
Viewpoint: Human gene editing research prioritizes speed, profit, and breakthroughs. Is that in sync with fundamental ethical values?
He Jiankui, the Chinese scientist who announced in 2018 that he had edited the DNA of embryos to make them ...
Befuddled Congress struggles to understand (let alone regulate) AI
In recent weeks, two members of Congress have sounded the alarm over the dangers of artificial intelligence ...
Large-scale solution to climate change? Living Carbon plants first genetically modified trees in US forest
Living Carbon’s poplars start their lives in a lab in Hayward, Calif. There, biologists tinker with how the trees conduct ...
Viewpoint: Capitalism and technology — Whose interests does AI serve, and what unrecognized dangers about data privacy are around the corner?
A.I. researchers obsess over the question of “alignment.” How do we get machine learning algorithms to do what we want ...
Climate change ripple effect: Rising temperatures allow mosquitoes to spread across Africa, bringing malaria with them
Mosquitoes that transmit malaria have moved away from the Equator by about three miles per year over the past century, ...
Million-dollar gene therapies offer salvation for many patients but pose financial challenges for government-funded health care systems
A wave of transformative but hugely expensive treatments is challenging the budgets of health systems in wealthy nations. Now countries ...
Hormone therapy for menopause: Here’s an updated primer
The biggest takeaway from the last two decades of research is that age matters: For women who go through early ...
Viewpoint: ‘Going organic isn’t cheap’ — What does it cost farmers to switch from conventional farming to organic?
Farmland has to stop using industrial-strength pesticides and fertilizers on land for three years before it can meet the U.S ...
Challenging the belief that ‘eating soy-based foods can increase the risk of breast cancer’ and 9 other nutrition myths
Some false ideas about nutrition seem to linger in American culture like a terrible song stuck in your head. So ...
Will an HIV vaccine ever be developed? Failure of Janssen Pharmaceuticals’ global testing raises doubts
The only vaccine against H.I.V. still being tested in late-stage clinical trials has proved ineffective, its manufacturer announced on [January ...
Brain implants help many paralyzed people move again — but progress is slow
Brain implants have begun to restore functions, but advances are slow. But achieving full-body restoration of movement, as Elon Musk ...
Viewpoint: 7.4 quadrillion calorie shortfall by 2050 — Why we need to eat less meat and stop wasting food
If we are serious about cleaning up the mess we’re making for less influential species, there are four things individuals ...
Post-Roe debate: New York Times addresses ‘when human life begins’
In the months since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, it has become unavoidable, as activists and politicians try to ...
CRISPR gene editing could help cure as many as 7,000 diseases. What’s holding things up?
The parents of a 2-year-old girl write that their daughter “could die within the next year” because a genetic mutation ...
Minding the climate: How studying the brain can help us solve the world’s environmental crisis
Dr. Ann-Christine Duhaime is a pediatric neurosurgeon at the Massachusetts General Hospital. She looks at brains. Over the course of ...
Ants: The world’s most successful species?
Given their centrality to life on the planet, not to mention their teeming populations, shouldn’t we think more highly of ...
Do trees ‘talk’ to each other through their roots? It’s become a highly-contested belief
Few recent scientific discoveries have captured the public’s imagination quite like the wood-wide web — a wispy network of fungal ...
COVID research transparency: Lab loopholes can lead to unnecessarily risky experiments. What can be done?
Scientists at Boston University came under fire this week for an experiment in which they tinkered with the Covid virus ...
The Song of the Cell: Oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee’s new book explains the mystery of how the body’s smallest unit affects everything from IVF to COVID
“The Song of the Cell,” the latest work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning oncologist, recounts our evolving understanding of the body’s ...
A cancer vaccine to protect healthy but high risk people? Researchers ‘brimming with optimism’ in preventative shot
It seems like an almost impossible dream — a cancer vaccine that would protect healthy people at high risk of ...
Future fruit: Meet the farmers painstakingly developing colorful and tastier new apple varieties
Imagine reaching up to a tree branch and plucking an apple that’s unusually tall and narrow — a variety called ...
How the coronavirus pandemic flipped uber-liberal Marin County from vaccine rejectionist hub to shaming COVID vaccine skeptics
In the pandemic age, getting a Covid-19 shot has become the defining “vax” or “anti-vax” litmus test, and on that ...
