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This company adopted AI. Here’s what happened to its human workers
Companies like OpenAI and Google have unveiled new Artificial Intelligence systems with incredible capabilities ...
High-tech internet-connected precision agriculture provides myriad benefits to farmers and sustainability. How can it work better?
"Farming's come a long way, we're a little bit ahead of the straw hats and the overalls days now," [farmer ...
Why does hair turn silver with age? Discovering the root problem of graying
A team of researchers says it has identified the root cause as trapped stem cells — and that means new ...
Audio: Jennifer Doudna on how diseases can be permanently cured using CRISPR gene editing, reshaping the arc of evolution
In 2011, biochemist Jennifer Doudna helped discover the genetic editing tool CRISPR. Today CRISPR is actively deployed in clinical trials ...
At 9 months old, this girl had half her brain removed — and 15 years later, she is thriving.
People like Mora represent the upper bounds of human brain plasticity because their brains were radically altered very early in ...
Podcast: Can we ‘manipulate the body’s natural electric fields’ to treat wounds, depression, paralysis and cancer?
Scientists are looking into ways to manipulate the body's natural electrical fields to try and treat wounds, depression, paralysis, and ...
Podcast: Why modern-day animals are so much smaller than dinosaurs
Researchers think they understand how some dinosaurs grew so large. NPR's Eyder Peralta talks with Michael D'Emic, paleontologist at Adelphi ...
AIDS vaccine: Why the COVID shot was developed so quickly but one for HIV remains elusive
Since 1982, when the U.S. Centers for Disease Control first named the syndrome "AIDS," there have been years of fear ...
‘We’ve found 1-in-a-million type of cancers’: A common prenatal blood test accidentally identifies rare tumors
An expectant mother's bloodstream doesn't just contain bits of free-floating DNA associated with the fetus. It's also chock full of ...
Podcast: 200 years after the birth of father of genetics Gregor Mendel, scientists unearth his body and sequence his DNA
To commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Gregor Mendel, the father of genetics, a group of scientists decided ...
As China’s daily COVID cases soar into the millions, questions remain about the country’s vaccines. Here are the answers
China is in the midst of its first major COVID surge, and it's one of the world's largest. China rolled ...
‘We’re at war with nature’: Can the UN biodiversity convention make real progress?
Delegates from around the world are gathering in Montreal to address what United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has described ...
7 to 10 years: That’s how long it’s expected to take to develop cutting-edge male contraceptives
A growing range of pills, patches and implants became available to women. And yet, a stretchy sheath that covers the ...
Slaughter-free, climate-friendly cultured meat on the horizon
Imagine a way to produce meat without slaughtering animals. Instead of raising livestock on farms, Uma Valeti, a cardiologist, and ...
Video game therapy? Upbeat computer games boost ketamine’s power as an antidepressant
Computer games designed to boost self-esteem appear to prolong the antidepressant benefits of the mind-bending anesthetic ketamine. A recent study ...
‘Children of Omicron’: What public health threats lie ahead as COVID evolves?
Throughout the pandemic, the virus that causes COVID-19 has been evolving fast, blindsiding the world with one variant after another ...
‘So much more than cave-dwelling thugs with clubs’: Neanderthal DNA gives us a look into ancient family life
One of the things that makes us special as a species is our ability to form communities, but we humans ...
AI-powered speech-analyzing app could diagnose Parkinson’s, stroke, depression or cancer from just the sound of your voice
Voices offer lots of information. Turns out, they can even help diagnose an illness — and researchers are working on ...
Does your sweat reek? It could be protecting you from serious illnesses
Back in 2020, [microbiologist Gavin] Thomas and his colleagues found that one critter on the skin, called Staphylococcus hominis, produces an especially pungent ...
Most terminal cancer patients don’t fully grasp the severity of their prognoses. Why?
Doctors are often called upon to deliver bad news to patients, and there isn't much that's worse than a diagnosis ...
Coming down with monkeypox comes with a stigma. Here’s how to talk about the virus
As places like San Francisco and New York state declare the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency, there's a major ...
With monkeypox now an international public health emergency, what do you need to know?
The World Health Organization has declared the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency of international concern, but it's not a disease ...
Infographic: Trump-voting Republican counties suffered more than twice the death rate from COVID than Democratic ones
Even with widely available vaccines and newly effective treatments, residents of counties that went heavily for Donald Trump in the ...
Race-based medical differences: Alzheimer’s blood tests designed for white patients less accurate on blacks
Several blood tests used to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease are less accurate for African Americans than white patients, according to research ...
‘Protective devices’: Why some exposed people are unlikely to get COVID
Over the course of the pandemic, my daughter has been exposed to SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes the disease COVID-19, ...
When does brain function peak? Scans show how brains grow and shrink
The human brain starts with a bang and ends with a whimper. That's the conclusion of a project that used ...
Fall asleep with the TV on? Just one night of sleep with moderate light can can hurt your cardiovascular and metabolic health
New research suggests that one night of sleep with just a moderate amount of light may have adverse effects on ...
Some states are trying to limit residents from getting abortions or gender-affirming treatments in other jurisdictions. Is that legal?
Conservative lawmakers across the U.S. have let loose a wave of state legislation attempting to restrict access to abortions and ...
