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Google and search engines opened the door to online misinformation. AI could help address that.
The democratic nature of digital media initially inspired utopian hopes. It promised to expose the blind spots of cultural elites, ...
Peanut allergies have plunged 43% in 8 years. Here’s how it was accomplished
Researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) compared peanut and food allergies before pediatric guidelines about feeding changed in 2017 and after, ...
Viewpoint: Convoluted SCOTUS decision upholds Texas law requiring pornography websites to verify users’ ages, but confusions abound
The Supreme Court upheld a Texas anti-pornography law...that is nearly identical to a federal law it struck down more than two decades ...
Kennedy vs. Kennedy: The FDA remains silent on Ractopamine, America’s most controversial pork additive
For over a decade, a group of food safety, environmental, and animal welfare nonprofits has petitioned the US Food and ...
Why the right is rushing to ban lab grown meat that could save tens of billions of animals every year
Unlike plant-based meat substitutes like the Impossible Burger, lab-grown meat consists of actual animal tissue, but made without slaughtering animals ...
Viewpoint: What might be the impact of ultra-processed food labels?
After decades of lobbying, the US government has finally started taking action to warn consumers about the hazards of ultra-processed ...
Viewpoint: ‘Broligarchs’ and the emerging age of tech authoritarianism
There’s a dominant narrative in the media about why tech billionaires are sucking up to Donald Trump: Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos, all ...
Podcast: Banned in Europe? Here’s how and why the US is more relaxed in its approvals of chemical additives in food
“How is America allowed to feed us certain products that are harmful and banned in other countries?” [Vox reader, Sommer] ...
Scientific fraud kills people — but it’s not illegal. What should be done?
[O]ne of the cases was when a woman delivered a stillborn baby at her home about six or seven months ...
Making CRISPR treatments work for everyone: Genetic data that underpins key gene editing system has a big diversity problem
There’s a significant impediment to maximizing CRISPR’s potential for developing novel therapies: the lack of diversity in genetics research ...
Viewpoint: Unusual bedfellows—Sen John Fetterman offers support for Alabama’s and Florida’s ban on cell-based lab-grown beef while fellow Democrats slam Republicans who-back such measures as fear-promoting
Last week, Florida became the first US state to ban the production and sale of lab-grown, or “cell-cultivated” meat. “Take ...
Want to sell cell-based meat in Tennessee? You’ll face a million-dollar fine in yet another chapter in the ‘long-running fight over the future of protein’
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis declared his support for banning a food product that barely exists — cell-cultivated or “lab-grown” meat — ...
Genetic diversity squeeze: Camembert is on the verge of extinction. Here’s what can be done to rescue ‘endangered cheeses’
Each hunk of Camembert or smear of brie is an ecosystem, an assortment of fungi and bacteria that turn milk ...
‘Gastronomic dreams of astronomical proportions’: Collaboration between government and companies key to producing cell-based meat at scale
Creating a technological (and delicious) wonder is one thing; scaling it to feed billions of people is another ...
Tiger steaks and lion burgers? Cell-cultivated exotic meats open new market possibilities but raise controversial questions
Which animals we find acceptable to eat vary from person to person, according to our values, palates, and upbringing ...
Two malaria vaccines are now being distributed in Africa. Here are the hurdles plaguing the lifesaving drugs
Malaria kills half a million people a year in Africa. We can prevent that — if we act fast enough ...
Viewpoint: Yes, we have a national mental health crisis. No, it’s not a significant driver of gun violence as Republicans claim
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott wants more mental health resources after the Allen mall mass shooting. It’s not a real solution ...
Viewpoint: ‘The Netherlands’ hyper-efficient food system is both a triumph and a cautionary tale’
Going back nearly 80 years, anxieties over food security have driven the tiny Netherlands to become a global leader in agriculture despite ...
‘No conservation concern with honey bees’: Xerces Society debunks claims that honey bees threatened but raises extinction concerns about some wild species
Around 2006, beekeepers started reporting huge losses of honey bee colonies. “That rang alarm bells,” said James Cane, a bee ...
The air in our homes is making us sick. Here’s what we can do about it
The technology and the human knowledge necessary to improve indoor air exist. But despite decades’ worth of science linking dirty ...
Inside America’s STI crisis: 40% of pregnant mothers with syphilis lose their child, and the numbers are growing exponentially
Across the board, sexually transmitted infections are on a “shocking” upward trajectory, according to public health experts. Preliminary data from ...
This ‘morning-after pill’ can prevent sexually transmitted infections. Why aren’t more doctors prescribing it?
Years after it was first proven to work, a new tool for preventing sexually transmitted infections (STIs) is on the ...
How cultured seafood can transition from ‘technological delicacy’ into a sustainable protein source
Startups like BlueNalu and Wildtype have their sights set on first cracking into the high-end sushi market, with hopes of ...
Zimbabwe has just 19 psychiatrists for 15 million people. Here’s how they’re transforming mental health care — and what the US could learn from this paradigm
When psychiatry and other forms of professional mental health care are not accessible, people suffer in silence or turn to ...
Viewpoint: AI is getting smarter every day. Here’s why that might not be a good thing
AI gets smarter, more capable, and more world-transforming every day. Here’s why that might not be a good thing ...
‘Hybrid meat’: Will consumers embrace food made of both cultivated meat and plant-based protein?
In much the same way that hybrid vehicles acted as a bridge between the electric vehicle experimentation of the 1970s ...
Viewpoint: ‘Cattle laundering’ — Is the beef industry deforesting the Amazon?
On paper, the Brazilian Amazon is one of the most protected ecosystems on the planet. There are thousands of protected areas, in ...
Allergy epidemic: Up to 10% of children have food intolerances. Where did they come from?
Food allergies are becoming increasingly common, in children and in adults. Yet it’s surprisingly difficult to get a handle on ...
