With concerns about the accuracy of artificial intelligence increasing, calls for regulating AI are escalating

With increasing concerns about artificial intelligence accuracy, calls for regulating AI are escalating

Bart Ziegler | Wall Street Journal | 
As artificial intelligence becomes a more integral part of our lives, there are increasing concerns about its accuracy and fairness ...
Will robots with AI ever be accorded legal rights?

Will AI robots ever be accorded legal rights?

Daniel Akst | Wall Street Journal | 
[T]he robot invasion is already well under way, and the question of rights for these soon-to-be-ubiquitous artificial forms of intelligence ...
Bats rarely get viruses and cancer, and live extraordinarily long lives. Can that help guide human care?

Bats rarely get viruses or cancer, and live extraordinarily long lives. Can that help guide human care?

Betsy McKay | Wall Street Journal | 
While the Covid-19 pandemic exposed health risks from bats, it has also made finding out how they crush viral infections ...
Longevity seekers rethink their use of metformin to fight aging

Longevity seekers have second thoughts on metformin to fight aging

Alex Janin | Wall Street Journal | 
An antiaging crowd latched onto the diabetes drug metformin hoping it would extend their lifespan. Studies give conflicting results ...
Oxxempic competitor: New weight-loss drug expected to get FDA approval in the coming months could poised to become the latest hot weight-loss drug

Ozempic competitor: New weight-loss drug expected to get FDA approval in coming months could be even more powerful than Wegovy

Peter Loftus | Wall Street Journal | 
Eli Lilly’s Mounjaro could outpace Ozempic as the most powerful treatment on the market. To develop it, the drug company ...
Jurassic Park and other pop-culture depictions got the gaping maw of Tyrannosaurus rex wrong: The dinosaur had lips that covered its long, serrated teeth, new study suggests

Jurassic Park and other pop-culture depictions got the gaping maw of Tyrannosaurus rex wrong: The dinosaur had lips that covered its long, serrated teeth

Aylin Woodward | Wall Street Journal | 
The chompers of two-legged carnivorous dinosaurs didn’t protrude outside their jaws, a new study suggests ...
Viewpoint: We need to take control back from AI and algorithms

Viewpoint: How to take control back from AI and social media algorithms

Danny Lewis | Wall Street Journal | 
Behavioral scientist Gerd Gigerenzer has spent decades studying how people make choices. Here’s why he thinks too many of us ...
Sea moss is the latest ‘it’ ingredient in supplements and beauty products. What is it, and does it have any benefits?

Sea moss is the latest ‘it’ ingredient in supplements and beauty products. What is it, and does it have any benefits?

Rina Raphael | Wall Street Journal | 
The latest “it” ingredient is sea moss—a type of red algae that has become a viral phenomenon. It is being ...
Mood-logging earbuds? Fatigue-tracking hats? Brain-reading neurotechnology is on the horizon

Mood-logging earbuds? Fatigue-tracking hats? Brain-reading neurotechnology is on the horizon

Christine Rosen | Wall Street Journal | 
Earbuds measure the mood of office workers, and hard hats track fatigue in truckers. Neurotechnology aims to do more—much more ...
How would US health and government officials have handled COVID if we knew then what we know now?

How would US health and government officials have handled COVID if we knew then what we know now?

Betsy Morris | Wall Street Journal | 
In March 2020, the virus held many mysteries. Some early assumptions didn’t hold up, while other key findings wouldn’t come ...
The science of mental acuity: Why some people defy aging

The science of mental acuity: Why some people defy aging

Allysia Finley | Wall Street Journal | 
There’s something to the adage that age is only a number. Scientists increasingly are distinguishing between chronological and biological age ...
Unregulated peptides are the latest weight loss and energy boosting fad. What's the science?

Unregulated peptides are the latest weight loss and energy-boosting fad. What’s the science?

Sara O'Brien | Wall Street Journal | 
As influencers share stories of physiological transformations, more people are seeking out experimental treatments: ‘If I can be a superhero ...
Solving decades-old cold cases: DNA evidence links french horn pioneer to at least three unsolved sexual assaults

Solving decades-old cold cases: DNA evidence links french horn pioneer to at least three unsolved sexual assaults

Dan Frosch | Wall Street Journal | 
Investigators say DNA and genetic genealogy research pointed to Elliott Higgins, who died in 2014, as the suspect in three ...
‘The level of infrastructure is mind-boggling’: Laser mapping reveals sprawling Mayan ruins in Guatemala dating back 2,000 years

‘The level of infrastructure is mind-boggling’: Laser mapping reveals sprawling Mayan ruins in Guatemala dating back 2,000 years

Aylin Woodward | Wall Street Journal | 
Vast Maya kingdom is revealed in Guatemalan jungle: Archaeologists identify a sprawling network of ancient ruins using laser mapping technology ...
Viewpoint: Did health officials bungle by embracing mRNA vaccines at the expense of J&J’s single shot?

Viewpoint: Did health officials bungle by embracing mRNA vaccines at the expense of J&J’s single shot?

Allysia Finley | Wall Street Journal | 
How many times have public-health experts told us that Covid isn’t like the flu? Suddenly that’s changed. The Food and ...
FDA pauses studies of experimental drugs more often than it used to, Wall Street Journal review found

FDA pauses studies of experimental drugs more often than it used to, Wall Street Journal review found

Liz Whyte | Wall Street Journal | 
The Food and Drug Administration is pressing pause on drug-company testing of experimental medicines more often, a side effect of ...
What should you say? AI takes on the online dating world

What should you say to a potential date? AI takes on the online dating world

Sara O'Brien | Wall Street Journal | 
New AI-driven tools are meant to help singles cut the small talk and get on more dates. Will they change ...
The cancer physician and author explains why breakthroughs are leading to the creation of ‘new humans’

‘Cellular medicine’: Siddhartha Mukherjee on ‘creating new humans’ to limit cancer and other diseases

Alex Ossola | Wall Street Journal | 
The cancer physician and author explains why breakthroughs are leading to the creation of ‘new humans’ ...
Want to buy a 76-million year old T-rex skull as an art object for your living room? Here’s how

Want to buy a 76-million year old T-rex skull as an art object for your living room? Here’s how

Wall Street Journal | 
Maximus Rex needs a home. What Sotheby’s calls one of the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skulls ever discovered goes on ...
Agrivoltaics: With farm land scarce, solar panels can work in tandem with agriculture

Agrivoltaics: With farm land scarce, solar panels can work in tandem with agriculture

Kirk Maltais | Wall Street Journal | 
Farmers installing solar panels on their land traditionally have kept their paneled acres separate from those containing their crops. But this ...
Winning streak: After losing first 3 glyphosate-cancer cases, here's how Bayer has convinced juries in 5 recent cases that the weedkiller is not harmful to humans

Winning streak: After losing first 3 glyphosate-cancer cases, here’s how Bayer has convinced juries in 5 recent cases that the weedkiller is not harmful to humans

Patrick Thomas | Wall Street Journal | 
Bayer is on a winning streak as it battles the remaining cases targeting its Roundup weedkiller, a change after several ...
‘Uniquely helpless’: ‘Growing Up Human’ discusses why our species has such an extraordinarily long childhood

‘Uniquely helpless’: ‘Growing Up Human’ discusses why our species has such an extraordinarily long childhood

David Barash | Wall Street Journal | 
Despite all the advice books written for parents about infancy and childhood, there have been surprisingly few treatments of childhood ...
‘Brain training’ video games help elderly people resist age-related mental deterioration

‘Brain training’ video games help elderly people resist age-related mental deterioration

Betsy Morris | Wall Street Journal | 
You may be able to prevent or delay dementia with changes in diet and exercise, research has found. Now another ...
Covid-19 vaccine creator Moderna

When will we see a combined annual shot for flu and COVID? Moderna CEO talks about dual shot timeline and research on personalized cancer vaccine

Jonathan Rockoff | Wall Street Journal | 
Moderna Inc. didn’t have an approved product before the pandemic hit. Now it is a household name, as the maker of ...
cancer patient counseling

Physician responsibility: Why are many terminal cancer patients not told they are dying?

Monica Soni | Wall Street Journal | 
Unrealistic expectations fueled by direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising depicting happy cancer survivors and the pharma industry’s influence on oncologists hang over ...
Scientific advancements helping blind eyes

The chemistry of vision: Reviving eyes from organ donors offers hope for blindness cures

Ron Winslow | Wall Street Journal | 
Researchers have discovered a way to revive eyes from organ donors after death, an advance that opens doors to progress ...
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ACL tear? One of athletes’ greatest fears can be repaired – without surgery but with biologics

Aylin Woodward | Wall Street Journal | 
Treatment for a torn ACL typically involves surgically reconstructing the ligament with harvested tissue. Moving beyond reconstruction toward restoration, or ...
With chemical fertilizer supply still disrupted, Sri Lankan farmers struggle to feed their families

With chemical fertilizer supply still disrupted, Sri Lankan farmers struggle to feed their families

Philip Wen, Shan Li | Wall Street Journal | 
For more than half a century, Pahatha Mellange Jayaappu has tilled the field on his modest farm in Sri Lanka’s ...
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