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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
The chompers of two-legged carnivorous dinosaurs didn’t protrude outside their jaws, a new study suggests ...
Viewpoint: How to take control back from AI and social media algorithms
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?
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
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?
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
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?
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
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
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?
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
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 to a potential date? AI takes on the online dating world
New AI-driven tools are meant to help singles cut the small talk and get on more dates. Will they change ...
‘Cellular medicine’: Siddhartha Mukherjee on ‘creating new humans’ to limit cancer and other diseases
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
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
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
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
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
You may be able to prevent or delay dementia with changes in diet and exercise, research has found. Now another ...
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
Moderna Inc. didn’t have an approved product before the pandemic hit. Now it is a household name, as the maker of ...
Physician responsibility: Why are many terminal cancer patients not told they are dying?
Unrealistic expectations fueled by direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising depicting happy cancer survivors and the pharma industry’s influence on oncologists hang over ...
The chemistry of vision: Reviving eyes from organ donors offers hope for blindness cures
Researchers have discovered a way to revive eyes from organ donors after death, an advance that opens doors to progress ...
ACL tear? One of athletes’ greatest fears can be repaired – without surgery but with biologics
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
For more than half a century, Pahatha Mellange Jayaappu has tilled the field on his modest farm in Sri Lanka’s ...
Two more HIV patients beat the virus — helping scientists researching a permanent cure
A 66-year-old man in Southern California and a woman in her 70s in Spain are the latest in a small ...
‘Smell cyborgs’ are replacing dogs that sniff out cancer or explosives
We live in a world of odors—chemical signals that contain valuable data about our health, the environment and even personal ...
‘It’s a slog’: Cure or treatment for Alzheimer’s proving elusive, and we don’t know why
We see headlines that declare a “Cure Breakthrough” and “Reversing Dementia in Mice,” but still, if you get sick, there ...
Facing human donor organ shortage, US poised to allow pig organ transplant trials
The Food and Drug Administration is devising plans to allow clinical trials testing the transplantation of pig organs into humans, ...
Should an AI chatbot robot have rights? A now-suspended Google engineer thinks so
Google suspended an engineer who contended that an artificial-intelligence chatbot the company developed had become sentient, telling him that he ...
