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Plant-to-plant communication: Trees can warn each other of impending danger. Here’s how
Real trees on our Earth can communicate and warn each other of danger — and a new study explains how ...
8 ways to help you identify social media misinformation and AI imagery
How do you know what to trust: There are some basic tools everyone should use when consuming breaking news online ...
Viewpoint: ‘Abortion tourism’ — How DeSantis and other Republicans are trying to marginalize women who seek to end pregnancies
Republicans made it harder to get abortions in red states. Now they have a punchline for trivializing the journeys people ...
Search for elusive angel shark and growing revolutionary field of bio-tracking environmental DNA
Today, with the Natural Marine Park of Cap Corse and Agriate, we can find rare sea life without having to ...
‘Beer is so old that we don’t know how old it is’: Brewing evolution from the Stone Age to the era of craft beers
Beer is so old that we don’t know how old it is. Most of the earliest known cultures brewed it, ...
For 6 percent of COVID victims, long COVID might be here for an indefinite stay
Covid-19 is now endemic, meaning the coronavirus is here to stay and health officials must pivot from treating it like a one-time emergency ...
Viewpoint: Rep. Jim Jordan claims, without evidence, that universities and government agencies are colluding with tech companies to censor right-wing views
Academics, universities and government agencies are overhauling or ending research programs designed to counter the spread of online misinformation amid ...
‘Upside’ and ‘Goodmeat’: Two cell-cultured chicken companies take different paths in long road to consumer acceptance
No one knows yet what approach to cell-cultivated meat will ultimately resonate with consumers, which probably explains why Upside and ...
Viewpoint: ‘AI has gone from a precocious toddler to blowing through barriers separating human and machine capabilities’. Is it time to worry?
Imagine if your brain got 10 times smarter every year over the past decade, and you were on pace for ...
DNA arms race? How and why China is collecting genetic data from millions of people around the world
Most of Europe was in lockdown in April 2020 when a plane arrived in the Serbian capital bearing a well-timed ...
Viewpoint: Blame Big Tobacco for helping create junk food industry
For decades, tobacco companies hooked people on cigarettes by making their products more addictive. Now, a new study suggests that tobacco ...
Viewpoint: US museums, universities and federal agencies still possess the remains of over 100,000 Indigenous Americans. It’s time to give them back
Museums, universities and federal agencies still possess the remains of 110,000 Native Americans, Native Hawaiians and Alaska Natives ...
Nocturnal farming: How climate change might force farmers to rethink their early-to-rise schedule
Rising temperatures in key agricultural regions across the United States are leading more farmers to harvest in the middle of ...
Viewpoint: Medicinal doses of psychedelics can treat PTSD, depression and other disorders. Should we legalize recreational use?
Early studies into the therapeutic benefits of psychedelics have been so promising that the Food and Drug Administration has designated ...
Pakistan case study: Illness and famine follow in wake of climate-induced weather disasters
To document one of the most widespread threats — extreme heat — The Post and CarbonPlan, a nonprofit that develops publicly ...
Viewpoint: History of eugenics — Smithsonian Museum has a troubling collection of brains from different ‘races’
On the day Mary Sara died of tuberculosis in a Seattle sanitarium, the doctor caring for the 18-year-old offered her ...
Why has there been a surge in number of young women with breast cancer?
A study published last week in JAMA Network Open showed cancers are on the rise for younger Americans under 50, ...
Viewpoint: In COVID early days, Chinese doctors in Wuhan denied widespread viral spread. That was a lie
In the first weeks of 2020, a radiologist at Xinhua Hospital in Wuhan, China, saw looming signs of trouble. He ...
While overall rate of cancer is going down, it’s on the rise in young Americans. Why?
Some of the biggest increases were seen in women and in younger people diagnosed with gastrointestinal and breast cancers ...
BA.2.86: Current vaccines do not offer protection against new globally-spreading COVID variant
A highly mutated form of the coronavirus that threatens to be the most adept yet at slipping past the body’s ...
Viewpoint: ‘My body went haywire’ — One woman’s debilitating experience with long COVID
Despite the crystal-clear science on the damage covid-19 does to our bodies, medical settings have dropped mask requirements, so patients ...
Viewpoint: Here’s why newborn genetic screening is so crucial
Taken as a whole, rare diseases are common, afflicting more than 30 million people in the United States and more ...
Viewpoint: How ‘predictive AI’ is changing healthcare for the better
The quality of predictive AI can be measured, generative AI models produce different answers ...
Viewpoint: With meat alternatives flourishing, ‘people might eventually look back on meat-eating much the way we view cannibalism and human sacrifice’
Guilt over eating animals amid our inability to give it up is powering the birth of a new industry: [Recently], ...
Viewpoint: Should there be a ban on glyphosate and other pesticides in US parks? Here’s why environmentalists and the Park Service say that would be a disaster
When last I wrote about my battle of the brush, I was losing, badly, to the invasive vines and noxious weeds ...
Allie the chatbot lover: Open-source AI programmed for innumerable constructive applications — and sex talk
From X-rated chats to cancer research, “open-source” models are challenging tech giants’ control over the AI revolution — to the ...
‘Nature’s Ozempic’? How does berberine supplement compare to weight-loss drug Wegovy?
“After seeing how cheap berberine was, I figured I didn’t have anything to lose,” said 34-year-old Savannah Crosby, who has ...
How does social media affect kids’ developing brains? US Surgeon General releases mental health advisory
Today, 95 percent of teenagers use social media, and two-thirds daily. One in 7 kids spends more than seven hours ...
