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Can Hindus, Jews and Muslims eat cell-cultivated meat? Religions search for guidance as lab-grown food beckons
Israel’s Chief Rabbinate — a bellwether rabbinical council for religious certifications in Judaism — declared that an Israeli company’s lab-grown ...
Meet your newest coworker: From retail to medicine to marketing, AI workers will soon abound
Artificial intelligence is increasingly making its way across industries, changing jobs from retail to medicine to marketing ...
How the human brain changes over a lifetime
How does the brain age across the lifespan? New studies offer clues. Our brains are built to change over our ...
Viewpoint: Should the US House investigate COVID origins? Here’s the case for leaving that to scientists
One of the world’s most sensitive and consequential scientific questions will soon be grist for discussion among the members of ...
Anti-vaccine beliefs stoke growing cases of measles and chickenpox in the US
Growing vaccine hesitancy fuels measles, chickenpox resurgence in U.S. Anti-vaccine sentiment has increased since the pandemic, driven by politicization around ...
After years of reports of widespread violations of ‘certified organic’ rules, USDA strengthens enforcement
The USDA has a strict definition of “certified organic,” allowing the label to be used only for products that meet ...
Can mindfulness and exercise help slow aging brains? Study puts common wisdom to the test
Researchers looked at how mindfulness and exercise, apart and together, affected aging brains. The results were disappointing ...
9 out of 10 COVID deaths are in people over 65, reviving questions about what we consider to be ‘acceptable loss’
More than 300 people are still dying each day on average from covid-19, most of them 65 or older, according ...
Next generation monoclonal antibody treatments target elusive mutating COVID virus
In the evolutionary chess match between the coronavirus and humans, scientists’ next move can’t come soon enough for the millions ...
‘Critical milestone’: FDA greenlights cellular chicken — first lab-grown meat — for US market
The Food and Drug Administration on [November 16] declared a lab-grown meat product developed by a California start-up to be ...
‘A whole new class of drugs to fight malaria’: Single dose of antibody infusion protects for six months
A single dose of an antibody drug provided strong protection against malaria infections during the six-month rainy season in Mali, ...
‘Splatometer’: Here’s how scientists are trying to understand the environmental implications of the sharp drop of dead bugs on windshields
Experts say the lack of insect innards on our summer windshields is just one symptom of a broader decline in ...
First large-scale long COVID study finds nearly half of survivors experience lingering symptoms
Ask anyone who has experienced the lingering maladies of the pandemic, and they’ll tell you long covid is no figment ...
‘Healthy fat is not about the amount of fat’: Exercising improves the health of fat cells, helping them clean debris from your bloodstream
Many of us may not realize that body fat can be metabolically healthy — or the reverse — no matter ...
Long COVID can strip away a decade’s worth of exercise gains, study suggests
Long covid can rob people of health, energy, employment and joy. It may also strip away the equivalent of a ...
Viewpoint: ‘Darwinian beekeeping’ — Bees have adapted for over 100 million years. Maybe saving them from parasites could be as easy as leaving them alone
Bees have been around for about 120 million years... says Brenda Kiessling, a retired physician and an Eastern Apicultural Society ...
‘When we exercise, we’re not just doing it for ourselves’: Why going on a run today could benefit your future grandkids
Exercising now is good for you. But could it also be good for your future children and grandchildren? ...
Could artificial intelligence (AI) lead to accidental demise of humans?
It seems only a matter of time before computers become smarter than people. This is one prediction we can be ...
New study suggests covid increases risks of brain disorders
A study published recently in the journal Lancet Psychiatry showed increased risks of some brain disorders two years after infection ...
Gene editing could revive the American chestnut tree and help fight climate change — but familiar anti-biotechonology activist critics will have none of it
These trees once ruled the canopies of much of Appalachia, with billions of mature American chestnut trees that towered in ...
Is long COVID likely to be progressive or permanent?
Covid is biologically dangerous long after the initial viral infection. One of the leading hypotheses behind long covid is that ...
Repeating AIDS mistakes: Framing monkeypox as a ‘LGBTQ-only virus’ could lead to a wider spread of the disease
As HIV/AIDS surged in previous decades, the government scrambled to address the strange illness that seemed to afflict mostly men ...
Haven’t had COVID yet? You’re part of an exclusive club — but that doesn’t mean you have ‘super immunity’
There are no winners in a pandemic. That said, if you’ve made it to the summer of 2022 without yet ...
Long-awaited malaria vaccines finally reach children’s arms — but how effective are they?
As the World Health Organization announces the next step in its rollout of the world’s first authorized malaria vaccine in ...
Wuhan market COVID-19 origins theory reaffirmed in two new papers; lab leak viewed as ‘possible’ but not ‘plausible’
The coronavirus pandemic began in separate viral spillovers — at least two but perhaps as many as two dozen — ...
How COVID is upending how we normally experience the common flu
At one point last month, children were admitted to Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital with a startling range of seven ...
Many parents reluctant to get their young children vaccinated are not Republican anti-vaccine science rejectionists
More than a decade before the coronavirus pandemic, I began researching how parents decide to reject recommended vaccines for their children ...
Artificial sentience: How close are AI models to achieving consciousness?
LaMDA, short for Language Model for Dialogue Applications, is Google’s system for building chatbots based on its most advanced large ...
