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Reduce synthetic fertilizers and improve yields? The microbiome revolution comes to agriculture
If manipulated correctly, they can help us cure cancer, understand how we can adapt to rising temperatures, play a role ...
Can OpenAI prevent vaccine conspiracy theories from bubbling up in ChatGPT conversations?
The chatbot has some guardrails in place to curb disinformation, but it’ll be a game of constant catch-up ...
Viewpoint: What role can and should genetics play in understanding which people might become violent and commit crimes — and putting them in jail?
Using biology to understand criminal behavior has long been controversial. Top criminology programs are pursuing it anyway ...
Viewpoint: GOP Congressmen continue to question safety of the COVID vaccine, raising concerns of feeding vaccine hesitancy
Vaccine skeptics run the gamut from individuals with scientific credentials who nevertheless oppose public health policies from a libertarian perspective ...
Viewpoint: ‘We believe we have developed the first organism that can’t be infected by any known virus’
Researchers at George Chuch’s Harvard lab have genetically engineered a bacteria, E. coli, to be totally immune to viruses ...
Mushroom hallucinogen sales booming despite reports of serious side effects
When a hemp dispensary in this Florida city started to stock edibles with certain mushroom extracts last year, state regulators ...
Viewpoint: Why do some global cancer research agencies claim that using a cell phone (like drinking Diet Coke with aspartame) poses a cancer risk?
Although some people argue that cell phone usage contributes to rising brain cancer rates, analysis of the data shows no ...
Who will have the most progressive crop gene editing regulations: England or the European Union?
When UK Ministers first unveiled plans to diverge from restrictive EU rules classifying gene edited products as GMOs, it was ...
Viewpoint: ‘Why farmers are essential partners in the fight against climate change’
The “Farm to Fork” strategy is an important part of the EU Green Deal. As a farmer, I endorse the ...
Immorality, lack of empathy, anti-social behavior: The evolution of psychopathological tendencies
By one estimate, as many as 20% of business leaders have “clinically relevant levels” of psychopathic tendencies ...
Revelations from the embryo: Glimpses into the prenatal period
Two weeks after sperm fertilizes egg is a critical time in human prenatal development. Intricate waves of signals stamp cells ...
Should I fire my therapist? AI revolution is coming to psychology
Conversational chatbots have risen in popularity recently, but when it comes to mental health, companies and users must be cautious ...
Viewpoint: ‘Organic is good’? — Greenwashing propagated by environmental advocacy group lobbyists and marketing-savvy green industry
Recent draft legislation on its way to the European Parliament and Council commonly known as the Greenwashing Directive (officially the Green Claims Directive) plans ...
If life legally begins at conception, can fetuses be employees?
How could a fetus be a person if abortion is legal? But now that abortion rights are no longer federally ...
Viewpoint: Could oil and gas companies transform themselves from carbon-polluting villains to climate healers?
Oil and gas companies are seen as climate villains. Truth is, we’ll need their expertise to make green hydrogen a ...
Balding throughout the ages
Balding is really common, affecting more than 50% of men. It’s also physically inconsequential (bald men live just as long ...
It’s been nearly 60 years since the first known transgender surgery took place in the United States. Here’s what’s happened since.
Enforcement of binary gender norms has led to unwanted medical interventions on intersex and cisgender children ...
How Africa evolved as the crucible for early human transition from forest-inhabiting fruit-eaters to savanna-dwelling hunters
That humans originated in Africa is widely accepted. But it’s not generally recognised how unique features of Africa’s ecology were ...
Video: Here’s how early life on Earth could have originated elsewhere in the cosmos
The incredible survival skills of certain forms of bacteria and archaea, including the ability to stay dormant...in space ...
Biopharming can help pioneer new treatments but cumbersome, outdated regulations block innovation
Obtaining medicines from plants is not new. Aspirin was first isolated from the bark of the willow tree in the ...
Viewpoint: Existential ethics — Pondering the extinction of the global human population
Why would it be so bad if our species came to an end? It is a question that reveals our ...
Why did Ellie in the Last of Us not succumb to Cordy, the zombie virus? Stem cells might explain it, and that could yield real-life vaccines
It’s unsettling to watch The Last of Us, in which parasitic fungi turn humanity into flesh-eating zombies, just as the ...
Viewpoint: Why health care based on race is so problematic
Choosing a medical treatment based on patient traits historically used to define races is fundamentally flawed, because race in the ...
Viewpoint: How Environmental—Social—Governance (ESG) screens can be manipulated to promote misleading science and damage sustainability efforts
While the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investor point system has had a bit of a rough time over the ...
Genomic scars: How centuries of surviving antisemitism has shaped Jewish genetics
Between election news and the ever-earlier encroachment of Christmas, an important November anniversary of a horrific event goes mostly unnoticed: ...
How might we adapt to fast-changing global temperatures? 2-million year old ‘environmental DNA’ offers clues
The reconstruction of a once-living landscape in northern Greenland from 2 million years ago, deduced from bits of DNA bound ...
Viewpoint: ‘Health impact of chemicals doubled in last 5 years’? Media misreporting flawed studies misleads the public
“Plastics and pesticides: Health impacts of synthetic chemicals in US products doubled in last 5 years, study finds," a July ...
