June 22, 2026
(Mother Jones) – The new wave of Silicon Valley–backed gene-editing startups is straight out of “Brave New World.” And this notion of creating superbabies to stop the rise of something akin to Skynet from The Terminator is capturing the fancy—and … Read More
June 22, 2026
(Pew Research) – More Americans are using chatbots, and some are adopting AI summaries and smart speakers. But views about AI and how fast it’s advancing tilt negative – even for younger adults Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a … Read More
June 22, 2026
(The Atlantic) – A weight-loss medication eased Serena Williams’s comeback. Experts can’t agree on whether that counts as doping. Before Serena Williams picked up her racket at London’s Andy Murray Arena last week, two questions hung over her return to … Read More
June 22, 2026
(Wired) – A London clinic owner has claimed he is treating people with stage 4 cancer by sealing them into a plastic bag while they’re naked from the neck down and gassing them with chlorine dioxide. A clinic in London, … Read More
June 22, 2026
(The Atlantic) – This is health care’s Uber moment. “I get a little bit queasy about how some of these results might be used,” Adam Rodman, a lead author on the study, said at a press conference just ahead of … Read More
June 22, 2026
(Ars Technica) – The Food and Drug Administration this week cleared a second carcass-feasting fly species for use in maggot wound therapy, according to an announcement from Cuprina Holdings, a Singapore-based company that has dubbed its new therapeutic larvae MediFly … Read More
June 22, 2026
(ABC News) – An artificial intelligence (AI) model is helping some patients get diagnoses after years of unexplained illness, according to a new study. Researchers from OpenAI and Boston Children’s Hospital took the existing genetic data of 18 pediatric patients … Read More
June 22, 2026
(CNBC) – Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis called for a U.S.-led coalition to shape rules and standards around artificial intelligence at a meeting with tech leaders and heads of state, including President Donald Trump, CNBC … Read More
June 22, 2026
(Le Monde) – A model derived from Grok, the ‘Grok Gov Model,’ is being used in a US military AI-assisted targeting program, according to the Pentagon. Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence tool Grok was used in strikes against Iran, the United … Read More
June 19, 2026
(NYT) – The United States is reliant on unpaid family caregivers, and millions of adult children are caring for parents who didn’t really care for them. In the early 2010s, a social-work researcher named Jooyoung Kong, now a professor at … Read More
June 19, 2026
(Undark) – Consumer devices that monitor heart rate, glucose, and sleep cycles need better validation to be clinically useful. In the 21st century, wearable monitoring has followed two paths: one that includes medical-grade devices, which are designed for clinical use; … Read More
June 19, 2026
(Nature) – Influencers and ultra-rich people looking to extend their lifespan are trading tips and tricks on how to eke out extra years. Nir Barzilai, president of the Academy of Geroscience and a genetics researcher at Albert Einstein College of … Read More
June 19, 2026
(NYT) – The oldest known cases, discovered among hunter-gatherers in Siberian graves, contradict the theory that the disease once was mild. In ancient Siberian graves, scientists have discovered the oldest traces of one of humanity’s greatest enemies. Examining skeletons of … Read More
June 19, 2026
(NYT) – Surveys of over half a million Americans from the last decade and a half revealed an uncomfortable truth: Despite its advantages, remote work has significantly deepened Americans’ isolation and distress. Our estimates, published in Science this month with … Read More
June 19, 2026
(NBC News) – Tiffany Score and Steven Mills reached a custody agreement with the little girl’s biological parents, court records show. In a court filing Friday, Mara Hatfield, Score and Mills’ attorney, wrote that her clients and Patient 004 had … Read More
June 19, 2026
(The Atlantic) – It’s sin. For the past few years, I’ve been troubled by a word, and that word is sin. I keep reaching for it, because it seems to be the only term strong enough to describe the new … Read More
June 18, 2026
(AFP via Yahoo!) – Rising temperatures caused by human-driven global warming have given mosquitoes — and the many pathogens they spread — “an increasingly vast playing field,” she warned. According to the World Health Organization, 80 percent of the world’s … Read More
June 18, 2026
(Washington Post) – A new study pinpoints how many minutes per week of strength training might help people avoid death from conditions including heart attacks and Alzheimer’s. The links were especially strong for cardiovascular disease and neurological conditions. The data … Read More
June 18, 2026
(Washington Post) – A new study finds the vaccine was linked with nearly 40 percent lower risk of events like heart attack and stroke The coronavirus vaccine reduced the risk of major cardiovascular events linked to covid-19 — strokes, heart … Read More
June 18, 2026
(New Scientist) – IVF could be done inside the body using a revolutionary technique that reduces the invasiveness of the traditional fertility treatment Embryos have been formed from sperm that have been made magnetic to allow remote guidance towards an … Read More
June 18, 2026
(Futurism) – Humanoid robots are, by definition, pretty extreme. Requiring top-of-the-line batteries, a high-degree of mobility, and a very accurate visual interface, there are few more instantly-recognizable feats of human engineering. It makes sense, then, that one of their main … Read More
June 18, 2026
(The Dispatch) – Since doctors told Sasse six months ago that he had three to four months left to live due to Stage IV metastatic pancreatic cancer, the former senator and college president has become something of an expert on … Read More
June 18, 2026
(Wired) – Devices that monitor seniors for safety are appealing to worried loved ones and underresourced home care agencies. My dad was initially resistant to Sensi because of his own privacy concerns—who can blame him?—but after a little cajoling from … Read More
June 17, 2026
(404 Media) – A tiny snippet of user-generated text as short as 13 words long is often enough to manipulate the AI agents that power tools like ChatGPT and Google’s AI search, new research shows. The study suggests that it … Read More
June 17, 2026
(Nature) – The device has helped a man with motor neuron disease communicate and control his computer for nearly two years. The brain–computer interface (BCI) has given 48-year-old study participant Casey Harrell, who was diagnosed with a type of motor … Read More
