November 5, 2025
(KFF Health News) – When there’s an outbreak of a vaccine-preventable disease, state health officials typically take certain steps to alert residents and issue public updates about the growing threat. That’s standard practice, public health and infectious disease experts told … Read More
November 5, 2025
(The Atlantic) – The decline in drinking coincides with a decline in social activity more broadly. A variety of causes have been blamed for this trend toward isolation, phones chief among them. Maybe the phone theory is correct, and maybe … Read More
November 5, 2025
(Wired) – By combining LED technology and nanomaterials, researchers have created a therapy that eliminates cancer cells using localized heat without damaging healthy tissue. In the fight against cancer, an important field of research is the search for safe alternatives … Read More
November 4, 2025
(Wired) – Nitazenes, a class of synthetic drugs 40 times more potent than fentanyl, are steadily becoming more common on both sides of the Atlantic. US and European authorities are battling a new enemy in the war against opioids. Nitazenes … Read More
November 4, 2025
(Wired) – OpenAI has committed to buying billions of dollars worth of compute from AWS—the latest in a string of major deals brokered by the AI startup. OpenAI has signed a multi-year deal with Amazon to buy $38 billion worth … Read More
November 4, 2025
(WSJ) – George Tidmarsh, who resigned Sunday, is accused in a lawsuit of seeking a bribe and defaming a drug A Food and Drug Administration official who resigned on Sunday was sued by a Canadian pharmaceutical company, which accused him … Read More
November 4, 2025
(Quanta Magazine) – If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities? In particular, researchers have been exploring the extent to which language models can reason about language itself. … Read More
November 4, 2025
(AP via MSN) – There was an explosion early Saturday at Harvard Medical School that appears to have been intentional, but no one was injured, authorities said. A university police officer who responded to a fire alarm tried to stop … Read More
November 3, 2025
(New York Times) – MaryBeth Lewis’s desire to be a new mom again, at 65 years old, led to a custody battle like no other. When MaryBeth arrived at the maternity ward, she found her surrogate in a recovery room, … Read More
November 3, 2025
(New York Times) – Online harassers are generating images and sounds that simulate their victims in violent situations. There was the picture of herself hanging from a noose, dead. And another of herself ablaze, screaming. The posts were part of … Read More
November 3, 2025
(Nature) – In a world first, a bespoke gene-editing therapy benefited one child. Now researchers plan to launch a clinical trial of the approach. Late last year, dozens of researchers spanning thousands of miles banded together in a race to … Read More
November 3, 2025
(WSJ) – A new sporting competition is enticing athletes to openly use performance-enhancing drugs and break records with million-dollar paychecks. Is it a grotesque spectacle or pushing the boundaries of human achievement? With investors that include venture capitalist Peter Thiel … Read More
November 3, 2025
(WSJ) – It was so much easier to have a conversation with a chatbot than a human being. But the more I talked to AI, the less I talked to everybody else. Talking to an AI every day satisfied my … Read More
October 31, 2025
(New York Times) – The lawsuit follows claims by President Trump that linked acetaminophen taken by pregnant women to autism, a connection that is unproven. The Texas lawsuit claims that the companies knowingly withheld evidence from consumers about Tylenol’s links … Read More
October 31, 2025
(Knowable Magazine) – Anyone with a computer has been asked to “select every image containing a traffic light” or “type the letters shown below” to prove that they are human. While these log-in hurdles — called reCAPTCHA tests — may … Read More
October 31, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – A West Coast biotech entrepreneur says he’s secured $30 million to form a public-benefit company to study how to safely create genetically edited babies, marking the largest known investment into the taboo technology. The new company, … Read More
October 31, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – Preventing the common cold is extremely tricky—but not impossible. We all got our flu jabs a month ago. Why couldn’t we get a vaccine to protect us against the common cold, too? Scientists have been working … Read More
October 31, 2025
(The New Republic) – In a pop-up city off the coast of Honduras, longevity startups are trying to fast-track anti-aging drugs. Is this the future of medical research? In July 2024, I flew to a pop-up city named Vitalia that … Read More
October 31, 2025
(New York Times) – Why are so many families in Lehigh Valley losing custody of their children? When Neary investigated the doctor’s past, she found a history of similar complaints spanning three decades and multiple states. Her reporting examined court … Read More
October 31, 2025
(WSJ) – 1X’s Neo wants to be your housekeeper. First, it needs to be controlled by a human in your home. Cool with you? Neo’s creator, 1X Technologies, is making the Rosie-the-Robot dream: some of the first humanoid housekeepers. Starting … Read More
October 31, 2025
(The Guardian) – Lawyer says ‘difficult to understand’ rules on storage consent led to confusion and left clients ‘in limbo’ A group of at least 15 fertility patients are taking legal action to prevent their frozen embryos being destroyed as … Read More
October 30, 2025
(AP) – Judges around the world are dealing with a growing problem: legal briefs that were generated with the help of artificial intelligence and submitted with errors such as citations to cases that don’t exist, according to attorneys and court … Read More
October 30, 2025
(New York Times) – Two professors at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign said they grew suspicious after receiving identical apologies from dozens of students they had accused of academic dishonesty. Confronted with allegations that they had cheated in an introductory … Read More
October 30, 2025
(ABC News) – Younger generations of Americans are increasingly citing climate change as making them reticent to have children, according to several studies. They are worried about bringing children into a world with increasing and more intense extreme weather events, … Read More
October 30, 2025
(Washington Post) – A study published in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology analyzed more than 18,100 births in Massachusetts of children born to women who contracted the virus starting in the early months of the pandemic through some of 2021. … Read More
