August 19, 2025
(Washington Post) – In tech classes, seniors are learning about AI-generated images and the risks of AI scams and deepfakes — and finding their own uses for bots like ChatGPT. America’s seniors, who have lived through leaps in technology like … Read More
August 19, 2025
(The Hill) – An experimental cancer vaccine has shown promising results in keeping pancreatic and colorectal cancers from coming back. In a clinical trial led by the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, Los Angeles, researchers tested … Read More
August 19, 2025
(New York Times) – The Department of Health and Human Services recently announced it would wind down 22 mRNA vaccine development projects under the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, or BARDA, halting nearly $500 million in investments. This decision … Read More
August 19, 2025
(NPR) – “Without it, he will have a devastating end of life,” says Dr. Marco Lee, past president of the Western Neurosurgical Society. “When your breathing starts to go, it’s like this constant feeling of drowning.” That would have been … Read More
August 19, 2025
(The Guardian) – It looks like medieval torture, from the metal rods inserted into sawn bones to the months of agonising recovery. But to some, travelling to Turkey to gain a few inches is a (very high) price worth paying … Read More
August 15, 2025
(Nature) – Video provides an up-close look at a human embryo plunging into tissue that simulates the uterine lining. A time-lapse film offers a glimpse of a hidden milestone of human development: the moment when the newly formed embryo latches … Read More
August 15, 2025
(NPR) – Mpox made for scary headlines in 2022 and 2023: tens of thousands of cases worldwide, with 30,000 in the U.S. in just one year. There were reports of painful lesions and mammoth efforts to mobilize vaccines. In 2025, … Read More
August 15, 2025
(Straight Arrow News) – Researchers have highlighted three emerging types of AI psychosis. The first is “messianic missions,” where people believe they’ve uncovered some kind of truth about the world. The second is “God-like AI,” where people believe the chatbot … Read More
August 15, 2025
(New York Times) – A guitarist in a death metal band was one of several people who found that personalized deep brain stimulation eased their pain and helped them reduce pain medication. Chronic pain, defined as lasting at least three … Read More
August 14, 2025
(The Verge) – Blood oxygen monitoring is returning to the Apple Watch — sort of. Starting today, Apple is rolling out a software update that enables a redesigned version of the feature for the Apple Watch Series 9, 10, and … Read More
August 14, 2025
(ProPublica) – ProPublica identified more than 150 products that were exempted from import bans since 2013. Our list provides the names of the drugs or ingredients and their manufacturers, many of which are no longer banned. For more than a … Read More
August 14, 2025
(Reuters) – A cognitively impaired New Jersey man grew infatuated with “Big sis Billie,” a Facebook Messenger chatbot with a young woman’s persona. His fatal attraction puts a spotlight on Meta’s AI guidelines, which have let chatbots make things up … Read More
August 14, 2025
(New York Times) – Over 21 days of talking with ChatGPT, an otherwise perfectly sane man became convinced that he was a real-life superhero. We analyzed the conversation. We wanted to understand how these chatbots can lead ordinarily rational people … Read More
August 13, 2025
(NPR) – Coping with cancer is rarely easy for anyone, but men tend to fare worse — emotionally and physically — than women. Evidence shows male survivors isolate more, seek less peer and other support and, alarmingly, die earlier. Gender … Read More
August 13, 2025
(Straight Arrow News) – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against Eli Lilly, accusing the drug maker of bribing doctors to prescribe their medications. Paxton said the quid pro quo arrangements tainted millions of dollars of claims to … Read More
August 13, 2025
(BBC) – The women at the community kitchen in the besieged Sudanese city of el-Fasher are sitting in huddles of desperation. “Our children are dying before our eyes,” one of them tells the BBC. “We don’t know what to do. … Read More
August 13, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – China’s ambition to turn its open-source artificial-intelligence models into a global standard has jolted American companies and policymakers, who fear U.S. models could be eclipsed and are mobilizing their responses to the threat. Chinese advances in … Read More
August 13, 2025
(Futurism) – Our brains, the researcher explains, work on a predictive basis: we effectively make an educated guess about what reality will be, then conduct a reality check. Finally, our brains update our beliefs accordingly. “Psychosis happens when the ‘update,’ … Read More
August 13, 2025
(IE via MSN) – The already fierce rivalry between tech titans Sam Altman and Elon Musk is escalating to a new frontier: the human brain. A story from the Financial Times (FT) reports that Altman’s OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, … Read More
August 13, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Tech execs are paying tens of thousands to find brilliant dates or select high-IQ embryos. ‘They want to raise high-performing children.’ Tsvi Benson-Tilsen, a mathematician, spent seven years researching how to keep an advanced form of … Read More
August 12, 2025
(New York Times) – Male fertility deserves broader consideration outside these isolated spaces. Mounting evidence suggests that exposure to so-called endocrine-disrupting chemicals present in many products, from food and beverage containers to furniture and agricultural pesticides, may affect male potency … Read More
August 12, 2025
(The Guardian) – To the shock of experts, the number of abortions performed in the US rose in the three years since the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade and paved the way for more than a dozen states … Read More
August 12, 2025
(New York Times) – Artificial intelligence apps generating fake nudes, amid other privacy concerns, make “sharenting” far riskier than it was just a few years ago. Parents have debated the risks and benefits of publishing pictures of their children online … Read More
August 12, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – With the launch of GPT-5, OpenAI has begun explicitly telling people to use its models for health advice. At the launch event, Altman welcomed on stage Felipe Millon, an OpenAI employee, and his wife, Carolina Millon, … Read More
August 11, 2025
(New York Times) – As products like weed gummies proliferate, more children and teens are suffering symptoms including seizures and life-threatening breathing problems. As legalization and commercialization of cannabis have spread across the United States, making marijuana edibles more readily … Read More
