April 30, 2026
(NYT) – A “rich face” is stretched taut, often incapable of varied expressions and plumped with filler or implants or a person’s own grafted fat. Once, this face belonged to a villainous class of elites in sci-fi depictions of a … Read More
April 30, 2026
(WSJ) – The White House opposes a plan from Anthropic to expand access to its powerful artificial-intelligence model Mythos, complicating the rollout of an AI tool capable of carrying out cyberattacks and sowing widespread disruptions online. Anthropic recently proposed letting … Read More
April 30, 2026
(NYT) – A risk-taking outsider, he brought speed, competition and controversy to one of science’s biggest races. J. Craig Venter, a scientist and entrepreneur who raced to decode the human genome, died on Wednesday in San Diego. He was 79. … Read More
April 30, 2026
(Youtube) – The Chinese-made Unitree G1 humanoid robots are making their way into the U.S. And they aren’t just in viral videos but in major tech companies like OpenAI and Nvidia, and top academic institutions. Most arrive through Robostore, a … Read More
April 30, 2026
(Washington Post via Yahoo!) – The drug, rapamycin, is approved by the Food and Drug Administration to prevent organ-transplant rejection in people. But recent studies in yeast, flies and mice showed that relatively low doses of the drug often increase … Read More
April 30, 2026
(Vanity Fair) – From pharmaceutical crystal meth to the hormones for pubertymaxxing, these are the Clavicular-endorsed substances that will make your doctor shudder. Countless stories have been written about the quest for an elixir that would grant its drinker immortality. … Read More
April 29, 2026
(NPR) – Experts suspect several factors may be leading to these more frequent, virulent cancers: One is our greater reliance on ultra-processed foods, as well as plastics and chemicals that can leach into water and our bodies. Plus, there are … Read More
April 29, 2026
(NYT) – A headset recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration uses a weak electric current to shock the brain. Some researchers hope it could challenge the current pill-centric paradigm. Ms. Davies did an internet search and confirmed that … Read More
April 29, 2026
(The Guardian) – Elon Musk’s AI chatbot ‘extremely validating’ of delusional inputs and often went further, ‘elaborating new material’, study finds Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok 4.1 told researchers pretending to be delusional that there was indeed a doppelganger in … Read More
April 29, 2026
(The Assembly) – The demand for organ transplants has prompted an innovative procedure that reanimates a dead body. A North Carolina surgeon worries that when it’s done incorrectly, donors might feel pain in their last moments. She looked back at … Read More
April 28, 2026
(ProPublica) – A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities whose parents or relatives receive SNAP benefits. For … Read More
April 28, 2026
(Wired) – While many brain-computer interface companies are focused on helping paralyzed people communicate, Motif Neurotech is targeting mental health disorders. The latest brain-computer interface could help people recover from severe depression. Motif Neurotech announced Monday that the US Food … Read More
April 28, 2026
(Wired) – Nicotine pouches are revered among tech workers, who tout them as the perfect brain-boosting, productivity-jacking stimulants. Tech workers are increasingly attacking their marathon workdays like “racehorses” dosed with significant quantities of purportedly performance-maximizing nicotine, with each 6-mg pouch … Read More
April 27, 2026
(New York Times) – Before the rise of GLP-1s, obesity experts didn’t study the internal buzz that compels people to eat. Now that food noise is being switched off, they want to understand it. Before the new obesity drugs came … Read More
April 27, 2026
(New York Times) – A new therapy has the potential to cure hundreds of diseases — and even reverse aging. Many scientists now believe that mastering cellular rejuvenation may be the key to transforming how long and how well we … Read More
April 27, 2026
(Rest of World) – New research shows Americans are far less excited about AI — and far less trusting of regulators — than their counterparts across Asia. As AI adoption increases globally, anxiety about AI is rising — but so … Read More
April 27, 2026
(The New Republic) – If there was any doubt over the brewing public backlash to this technology, the last few weeks have erased it. These numbers and actions point in the same direction: a rapidly growing populist backlash toward AI, … Read More
April 24, 2026
(KFF Health News) – Patients are getting stuck in the emergency department for days while waiting for a spot in an inpatient ward. We had already learned the hard way that if you need admission to the hospital, you can … Read More
April 24, 2026
(AFP via 24 France) – Christine Li is a model and influencer, but not an actor, so when she saw herself playing a cruel character in a Chinese microdrama she felt bewildered, then angry and afraid. The 26-year-old is one … Read More
April 24, 2026
(WSJ) – Cognitive exercises offered by a bot named Sunny, paired with telehealth visits, can be ‘physical therapy for the brain’ NewDays requires patients to have telehealth visits, usually every two weeks, with its staff of doctors, then talk to … Read More
April 24, 2026
(MIT Technology Review) – The tools may be accurate, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll improve health outcomes. Or that it is being used, increasingly, in hospitals. Doctors are using AI to help them with notetaking. AI-based tools are trawling … Read More
April 23, 2026
(NYT) – The report found that the shots cut the likelihood of hospitalizations, but the agency’s acting head said it gave an inaccurate picture of the vaccines’ effectiveness. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who has been overseeing the agency’s operations in the … Read More
April 23, 2026
(Axios) – Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new push to loosen federal restrictions on peptides could be a bonanza for telehealth companies, compounding pharmacies and longevity clinics looking for the next big wellness trend. Why it matters: The heavily … Read More
April 23, 2026
(NBC News) – By 2035, rectal cancer death rates could exceed deaths from colon cancer, new research suggests. Deaths from rectal cancer are rising rapidly among younger adults, an alarming trend that is confounding scientists trying to understand why millennials … Read More
April 22, 2026
(Washington Post via MSN) – Florida’s attorney general announced a criminal investigation of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, alleging the company’s chatbot advised the man accused of killing two people in a shooting at Florida State University last year which ammunition to use … Read More
