January 27, 2026
(The Independent) – A charity boss fears some hospice staff and volunteers may resign if the assisted dying bill becomes law, as the sector braces for profound changes. In an already under-resourced workforce, Hospice UK’s chief executive Toby Porter fears … Read More
January 27, 2026
(Daily Mail) – Lab–grown life has taken a major leap forward as scientists use AI to create a new virus that has never been seen before. The virus, dubbed Evo–Φ2147, was created by scientists from scratch using new technologies that … Read More
January 27, 2026
(New York Times) – Drawing on his love of fly-fishing, he developed a balloon catheter that removes blood clots from patients’ limbs in a minimally invasive way. It has saved millions of lives. Six-plus decades after its invention, the Fogarty … Read More
January 26, 2026
(NBC News) – The agency plays a key role in tracking disease spread and vaccination rates. Last year, it seemed to back away from some of that work, according to new research. Nearly half of the databases that the Centers … Read More
January 26, 2026
(New York Times) – Dozens of doctors and therapists said chatbots had led their patients to psychosis, isolation and unhealthy habits. Mental health workers across the country are navigating how to treat problems caused or exacerbated by A.I. chatbots, according … Read More
January 26, 2026
(Washington Post via MSN) – Safety standards have improved since the industry’s early days in China, when botched surgeries and unlicensed aesthetic products were commonplace. But the combination of social media, cosmetic clinics trawling for business in a competitive market … Read More
January 26, 2026
(Wired) – More and more Chinese adoptees in the US are trying to reunite with their birth parents. For Youxue, it took more than a decade, and a remarkable coincidence. Decades earlier, the conditions that shaped this family’s life were … Read More
January 26, 2026
(Washington Post via Yahoo!) – For years, parents alleged that top social media companies had gotten teens hooked on their products with addictive design features, arguing in legal filings these choices led to depression, anxiety, eating disorders – and in … Read More
January 26, 2026
(CNN) – Beware of the AI chatbot that becomes more than just a friend, or worse, an emotional crutch. Pope Leo XIV has warned about overly “affectionate” chatbots, urging regulation to prevent humans from forming serious emotional bonds with their … Read More
January 26, 2026
(SF Gate) – Nearly six years later, a generation of first-year college students is still feeling the fallout, shaped by years of online high school, isolation and disrupted learning during some of their most formative years. Even as college life … Read More
January 23, 2026
(New York Times) – A crackdown on problems with fairness and safety is achieving results, including a big drop in the number of sick patients being passed over for transplants. For years, the nonprofit groups that coordinate transplants in the … Read More
January 23, 2026
(RAND) – This is the first report from the 2025 RAND Psychedelics Survey, which was fielded in September 2025 to a probability-based, nationally representative sample[1] of 10,122 adults ages 18 years and older living in the United States at that … Read More
January 23, 2026
(BBC) – The US has officially withdrawn from the World Health Organization (WHO), leaving the UN agency without one of its biggest donors. US President Donald Trump signed an executive order signalling the withdrawal a year ago, having criticised the … Read More
January 23, 2026
(Washington Post via MSN) – From a 5,500-year-old human shin bone, scientists have discovered a close cousin of the pathogen that causes syphilis, providing the oldest evidence yet that the disease has ancient roots in the Americas, millennia before European … Read More
January 23, 2026
(Nature) – After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts. Here’s what happened next. We are increasingly being encouraged to integrate generative AI into research and teaching. Individuals … Read More
January 23, 2026
(MIT Technology Review) – OpenAI’s newest product is no replacement for a doctor. But it might be better than searching the web for your symptoms. Though ChatGPT Health lives in a separate sidebar tab from the rest of ChatGPT, it … Read More
January 23, 2026
(Plough) – Our son Yusang has Down syndrome. He saved another child’s life. My wife and I had just learned that a couple from our church were wrestling with grief and confusion, so that cold Sunday evening, I set out … Read More
January 23, 2026
(Wired) – The trial starts soon in New Mexico’s case against Meta—and the company is pulling out all the stops to protect its reputation. Meta has emphasized in pretrial motions that the only questions the jury should be asked are … Read More
January 23, 2026
(New York Times) – We definitely have an attention problem, but it’s not just a function of the digital technology that pings and beeps and flashes and nudges us ever closer to despair. It starts with the way we think … Read More
January 22, 2026
(New York Times) – People, and men in particular, have long mixed solid science and serious quackery in the pursuit of longevity. Whatever the maximum human life span may be, people appear increasingly determined to find it — in particular … Read More
January 22, 2026
(Wired) – A new EPIC report says data brokers, ad-tech surveillance, and ICE enforcement are among the factors leading to a “health privacy crisis” that is eroding trust and deterring people from seeking care. When immigration agents enter hospitals, and … Read More
January 22, 2026
(New York Times) – He Jiankui spent three years in prison after creating gene-edited babies. Now back at work, he sees a greater opening for researchers who push boundaries. For creating the world’s first genetically edited babies, He Jiankui has … Read More
January 22, 2026
(Washington Post via MSN) – Epic’s disclosures offer a rare glimpse into the unseen workings of how your personal medical records move from one network to another, who has access to them, and where there may be gaps that allow … Read More
January 22, 2026
(Wired) – Explosive acceleration, limited dexterity, eyes in the back of its head. What could possibly go wrong? Perhaps no humanoid maker has a bigger lead than a Hangzhou-based company called Unitree. While Elon Musk’s Optimus staggers through its demos, … Read More
January 22, 2026
(Axios) – This chart shows what it looks like to hit a 30-year high in measles cases — and why the U.S. is on track to lose its measles “elimination status.” Why it matters: We’ve all heard that cases are … Read More
