August 5, 2025
(Nature) – Eighty years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Japan, it is crucial that witness accounts are saved. Here is what one man told me. By the summer of 1945, after peace was declared in Europe, Japan was … Read More
August 5, 2025
(New York Times) – A statistical analysis found that the number of fake journal articles being churned out by “paper mills” is doubling every year and a half. For years, whistle-blowers have warned that fake results are sneaking into the … Read More
August 5, 2025
(Washington Post via MSN) – Artificial intelligence tools are not just reshaping how we work, learn and live. They’re also changing what happens after we die, as families and funeral homes seek help in creating tributes and eulogies to define … Read More
August 5, 2025
(Ars Technica) – A federal jury found on Friday that Meta violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act, the state’s wiretap law, by collecting data from a period-tracker app without user consent. Plaintiffs in a class-action case proved by a … Read More
August 5, 2025
(Straight Arrow News) – A growing body of research shows intense grief can impact the body but a new study suggests those effects may last far longer than we thought. Researchers in Denmark tracked bereaved relatives and found those with … Read More
August 5, 2025
(Techradar) – A global network of more than 5,000 fake pharmacy websites has been uncovered by security experts. Designed to mimic legitimate drug retailers, the platforms sell counterfeit or unregulated medications while harvesting sensitive personal and financial data. In many … Read More
August 5, 2025
(CBS News) – As more people aged 45-49 are getting screened for colon cancer, more early stage diagnoses are being made, according to new research from the American Cancer Society. The research, published in two studies Monday in the Journal of … Read More
August 5, 2025
(The Verge) – Google dubbed an error from its Med-Gemini model a typo. Experts say it demonstrates the risks of AI in medicine. Scenario: A radiologist is looking at your brain scan and flags an abnormality in the basal ganglia. … Read More
August 5, 2025
(NBC News) – A slur for robots and AI has emerged online in recent weeks, offering some sense of growing societal anxiety with increasingly capable technology. But there’s a catch. By using a slur in a way that would typically … Read More
August 4, 2025
(New York Times) – Tatiana Andia knew Colombia would permit her a medically assisted death. She took her country with her on the journey to dying. Colombia has allowed physician-assisted death — known there as euthanasia — for a decade. … Read More
August 4, 2025
(BBC) – Gonorrhoea vaccines will be widely available from Monday in sexual health clinics across the UK, in a bid to tackle record-breaking levels of infections. The jabs will first be offered to those at highest risk – mostly gay … Read More
August 4, 2025
(NPR) – A new federal report finds that the percentage of adults with suicidal thoughts and attempts remained about the same between 2021 and 2024. But the analysis of the National Survey on Drug Use and Health did offer some … Read More
August 4, 2025
(USA Today) – The White House has no current plans to mandate insurance coverage for in vitro fertilization, despite President Donald Trump’s campaign promise to expand access to fertility treatments, The Washington Post reported on Saturday. Trump signed an executive … Read More
August 4, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – A deepfake Dwayne Johnson is just one part of a broader technological earthquake hitting Hollywood. Studios are scrambling to figure out simultaneously how to use AI in the filmmaking process and how to protect themselves against … Read More
August 4, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – The build-out of artificial-intelligence infrastructure is costing a fortune, straining companies and capital markets In the past two weeks one big tech company after another reported blowout earnings amid a wholesale embrace of artificial intelligence. Look … Read More
August 4, 2025
(CBS News) – Plastic pollution is a “grave, growing and under-recognized danger” to health that is costing the world at least $1.5 trillion a year, a report published Monday in the Lancet medical journal said. The new review of existing … Read More
August 4, 2025
(Nature) – When people viewed virtual avatars with coughs or rashes, their brains triggered an immune response. The brain activates front-line immune cells in response to the mere sight of a sick person, mimicking the body’s response to an actual … Read More
August 4, 2025
(NPR) – At 57, two-time Super Bowl champion Deion Sanders, has a brand-new bladder. The University of Colorado coach recently underwent reconstructive surgery to treat an aggressive form of bladder cancer after doctors discovered a tumor this spring. The procedure, … Read More
August 1, 2025
(Reuters) – Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink said on Thursday it will launch a clinical study in Great Britain to test how its chips can enable patients with severe paralysis to control digital and physical tools with their thoughts. … Read More
August 1, 2025
(CNBC) – Until recently, stories of human-AI companionship were mostly confined to the realms of Hollywood and science fiction. But the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022 and the generative AI boom that quickly followed ushered in a new era … Read More
August 1, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Hundreds of thousands of veterans with PTSD have been prescribed simultaneous doses of powerful psychiatric drugs. The practice, known as “polypharmacy,” can tranquilize patients to the point of numbness, cause weight gain and increase suicidal thoughts … Read More
August 1, 2025
(Gizmodo) – The federal government may not have closed the window on paying for GLP-1 weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Zepbound after all. The Trump administration is reportedly planning to conduct an experiment that will allow some people to … Read More
August 1, 2025
(TechRadar) – Nearly half (45%) of AI-generated code contains security flaws despite appearing production-ready, new research from Veracode has found. Its study of more than 100 large language models across 80 different coding tasks revealed no improvement in security across … Read More
August 1, 2025
(Wired) – Evidence is growing that some HIV-infected infants, if given antiretroviral drugs early in life, are able to suppress their viral loads to undetectable levels and then come off the medicine. After putting the children on antiretroviral drugs early … Read More
August 1, 2025
(NPR) – Nearly one in five pregnant women and new moms in this country suffers from anxiety and depression. And 6-8% of pregnant women are prescribed a group of antidepressants called Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs). But a recent expert … Read More
