March 27, 2026
(AP) – Noelia Castillo, a Spanish woman who sought euthanasia and fought a protracted legal battle with her family over her right to do so, received life-ending medicine on Thursday in Barcelona. She was 25. (Read More)
March 27, 2026
(WSJ) – The beauty industry is seizing on anxiety about the wrinkles from excessive scrolling; ‘I am too young for this.’ Technology has been accused of everything from spiraling anxiety to vanishing attention spans to social isolation. Now, it has … Read More
March 27, 2026
(New Scientist) – A 20-year study has shown that, like photocopying photocopies, cloning doesn’t produce perfect copies – with big implications for farming, conservation and de-extinction A clone is meant to be a genetically identical copy, but an extraordinary 20-year … Read More
March 27, 2026
(Gizmodo) – The new CDC report found that the new variant has spread to 25 U.S. states and 23 countries worldwide. Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are tracking a new covid-19 variant with mutations to its … Read More
March 27, 2026
(Comment) – Reflections from a Canadian public policy researcher. Tracy’s story has reverberated through the years. Amid news in 2018 that Robert Latimer was applying for a pardon or a new trial, my friend Taylor Hyatt, who lives with cerebral … Read More
March 27, 2026
(Rest of World) – Employees are rushing to learn new tools as layoffs and automation fuel widespread AI anxiety. The growth of AI has triggered global anxiety about job loss — and it is most palpable in China, where the … Read More
March 26, 2026
(Nature) – The comprehensive guide draws on brain scans from almost 3,600 people, ranging from infants to centenarians. It maps a property called functional connectivity, which describes the level of coordination between separate brain regions. The data suggest that in … Read More
March 26, 2026
(NYT) – The incidence of alpha-gal syndrome appears to be growing significantly. Patients who are bitten can develop a severe allergy to red meat, and a few have died. Once regarded as a rarity, the disease, which involves an allergy … Read More
March 26, 2026
(The Guardian) – Global family planning aid typically drops under Republican presidents and then rises again by 48% once Democratic presidents are elected, the research, published in BMJ Global Health, finds. For countries heavily reliant on US aid, there are … Read More
March 25, 2026
(NYT) – The attorneys general of Texas and Arizona contend that Cord Blood Registry, which stores umbilical cord cells, profited from misleading new parents. The company, Cord Blood Registry, houses more than a million samples of umbilical cords in Tucson, … Read More
March 25, 2026
(CT) – Supplements and other wellness products do big business on social media, and even Scripture can be turned into marketing language. Energy drinks are an $80 billion dollar business. Praise Energy is an example of the “wellness washing” of … Read More
March 25, 2026
(MIT Technology Review) – New research can’t yet say whether AI causes delusions or amplifies them, a distinction that will shape everything from high-profile court cases to safety rules for chatbots. A group at Stanford that focuses on the psychological … Read More
March 25, 2026
(WSJ) – Jurors found the companies negligent and said their app designs caused harm to children A jury found Instagram’s owner Meta and YouTube negligent for operating a product that harmed kids and teens and failed to warn about those … Read More
March 25, 2026
(Bloomberg) – Doctors call it Ondine’s curse—a catastrophic failure of the brain stem in which breathing no longer happens automatically, especially during sleep. It’s extremely rare, typically seen only in infants with genetic mutations or adults after severe trauma, and … Read More
March 24, 2026
(CNET) – The New Mexico ruling comes as a Los Angeles jury is still debating whether Meta’s social media platforms are addictive to children. A New Mexico jury found Tuesday that Meta violated the state’s consumer protection laws by misleading … Read More
March 24, 2026
(MIT Technology Review) – Coles, a gerontologist who spent the latter part of his career studying human longevity, opted to have his brain cryogenically preserved when he died of pancreatic cancer. After he was declared dead, Coles’s body was kept … Read More
March 24, 2026
(The Atlantic) – Even as they claim the right to train their models on work belonging to other people, the AI companies have rejected similar reasoning when it comes to their own products. Consider OpenAI’s terms of service for ChatGPT, … Read More
March 24, 2026
(The Guardian) – Caring for ageing parents is difficult in the best circumstances – when relationships are loving and siblings are collaborative. But for those who have had complicated relationships with their parents, especially those characterised by abuse, trauma or … Read More
March 24, 2026
(Wired) – R3 Bio has a bold idea for replacing lab animals: genetically-engineered whole organ systems that lack a brain. The long-term goal, says a cofounder, is to make human versions. As the Trump administration phases out the use of … Read More
March 24, 2026
(Wired) – Attachment to smart devices and biometric surveillance leaves Americans more vulnerable to police searches than ever. Left unchecked it will only get worse. The desire for self-awareness is not new, but these data offer a different twist on … Read More
March 23, 2026
(AP) – Because of participants’ silence around the ritual, families and authorities have struggled to understand and police a deeply traditional but often abused practice. At least a half-dozen former initiates would not speak to The Associated Press. Meanwhile, hundreds … Read More
March 23, 2026
(The Telegraph) – Mosquitoes typically spread disease, rather than prevent it, but Chinese scientists have proposed using the insects as an unlikely vector to deliver vaccines to bats. In a study published in Science Advances journal, researchers designed mosquitoes which carry … Read More
March 23, 2026
(New York Times) – Across the United States, plasma centers are opening in wealthier areas as more people struggle with the high cost of housing, groceries and health care. Every day, an estimated 215,000 people donate plasma, the yellowish liquid … Read More
March 23, 2026
(MIT Technology Review) – Placebo and “knowcebo” effects are a problem. But they can also help people feel better. Over the last decade, we’ve seen scientific interest in these drugs explode. But most clinical trials of psychedelics have been small … Read More
March 20, 2026
(AP) – Heavy social media use contributes to a stark decline in well-being among young people, with the effects particularly worrying in teenage girls in English-speaking countries and Western Europe, according to the World Happiness Report 2026 published Thursday. The … Read More
