August 22, 2025
(Discover) – Everyone’s voice is unique. Because of our individual nuances in anatomy, it’s as distinguishable as a fingerprint. While those differences help us tell one another apart, our voices might also hold clues to detecting laryngeal cancer (cancer of … Read More
August 22, 2025
(Techradar) – GPT‑5 Pro impresses with its complex, layered response to prompts. The crown jewel of the GPT-5 rollout this month even made OpenAI CEO Sam Altman nervous with some of its responses. But you shouldn’t confuse brilliant algorithmic models … Read More
August 22, 2025
(STAT News) – I’ve seen it as a psychologist — and experienced it as a patient Even through Zoom, I could tell she was unraveling. Her face was drawn, her shoulders hunched, her eyes darting just off-camera like she was … Read More
August 22, 2025
(Nature) – Study challenges the textbook idea that the brain region that processes body sensations reorganizes itself after limb amputation. A brain-imaging study of people with amputated arms has upended a long-standing belief: that the brain’s map of the body … Read More
August 22, 2025
(The Guardian) – Figures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database indicate five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza have been civilians, an extreme rate of slaughter rarely matched in recent decades of warfare. (Read More)
August 22, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Official designation by leading food-security experts adds to pressure on Israel International food-security experts said a famine has taken hold around Gaza City, the first-ever such determination in the Middle East and one that puts more … Read More
August 22, 2025
(Wired) – Built with Gemini, Google’s AI health coach will be everything but a doctor. Fitbit’s smartphone app has undergone several redesigns over the past two years, and now there’s another big one coming in October, timed to the launch … Read More
August 22, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – My relatives didn’t get a vote when I added my genetic profile to a crime-fighting database. In 2018, police in California announced they’d caught the Golden State Killer, a man who had eluded capture for decades. They … Read More
August 22, 2025
(Wired) – Scientists recorded in 3D and in real time the exact moment a human embryo implanted itself in an artificial uterus, opening new avenues for treating infertility. A team of researchers at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) … Read More
August 22, 2025
(The Hedgehog Review) – What happened when I fed my soul into an LLM. Freshly severed from employment (again), my idle hands and idle mind got up to tricks. Rearranging closets. Shredding. Buying plants that look cool but die. Extreme … Read More
August 22, 2025
(After Babel) – Last week, Reuters published an investigation that cited internal Meta documents and sources that should anger anyone who cares about children’s safety online. The documents explain that the social media giant’s AI policies explicitly permit chatbots to … Read More
August 22, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 393, no. 5, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
August 21, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – Google has just released a technical report detailing how much energy its Gemini apps use for each query. In total, the median prompt—one that falls in the middle of the range of energy demand—consumes 0.24 watt-hours … Read More
August 21, 2025
(NPR) – As more states adopt laws allowing terminally ill patients to end their own lives, some groups representing disabled people are suing to stop them. In June, New York became the 11th state to pass legislation allowing terminally ill … Read More
August 21, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Surrogacy is typically the most expensive path to parenthood. Turning to friends and family can lower the cost—for those willing to navigate legal minefields and tricky family dynamics. Having a surrogate give birth to your baby … Read More
August 21, 2025
(Wired) – For AI models, knowing what to remember might be as important as knowing what to forget. Welcome to the era of “sleeptime compute.” Large language models can typically only “recall” things if information is included in the context … Read More
August 21, 2025
(NPR) – As human-driven climate change makes winters shorter, ticks are spending less time hibernating and have more active months when they can hitch rides on animals and people. Sometimes the ticks carry themselves — and diseases — to new … Read More
August 21, 2025
(New York Times) – A small, preliminary study found that marathoners were much more likely to have precancerous growths. Experts aren’t sure why. By the time they came to see Dr. Timothy Cannon, all three had advanced colon cancer. He … Read More
August 21, 2025
(NBC News) – Stephanie Nixdorf’s insurance company repeatedly declined to cover a drug to treat her arthritis. That changed after she sent an appeal letter crafted with help from AI. With his wife in agony, Jason Nixdorf had a chance … Read More
August 20, 2025
(Ars Technica) – Using data from the Food and Drug Administration, the researchers identified 10,861 drug facilities that were active for at least one year between 2019 and 2024. These facilities represent the array of manufacturing stages of a drug, … Read More
August 20, 2025
(ProPublica) – The tech giant is required to regularly provide U.S. officials with its plan for keeping government data safe from hacking. Yet a copy of Microsoft’s security plan obtained by ProPublica makes no reference to the company’s China-based operations. … Read More
August 20, 2025
(Wired) – Nearly a million records, which appear to be linked to a medical-cannabis-card company in Ohio, included Social Security numbers, government IDs, health conditions, and more. As legal cannabis has expanded around the United States for both recreational and … Read More
August 20, 2025
(The Jerusalem Post) – Tel Aviv University announced on Wednesday that the surgery will take place in Israel, marking a historic milestone in regenerative medicine. Israel is preparing to perform the world’s first-ever human spinal cord implant using a patient’s … Read More
August 20, 2025
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (vol. 34, no. 2, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
August 19, 2025
(NBC News) – The dilemma over what to do with embryos cast aside, and who should assume ownership of them, is a thorny one. “We were not prepared for any of this,” Sweet said. Sweet is one of thousands of … Read More
