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In wake of 23andMe DNA data breach, privacy concerns reemerge
A new data breach is highlighting the risks of having your ancestry information stored online — and what it might ...
Food, serotonin and mood: Can your diet help combat seasonal slumps?
The following nutrition tips can help banish the seasonal slump and keep your spirits high: Salmon for anxiety relief Salmon ...
‘Nothing short of a miracle’: Surgeons reattach boy’s head after car accident
Surgeons in Israel performed a miracle surgery and managed to reattach a boy’s head after he was hit by a ...
Anorexia and the will to live: Canada poised to expand physician-assisted suicide to those with mental illnesses
The new mental health provision will make Canada one of the most expansive countries in the world when it comes ...
Pronatalism: An emerging new eugenics movement encourages intellectual elites to have more children
Linked to the subcultures of rationalism and ‘effective altruism’ (EA), and bolstered by declining birth rates, it has been gaining ...
‘Love hormone’ in doubt? Research on monogamous prairie voles raises doubts about oxytocin’s role in social bonding
For 40 years, oxytocin has been believed to be the ‘love hormone’ or the ‘cuddle hormone’ which inspires love and ...
Anti-vaxxers, COVID conspiracists, FOX’s Tucker Carlson and the far right link vaccines to NFL player Damar Hamlin’s cardiac arrest
Moments after Buffalo Bills defensive back Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field after making a tackle on 2 January, Covid-19 conspiracy theorists and right-wing personalities baselessly blamed ...
‘Omicron has started to splinter’: Winter COVID wave may come with a ‘dizzying barrage’ of new variants
The last big variant of concern — the hypertransmissible Omicron offshoot known as BA.5 — peaked in July. Since then, ...
Anti-aging process can reduce biological age of skin cells — but there’s a deadly hitch
Fifteen years ago, scientists made a stirring discovery when they demonstrated that they could reverse the process of aging in ...
Natural COVID immunity? Some people are exposed to SARS-CoV-2 but never get sick
More than two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, most Americans have some immunity against the virus — either by vaccination ...
‘Deleting’ disease? How gene editing and transgenic GMO technology can cut disorders before they are inherited
What has now been proven possible was once the stuff of science fiction dreams. CRISPR has shown it can successfully ...
‘Great potential harm to international harmony’: When COVID broke, key scientists believed virus could have leaked from Wuhan lab, but Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins suppressed debate
Early in the pandemic, multiple scientists urged NIAID Director Anthony Fauci and NIH Director Francis Collins to seriously consider the ...
What personality traits lead to living longer?
Recent research shows that several personality traits predict who will enjoy health into their 80s and beyond. According to some ...
Virgin birth? It’s actually been observed in about 80 vertebrate species, and most recently, in sharks
Scientists say a rare shark "virgin birth" may be the first of its kind after a baby shark was born ...
Almost 50 years ago, conservatives were the backbone of societal support for science. Now just 45% of Republicans have confidence in the institution
A new Gallup poll reveals that, in 2021, just 45 percent of Republicans report having a "great deal" or "quite ...
Viewpoint: Why Earth is almost certainly the universe’s only example of intelligent life
In newly published research from Oxford University's Future of Humanity Institute, scientists study the likelihood of key times for evolution of life ...
Epidemiologist who guided Sweden’s ‘no lockdown’ policy sidelined after surge overwhelms the country
The high-profile epidemiologist who led Sweden's no lock-down strategy in the spring appears to be being sidelined by the government ...
Critical defense against Alzheimer’s: Deep sleep
Research is increasingly linking insomnia to dementia, the umbrella term for a range of conditions that cause a decline in ...
Aging reversed using high-pressure hyperbaric oxygen chamber, Israeli researchers claim in peer reviewed study
Scientists in Israel showed they could turn back the clock in two key areas of the body believed to be ...
Why evangelical Christians fear—and may reject—a coronavirus vaccine
“Of course,” [Evangelical Christian Laura Popham] said, she’s worried about contracting COVID-19. But she’s more worried about a possible vaccine ...
Visit Mars and bring back alien life? Troubles containing coronavirus should make us wary of bringing microbes to Earth
You know what? Maybe we ought to reconsider this whole thing about looking for life on other worlds. It would ...
Trouble dragging yourself to the gym? It could be your genes
It’s long been thought that some people find exercising easier than others. While some will happily jog off to the ...
Bill Gates: AI, gene editing could help us reach global health goals ‘exponentially’ faster
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has been working to improve the state of global health through his nonprofit foundation for 20 ...
‘Expanding the capabilities of the human body’: Russian biohackers turn to implants, supplements and extreme exercise
Gripping a scalpel, Vladislav Zaitsev makes an incision in the fold of skin between his client's thumb and index finger ...
Genetic mutations may provide natural defense against Alzheimer’s
A set of genetic mutations may protect against Alzheimer’s, research suggests. The memory-robbing disease is poorly understood, with few known ...
If we started again from scratch, would life on Earth evolve the same way?
Evolution is often seen as a mysterious process, but it’s actually predictable, and if life on Earth evolved again it ...
Ancient infant DNA shows Native Americans split from their Asian ancestors 25,000 years ago
DNA from an infant who died in Alaska some 11,500 years ago is giving scientists the best look yet at ...
First alien life forms we encounter could well be robots
[T]he first aliens we encounter are likely to be machines, and they’ll be almost unimaginably old. Susan Schneider of the ...