Sauerkraut generally is a healthy food but claims about its benefit as a weight-loss tool are unsubstantiated.

An amoeba broke the record for the most heat-tolerant eukaryote. Incendiamoeba cascadensis lives at 60°C in hot springs, redefining the limits of complex life.

The virus has risen as a cause of death in the U.S. and killed a higher number of children in recent years.

US tech giant agrees to establish further protections for teens such as daily usage limits and blocks on nighttime use

RIP Dolly Parton

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The kids who will suffer sequelae or die are alive now

Earlier this year, the Lacks estate settled a lawsuit regarding a company’s profiting off of HeLa cells. The case serves as a reminder of the importance of proper ethics in human research.

Will we finally leave the past behind and make progress on prevention?

Canadian and American negotiators are expected to meet again on Tuesday to try and hammer out a deal to avoid new U.S. tariffs on some $30 billion in Canadian goods due to take effect just after midni...

Arden, 64, who is best known for ballads like Insensitive, Good Mother and Could I Be Your Girl, announced her engagement to Elva on Dec. 31, 2025. The couple initially met at a writer's retreat in Ic...

Equating the transmission of waterborne and airborne pathogens is beguiling but wrong

A neuroscientist dares to argue that old-fashioned psychoanalysis holds the key to curing mental illness.

The doctor was thrust into his pandemic-leadership role because of Trump’s deadly dereliction of duty.

Tamás Sulyok was widely seen as a loyalist of former prime minister Viktor Orbán, who lost power in April after 16 years.

Tether is a giant in crytocurrency, an industry that Nigel Farage believes the UK should be embracing.

Health systems must prepare for the return of the 'ancient' diseases mosquitoes carry

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This cohort study reports a secondary analysis of the BALANCE randomized clinical trial assessing whether procalcitonin levels are associated with survival among patients receiving 7 vs 14 days of ant...

The long read: Since 2017, Iason Gabriel has worked at the tech giant, trying to anticipate – and think through – the impact of AI. But as commercial and geopolitical pressures escalate, can ethicists...

Abstract Proficiency in clinical skills is becoming a thing of the past. Educating physicians to do a competent physical exam can save time, get answers quickly and perhaps more safely, and may even improve the physician/patient relationship, as well as sometimes eliminating the need for expensive tests.

The organizers of the American Diabetes Association meeting had a group of researchers removed from the event for sharing an editorial about negative impacts of policy changes to research funding.

Since hitting a record high of $126,000 last fall, bitcoin has dropped to just above $60,000 amid waves of selling. That has erased more than $1.2 trillion in market cap in eight months and wiped out ...

Senior leaders are gone. Half of its correspondents have vanished. Can the newsmagazine survive under Bari Weiss?

Report - Estimation of the size of the outbreak of Ebola disease caused by Bundibugyo virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Researchers from the Broad Institute used a precision genome-editing tool to switch off the production of the misfolded protein that causes prion disease.

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The “magic bullet” model that doctors are most comfortable with is ill-suited to some of the most disabling conditions they treat today.

Large Language Models (LLMs) are poised to disrupt knowledge work, with the emergence of delegated work as a new interaction paradigm (e.g., vibe coding). Delegation requires trust - the expectation t...

For the richest men on Earth, everything is free and nothing matters.

Kingston is at a crossroads. Decisions made today about our Urban Boundary will lock us into how we grow, move, and spend tax dollars until 2051. But right now, City Council is being asked to "endorse...

When the algorithm begins to share delusions

Conflict in the Gulf is exposing how dependent Europe’s pharmacies are on global supply chains for essential medicines, active ingredients, and transport.