A dish of living human neurons has been taught to play Doom. No, it isn’t conscious or watching the screen the way players do. But it is learning to respond to signals in a way that produces ...

A short newsletter item summarized a new Canadian study into a simple takeaway: toddlers who eat more ultra-processed foods tend to develop more behavioral problems. The statement is technically ...

Despite activist claims about trace amounts of glyphosate in foods like cereal, you'd need to eat absurd quantities- like 30+ bowls of Cheerios daily for over a year, before you approach the EPA's ...

In 1921, Otto Loewi woke from a dream with the idea for an experiment that proved nerves communicate using chemicals, not just electricity. By showing that stimulating one frog’s heart released a ...

From miracle weight-loss fix to mass tort battleground: drugs like Ozempic and Mounjaro promise better health — but also ...

Stories about celebrities taking propanolol, a beta-blocking drug, are all over the place. It's being used to ward off stage fright. Does it really work, or is it just more celebrity nonsense? Hint - ...

Today is an AI edition, a chance to consider its expanding reach — from the playroom to the ballpark to the battlefield. What was once confined to screens and research labs is now embedded in toys, ...

One year ago, Los Angeles experienced one of the most destructive urban wildfire disasters in its history. The fires consumed more than 55,000 acres, destroyed nearly 16,000 homes, and claimed ...

Words matter in national dietary guidance—especially technical ones. In the 2025–2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, ...

Why do some people get goosebumps from a song while others hear the exact same notes…and feel nothing? New research reveals ...

Few topics provoke as much concern as the perception that puberty is beginning earlier than ever. While synthetic ...

Fruit flies’ exposure to radiation from the basis of modern federal radiation directives, the debate over how we calculate ...