Science Literacy Project Daily Digest
As measles cases continue to surge, RFK Jr. blocks CDC scientists from issuing emergency alert warning unvaccinated pregnant women of significantly increased risks
Federal scientists have spent weeks trying to warn doctors about the dangers of measles during pregnancy, but the warning still ...
Are Texas data centers killing calves? Debunking viral AI claims
A viral story claiming that every calf born on a Texas ranch has been stillborn since an artificial intelligence data ...
Slow adoption: Only 15 of Africa’s 54 nations embrace genetic engineering food revolution. Here’s why
Genetically modified crops could help Africa feed its fast-growing population, but only 15 of the continent’s 54 nations have taken ...
Who should police false online health claims? Younger adults blame their generation; older adults point to government, doctors and social media companies
Ask Americans who should clean up false health claims online, and the answer depends a lot on their age and ...
AI medicine breakthrough: Could ‘good viruses’ created by AI cure deadly diseases and infections?
For the first time, scientists say they have used viruses designed by artificial intelligence to treat a person with a ...
RFK Jr.’s collapsing legacy: U.S. poised to lose measles elimination status
America may be about to lose the measles-elimination status it has held since 2000, and the verdict could double as ...
‘Gattaca stack’: The eugenic, technological push to ‘improve the human stock’
Our obsession with optimization has reached the fertility clinic, and some tech boosters want to push it much further — ...
Uneasy allies: Are MAHA and American agriculture careening toward a breakup?
The Make America Healthy Again movement and American farmers have been awkward allies from the start, and the relationship may ...
4 key ways the Blue Wave will upend science policy
Democrats are poised to take control of Congress, and some are vowing to do more than play defense against the ...
More than 80% of ‘pro-science’ candidates were swept into office. Will they have a policy impact?
The midterms sent an unusual wave of doctors and scientists into office, and many shared the same backer: the 314 ...
Blue, purple and red states passed or reaffirmed bans on trans females competing in women’s sports
Voters in four states this week approved or tightened limits on transgender athletes competing in girls’ and women’s sports — ...
Voters hate AI data centers, yet they are crucial to establishing a critical technology. So what’s next?
Midterms delivered a jolt to the AI industry: candidates promising to freeze data-center development won statehouses in Texas, Georgia, Ohio ...
Viewpoint: Democratic tsunami: As the red tide recedes, here are the most likely shifts in food and agricultural policy
Democrats retook both the House and Senate in Tuesday’s midterms, and the shift could ripple from the farm bill to ...
$7.35 billion PFAS settlement: 3M to pay people who blame health problems on ‘forever chemicals’ phased out of firefighting foam for more than 20 years
3M will pay up to $7.35 billion to settle lawsuits from as many as 120,000 people who say groundwater tainted ...
Collagen supplements are not a wrinkle-reducing silver bullet, but they sure cost a lot
Collagen supplements won't iron out your wrinkles, at least not in any way the evidence convincingly shows, as Alice Klein reports ...
How climate change is driving increased pesticide usage
Climate change isn’t just stressing crops — it’s giving the insects that eat them a leg up. Warmer temperatures are ...
Viewpoint: From Medicaid cuts to MAHA-backed anti-vaccine and chemical hysteria, voters reject Republicans’ science-skeptical agenda
Republicans who championed Medicaid cuts and the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement had a rough Election Day. Democrats seized ...
Cataloging the RFK Jr.-MAHA crushing midterm collapse
Tuesday's midterms were a brutal night for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s "Make America Healthy Again" (MAHA) movement, as ...
Viewpoint: “Positive eugenics”: Reviving a movement reviled and condemned for a century
Subway ads promising parents their “best baby” are a sign that eugenics has returned in a sleek, consumer-friendly form, argues ...
Ever wonder why AI can so easily be duped into manufacturing health misinformation?
Generative AI isn't just one more pipe that health misinformation flows through. It shapes every stage of the problem, from ...
Farmers are collateral damage in the PFAS “forever chemicals” crossfire. Here’s what they need to know.
Most of the PFAS — or "forever chemicals" — on Minnesota farms came from somewhere else, according to a new ...
Viewpoint: RFK Jr.’s latest foray into junk science: Even Kennedy’s hand-picked NIH director balks at appointment of crackpot mental health director
RFK Jr. has passed over a highly regarded neuroscientist to lead the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), favoring instead ...
Gene editing once viewed with suspicion by UK farmers, upwards of 90% now open to their sustainability benefits
British farmers are ready to give gene-edited crops a shot. Nearly eight in 10 (78%) say they would consider growing ...
The race to genetically engineer babies
A biotech entrepreneur has raised $30 million to launch Preventive, a public-benefit company dedicated to studying whether gene-edited babies can ...
Viewpoint: The fragile (and often bizarre) MAHA-MAGA-far left health-and-chemicals coalition is fracturing. Here’s why
The Make America Healthy Again movement rallied voters around fears of industrial chemicals, pesticides and corporate agriculture — but the ...
Making fertilizer from thin air: Bayer’s gene-editing innovation could dramatically cut chemical fertilizer use in growing food
Bayer is betting that gene editing can wean the world’s staple grains off synthetic fertilizer. As Bloomberg’s Sonja Wind reports, ...
Trump is “terminating” Biden-era rule aimed at cutting climate-warming methane emissions from oil and gas drilling
President Donald Trump says his administration is “terminating” a Biden-era rule designed to curb methane leaking from oil and gas ...
