We’re not as helpless against dementia as we think
I turned 48 this week, which meant it was time for my annual physical. After the usual battery of questions ...
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The next AI safety fight may actually be about DNA
AI company CEOs Sam Altman (OpenAI), Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind), and Dario Amodei (Anthropic) disagree on a lot, like how ...
The US just got its first new sunscreen in almost 30 years
For the first time in the 21st century, the United States has approved a new sunscreen ingredient. Well, new to ...
We don’t know how the Ebola outbreak started. That’s a problem.
In just 10 days over the summer of 1854, 500 people died of cholera in the Soho neighborhood of London. ...
The most hopeful cancer news in years
In a darkened convention hall in Chicago on May 31, a Harvard oncologist named Brian Wolpin stood at a podium ...
Millions of Americans are losing their health insurance
One of the clearest success stories in US healthcare over the past 20 years has been the dramatic decline in ...
An HIV-free generation is closer than you think
Ismail Harerimana grew up in Uganda not knowing why he was always sick.His childhood in the 1990s was a string ...
Flavored vapes doomed Trump’s FDA head
This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting ...
How worried should I be about hantavirus?
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The old tech that could help stop the next airborne pandemic
It’s hard to imagine modern life without glycols. They are used in cosmetics, fog machines, and food. As you read ...
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