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A landmark National Academies report finds synthetic cells pose no wholly new risks, but calls for coordinated, adaptive federal governance of these life-blurring biotechnologies.
Rejections rose 67 percent over six years. After a denial, almost half of patients received no drug in the same therapeutic class within 90 days.
Most US police de-escalation training has never been rigorously tested on actual use of force. Of dozens of programs adopted nationwide, only two show solid evidence of reducing force.
A Hudson Institute report says America should treat rival kleptocracies as strategic targets, exposing corruption to weaken regimes from China to Venezuela.
Brain condition challenges David Hume’s claim that abstract thought depends on mental images, forcing philosophers to reconsider how minds handle ideas like justice and geometry.
People testing AI chatbots trained on the dead preferred emotional “reincarnation” over accuracy, while warning the technology could deepen grief.
Why do identical orchard oaks yield black truffles in one spot and nothing nearby? New soil research points to hidden microbial differences.
A preclinical DNA shot turned mouse muscle into a long-lasting GLP-1 source, outperforming daily semaglutide in early tests.
Graduate school is America’s main pipeline for recruiting foreign scientists, but that door is narrowing. A Peterson Institute brief warns the economic cost could reach $481 billion a year.
Sixty years of income data complicate the usual generational story. The bigger shift came when the two-earner household stopped delivering the same boost.
A NIST study found home gut microbiome tests can give conflicting answers from the same sample. The problem may lie in the tests themselves.
Platforms remove fake nudes faster under copyright rules than abuse reports. A CHI 2026 study says reporting systems can deepen victims’ trauma.