Live Science

'That's why there's 9 billion of us and not 9 billion of some other primate': Why our ability to adapt is humanity's 'superpower'

Live Science spoke with Herman Pontzer, an evolutionary anthropologist and author of the book "Adaptable," about the science of human diversity.

How Ryan Gosling Ascends to Tom Hanks-Level Movie Stardom in ‘Project Hail Mary’

Project Hail Mary' directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller on working with Ryan Gosling, the lessons of 'Solo' and status of the Spider-Verse.

Large-scale look at the exposome shows combined environmental exposures rival genetics in shaping human health outcomes

For decades, scientists have been carefully unraveling the role of genes in disease by examining how small variations in a person's genetic code can shape lifelong risk of developing common conditions ...
STAT

Jeffrey Epstein’s tissue samples ignited a furor in the Harvard lab of George Church

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...
TheWrap

‘Project Hail Mary’ Directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller Explain — and Experience — the Film’s Different Theater Formats | Video

“Project Hail Mary” directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller just broke down the various theater formats their film can be watched in — while experiencing each one themselves. In a 7-minute clip ...
Science Daily

The human exposome could change everything we know about disease

Scientists are launching an ambitious global effort to map the “human exposome” — the lifelong mix of environmental and chemical exposures that drive most diseases. Backed by new partnerships with ...
The Economist

The Human Exposome Project will map how environmental factors shape health

IF TIMING IS everything, then Thomas Hartung picked a bad moment to make his move. Dr Hartung is an environmental toxicologist at Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, who has spent his career ...
Forbes

Puerto Rican Pitorro Explained: Styles, Brands, Tasting Notes.

A glass of pitorro Blanco with lime on the rocks. Pitorrois Puerto Rico's indigenous moonshine and is a traditional Christmas drink. Pitorro, also called cañita, is Puerto Rico’s original “moonshine”: ...
The Conversation

RNA is key to the dark matter of the genome − scientists are sequencing it to illuminate human health and disease

Marlene Belfort does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
Android Police

The NotebookLM hack that turned my messy notes into a real project

Dhruv Bhutani has been writing about consumer technology since 2008, offering deep insights into the Android smartphone landscape through features and opinion pieces. He joined Android Police in 2023, ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Google Researchers Say Their New A.I. Tool AlphaGenome Can Help Decode the Human Genetic Instruction Book

The human genome is made up of about three billion pairs of DNA units called nucleotides. Olena_T via Getty Images Scientists at Google DeepMind—the company’s artificial intelligence research arm—say ...
Gizmodo

DeepMind’s New AI Can Read a Million DNA Letters at Once—and Actually Understand Them

Artificial intelligence has gotten a bad reputation lately, and often for good reason. But a team of scientists at Google’s DeepMind now claims to have found a revolutionary use case for AI: helping ...