2025-06-04

How One Keto Trial Set Off a New War in the Nutrition World

A study claimed that people who eat high-fat, low-carb diets weren’t seeing their arteries fill up with plaque, despite having high levels of blood cholesterol. Critics disagreed—and all hell brok [...]

2025-06-04

Are Dead Sea Scrolls older than we thought?

Combining radiocarbon dating and a new AI program called Enoch yields surprising results. [...]

2025-06-04

Science PhDs face a challenging and uncertain future

Smaller post-grad classes are likely due to research budget cuts. [...]

2025-06-04

US science is being wrecked, and its leadership is fighting the last war

Facing an extreme budget, the National Academies hosted an event that ignored it. [...]

2025-06-03

The FDA rolls out its own AI to speed up clinical reviews and scientific evaluations

The FDA has launched the generative AI tool, Elsa, agency-wide to help its employees with everything from clinical reviews to investigations. Sure, we're living in a time of widespread disinforma [...]

2025-06-03

Milky Way galaxy might not collide with Andromeda after all

Astronomers ran 100,000 computer simulations using combined Hubble/Gaia space telescope data. [...]

2025-06-03

12 thoughts about that Doctor Who finale

Spoilers for “The Reality War.”<br /> The BBC and Disney chose not to share screeners ahead of “The Reality War” to preserve its numerous twists. There isn’t time to review it in the u [...]

2025-06-03

Astronomers Have Detected a Galaxy Millions of Years Older Than Any Previously Observed

Researchers estimate that MoM z14 was created 280 million years after the Big Bang, 10 million years earlier than the previous most primitive galaxy recorded. [...]

2025-06-02

Analysis: Trump’s “Gold Standard Science” is already wearing thin

FDA head uses great-sounding science standards to dismiss COVID vaccine benefits. [...]