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The billionaire philanthropist talks about how the fight for global health lost steam — and how to get it back.
The billionaire philanthropist talks about how the fight for global health lost steam — and how to get it back.
Kidney donors save lives. Why aren’t we compensated for it?
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The safety paradox at the heart of OpenAI’s “Strawberry” model.
Scientists are trapped in an endless loop of grant applications. How can we set them free?
Factory-built housing, ADUs, and community land trusts — all at once.
Why the new luxury is flip phones and vinyl LPs
561 research papers in, the case for degrowth is still weak.
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Introducing Your Mileage May Vary, an unconventional new advice column.
ChatGPT didn’t write this and I can prove it.
From granola bars to chips, more studies are revealing that UPFs are tied to diseases like cancer and depression.
Too much fluoride might lower IQ in kids, a new federal report says. The science (and debate), explained.
EVs help reduce greenhouse emissions. But too many used gas-guzzlers could make that impossible.
The US military’s recruiting crisis, explained.
Gavin Newsom could decide the future of AI safety. But will he cave to billionaire pressure?
Organ companies are getting up to pancreas hijinks.
Are tech companies actually pushing AI down our throats?
California legislator Scott Wiener on why the home of the AI industry is the right place to regulate it.
Some tech leaders think SB 1047 will kill innovation. It won’t.
A new generation of drugs promised salvation from hepatitis B and C. What went wrong?
Scientific fraud kills people. Should it be illegal?
An early warning system could help fix the dangerous information gap between Big Tech and the US.
My generation was taught to change the system. That lesson came at a cost.
The case against Medicare drug price negotiations doesn’t add up.
Even OpenAI warns that chatting with an AI voice can breed “emotional reliance.”
However current companies do financially, the big AI safety challenges remain.
But there might be global consequences.
Researchers wildly underestimated how many people don’t have safe drinking water.
A first case outside of the continent has been detected in Sweden. What’s next?
While better data is needed to understand just how wide the gap is, help doesn’t have to wait.
The former president says he’ll block funding for US schools that require vaccines.
The FDA rejected MDMA-assisted therapy, lengthening an already decades-long journey to medicalize the psychedelic.
The end of psychedelic prohibition will have to wait a little while longer.
Your morality isn’t as stable as you might think.
Being an only child doesn’t mess you up for life. We promise.
Ovaries age faster than the rest of the body. Figuring out how to slow menopause might help all of us age better.