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(NYT) – The United States is reliant on unpaid family caregivers, and millions of adult children are caring for parents who didn’t really care for them. In the early 2010s, a social-work researcher named Jooyoung Kong, now a professor at … Read More

(Undark) – Consumer devices that monitor heart rate, glucose, and sleep cycles need better validation to be clinically useful. In the 21st century, wearable monitoring has followed two paths: one that includes medical-grade devices, which are designed for clinical use; … Read More

(Nature) – Influencers and ultra-rich people looking to extend their lifespan are trading tips and tricks on how to eke out extra years. Nir Barzilai, president of the Academy of Geroscience and a genetics researcher at Albert Einstein College of … Read More

(NYT) – The oldest known cases, discovered among hunter-gatherers in Siberian graves, contradict the theory that the disease once was mild. In ancient Siberian graves, scientists have discovered the oldest traces of one of humanity’s greatest enemies. Examining skeletons of … Read More

(NYT) – Surveys of over half a million Americans from the last decade and a half revealed an uncomfortable truth: Despite its advantages, remote work has significantly deepened Americans’ isolation and distress. Our estimates, published in Science this month with … Read More

(NBC News) – Tiffany Score and Steven Mills reached a custody agreement with the little girl’s biological parents, court records show. In a court filing Friday, Mara Hatfield, Score and Mills’ attorney, wrote that her clients and Patient 004 had … Read More

(The Atlantic) – It’s sin. For the past few years, I’ve been troubled by a word, and that word is sin. I keep reaching for it, because it seems to be the only term strong enough to describe the new … Read More

(AFP via Yahoo!) – Rising temperatures caused by human-driven global warming have given mosquitoes — and the many pathogens they spread — “an increasingly vast playing field,” she warned. According to the World Health Organization, 80 percent of the world’s … Read More

(Washington Post) – A new study pinpoints how many minutes per week of strength training might help people avoid death from conditions including heart attacks and Alzheimer’s. The links were especially strong for cardiovascular disease and neurological conditions. The data … Read More

(Washington Post) – A new study finds the vaccine was linked with nearly 40 percent lower risk of events like heart attack and stroke The coronavirus vaccine reduced the risk of major cardiovascular events linked to covid-19 — strokes, heart … Read More

(New Scientist) – IVF could be done inside the body using a revolutionary technique that reduces the invasiveness of the traditional fertility treatment Embryos have been formed from sperm that have been made magnetic to allow remote guidance towards an … Read More

(Futurism) – Humanoid robots are, by definition, pretty extreme. Requiring top-of-the-line batteries, a high-degree of mobility, and a very accurate visual interface, there are few more instantly-recognizable feats of human engineering. It makes sense, then, that one of their main … Read More

(The Dispatch) – Since doctors told Sasse six months ago that he had three to four months left to live due to Stage IV metastatic pancreatic cancer, the former senator and college president has become something of an expert on … Read More

(Wired) – Devices that monitor seniors for safety are appealing to worried loved ones and underresourced home care agencies. My dad was initially resistant to Sensi because of his own privacy concerns—who can blame him?—but after a little cajoling from … Read More

(404 Media) – A tiny snippet of user-generated text as short as 13 words long is often enough to manipulate the AI agents that power tools like ChatGPT and Google’s AI search, new research shows. The study suggests that it … Read More

(Nature) – The device has helped a man with motor neuron disease communicate and control his computer for nearly two years. The brain–computer interface (BCI) has given 48-year-old study participant Casey Harrell, who was diagnosed with a type of motor … Read More

(Wired) – A decade ago, kratom advocates fought a surprisingly successful campaign against a proposed Drug Enforcement Administration ban that claimed the obscure Southeast Asian plant posed “an imminent hazard to public safety.” They won bipartisan allies from Bernie Sanders … Read More

(Wired) – A joint congressional report describes a spam operation that turned tens of thousands of fake podcasts into search-engine bait for illegal pharmacy and scam sites. For the past year, Spotify has been quietly purging tens of thousands of … Read More

(NYT) – In the age of A.I., Hany Farid is struggling to prove what’s real before the internet decides for itself. For more than two decades, Farid, 60, had been the world’s leading expert in the field of digital forensics, … Read More

(News 18) – A Gurugram couple’s IVF journey took an unexpected turn after DNA tests allegedly showed no biological link between them and their twins, prompting strong reactions online The incident involves a couple who claim that DNA tests revealed … Read More