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In a shocking twist that will surprise absolutely no one paying attention, anti-vaxxer RFK Jr's CDC appears to have sat on research showing that vaccines do, in fact, work. This is an inconvenient detail in an era where vibes are doing more policy ...

Swap one letter in a girl mouse's DNA and she grows testes. Researchers at Bar-Ilan University in Israel edited a small stretch of what scientists used to call "junk DNA," the vast majority of the genome that doesn't build proteins but tells other ...

This cute photo collection shows different cups of coffee that look like they have faces in their bubbles. This isn't human-made latte art, though. These coffee cups just happen to come with a personality. I'd consider it to be good luck if my ...

Psilocybin, LSD, mescaline, DMT, and ayahuasca have different chemical structures, different durations, different cultural histories -- and they all do the same thing to the brain. A mega-analysis published in Nature Medicine found a shared two-part ...

Turns out the problem with AI in science isn't just that it occasionally gets things wrong, it's that AI confidently invents sources that don't exist, and those fake citations are showing up in real, peer-reviewed research by the tens of thousands. -

In 1847, a doctor at Vienna General Hospital cut the maternity ward death rate from 18% to 2% by requiring handwashing in chlorinated lime solution. The medical establishment repaid him with years of ridicule and eventually committed him to an asylum ...

The Artemis II mission is slingshotting around the moon today, and the images being returned from NASA's Orion ship are exquisite. Here's just a few of the latest, showing the moon eclipsing the sun. Captured by the Artemis II crew during their lunar ...

A UK woman conceived a child after sleeping with two brothers -- identical twins -- within a four-day window. DNA testing confirmed that either man could be the biological father. Since identical twins share the same genetic sequence, no test can ...

I recently watched this funny animation by Natural Habitat Shorts featuring a jellyfish named Bennett who is stressed out at work because he has to give an important presentation. Before he heads to the boardroom, his coworker urges him, "please don ...

When I was 5 years old, I was obsessed with the childrens' cartoon series Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds, a charming anthropomorphic interpretation of Alexandre Dumas' famous novels. Fortunately for little me, the show did not depict what became ...