Trump posts, then pulls bizarre AI video promoting MedBed conspiracy

2025-09-28

Donald Trump is no stranger to outlandish conspiracies or strange social media posts. But, by any measure, his post on ...

Trump’s Tylenol Directive Could Actually Increase Autism Rates, Researchers Warn

2025-09-24

For decades, the discussion around autism has been a hotbed of misinformation, misinterpretation, and bad science, ranging from the long-discredited ...

Distillation Can Make AI Models Smaller and Cheaper

2025-09-20

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a chatbot earlier this ...

RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Panel Votes Down Its Own Proposal to Require Prescriptions for Covid-19 Shots

2025-09-19

In another vote, advisers recommended adding language on the shot’s risks to the vaccine’s information sheet, which is already required ...

The DOGE Subcommittee Hearing on Weather Modification Was a Nest of Conspiracy Theorizing

2025-09-18

The popularity of these conspiracies may also be on the rise in right-wing spaces. Some MAHA figureheads, including Nicole Shanahan, ...

Whole-Genome Sequencing Will Change Pregnancy

2025-09-15

The world of pregnancy is going to radically change, predicts Noor Siddiqui. “I think that the default way people are ...

Big Businesses Are Doing Carbon Dioxide Removal All Wrong

2025-09-14

Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and H&M are currently investing in durable CDR. A spokesperson for H&M described the fast-fashion company’s purchase of ...

How Trump’s policies are affecting early-career scientists—in their own words

2025-09-09

Some said that shifts in language won’t change the substance of their work, but others feared they will indeed affect ...

Why Former NFL All-Pros Are Turning to Psychedelics

2025-09-08

Roam the wide-open halls and cavernous showrooms of the Colorado Convention Center during Psychedelic Science, the world’s largest psychedelics conference, ...