Category: Science

Queensland Opens Needle-Free Vaccine Skin Patches Factory

Australia has opened the doors to a vaccine skin patch manufacturing facility in hopes to reduce the complexities and costs associated with existing vaccines and be better position the country for future pandemics. Situated in Brisbane’s riverside suburb of Hamilton, biotechnology company Vaxxas expects to manufacture and distribute the first commercially available vaccine patches within…


LIVE NOW: Biden Speaks on Artificial Intelligence in San Francisco

President Joe Biden discusses his administration’s commitment to seizing the opportunities and managing the risks of Artificial Intelligence at 4:00 p.m. ET in San Francisco on June 20. …


Biden Speaks on Artificial Intelligence in San Francisco

President Joe Biden discusses his administration’s commitment to seizing the opportunities and managing the risks of Artificial Intelligence at 4:00 p.m. ET in San Francisco on June 20. …


LIVE 4 PM ET: Biden Speaks on Artificial Intelligence in San Francisco

President Joe Biden discusses his administration’s commitment to seizing the opportunities and managing the risks of Artificial Intelligence at 4:00 p.m. ET in San Francisco on June 20. …


The First Step in Running More

Slow down. Most people who feel stuck at a certain level of running are simply running too many of their runs too fast. Try this thought experiment: Let’s say you want to tack on an additional 15 minutes to most of your daily runs. Would you be able to do so by doing your normal…


Alarming Trend: Rising Cancer Rates Among People Under 50

While cancer is a disease that most commonly affects people over 50 years old, a joint U.S.-UK cancer funding review found that over the past 30 years, there has been a rise in cancer rates among people under 50 in multiple countries. “From our data, we observed something called the birth cohort effect,” Dr. Shuji Ogino,…


AI ‘Bias and Prejudice’ Is the Theme at Upcoming Biden Meeting in Silicon Valley

President Joe Biden will meet with activists, academics, and tech executives on June 20 to discuss artificial intelligence. The latest of many recent Biden AI moves, it’s another signal of his administration’s continued focus on race and “algorithmic discrimination” in its attempts to control the evolution of the burgeoning technology. In a June 19 statement…


Study Reveals 33 Percent of Health Foods Contain Incorrect Information

Many sports foods—powders, bars and snacks, and ready-made shakes—sold in grocery stores, pharmacies, and health food stores are marketed as being healthy food for an active lifestyle, but they may not be as nutritious as they claim to be, with approximately a third being mislabelled, an in-depth investigation by Australian researchers has found. PhD candidate…


One in Three ‘Health’ Foods Contain Misleading Claims

Many sports foods—powders, bars, and ready-made shakes—sold in grocery stores, pharmacies, and health food stores are marketed as being healthy food for an active lifestyle, but they may not be as nutritious as they claim to be, with approximately a third being mislabelled, an in-depth investigation by Australian researchers has found. PhD candidate Celeste Chapple…


Appeals Court Hands Maine Lobstermen Major Victory in Whale Protection Case

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) overstepped its authority with a plan for lobstermen to reduce the lines they place in the water by 98 percent within ten years. “It’s a huge win,” eighth-generation lobsterman Jason Joyce of Swans Island, Maine, told…