Credit: CC0 Public Domain It’s quite unsettling to discover something so central to our cultural rituals—the “slop” in the Aussie mantra of “Slip! Slop! Slap!“—can no longer be trusted. We’ve…
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Detailed atlas reveals how pesticides affect gut bacteria and hints at probiotic interventions
Gut bacteria accumulate pesticides without altering them. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-59747-6 While emerging evidence suggests pesticides can be toxic to the mix of microorganisms in the digestive system,…
Death Isn’t the End: AI Brings Lost Voices Back to Life
Summary: A new paper explores how generative AI is transforming the way we interact with the dead, from virtual reality reunions to lifelike digital avatars. These “generative ghosts” can remember,…
Brain Injury Could Explain Sudden Criminal Behavior
Summary: A new study has found that damage to a specific white matter pathway in the brain—the right uncinate fasciculus—may increase the likelihood of criminal or violent behavior following brain…
Ketamine ‘epidemic’ among UK youth raises alarm
One 10 ml vial of 1000 mg ketamine. Credit: Psychonaught/Wikipedia The first time Barney Casserly used ketamine at a UK music festival he thought he had found “nirvana”. Five years…
Supreme Court rules that states may deny people covered by Medicaid the freedom to choose Planned Parenthood as their health care provider
Having the freedom to choose your own health care provider is something many Americans take for granted. But the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority ruled on June 25, 2025, in…
Many older people embrace vaccines. Research is proving them right
Credit: Kampus Production from Pexels Kim Beckham, an insurance agent in Victoria, Texas, had seen friends suffer so badly from shingles that she wanted to receive the first approved shingles…
Toxic algae blooms are lasting longer in Lake Erie − why that’s a worry for people and pets
Federal scientists released their annual forecast for Lake Erie’s harmful algal blooms on June 26, 2025, and they expect a mild to moderate season. However, anyone who comes in contact…
Chromosome imbalances disrupt mitochondrial function in cancer cells, study finds
Expression levels and cytosolic deposits of p62 are increased in polysomic cells and correlate with aneuploidy. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-60857-4 It has been known for several years that…
I’m a physician who has looked at hundreds of studies of vaccine safety, and here’s some of what RFK Jr. gets wrong
In the four months since he began serving as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made many public statements about vaccines that…
