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Beware 'deepfakes' of famous doctors promoting scams: experts
Social media is being flooded by digitally created "deepfake" videos using the trusted identities of famous doctors to promote dangerous miracle cures for serious health problems, experts warn.Videos...
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The stone-eaters that threaten Iran's ancient Persepolis
Conservationists at Persepolis, Iran's most iconic ancient site, are waging a delicate battle against an unlikely adversary: tiny but persistent lichens eroding the millennia-old monuments.The fight,...
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'Disappeared completely': melting glaciers worry Central Asia
Near a wooden hut high up in the Kyrgyz mountains, scientist Gulbara Omorova walked to a pile of grey rocks, reminiscing how the same spot was a glacier just a few years ago.At an altitude of 4,000...
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Brazil's farmers fret over fires and drought
Sugarcane farmer Marcos Meloni is still haunted by his battle last month to fight the flames on his land, as the double-edged disaster of fires and drought hits Brazil's agricultural sector hard."The...
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Scientific American magazine backs Harris with second endorsement in 179-year...
Scientific American magazine has endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris. It's only the second time the magazine has backed a presidential candidate in its 179-year history.In an...
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Federal regulators are now investigating RFK Jr.'s bizarre beheading of dead...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is under investigation by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration after a bizarre comment about beheading a dead whale that washed up on a beach, CNN reported. While...
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Can AI talk us out of conspiracy theory rabbit holes?
New research published in Science shows that for some people who believe in conspiracy theories, a fact-based conversation with an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot can “pull them out of the rabbit...
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Hidden craters reveal Earth may once have had a ring – like Saturn
The rings of Saturn are some of the most famous and spectacular objects in the Solar System. Earth may once have had something similar.In a paper published last week in Earth & Planetary Science...
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'Virus hunters' track threats to head off next pandemic
A global network of doctors and laboratories is working to pinpoint emerging viral threats, including many driven by climate change, in a bid to head off the world's next pandemic.The coalition of...
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'I'm not even sure he can spell IVF': Tammy Duckworth doubts Trump on...
Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) blamed former President Donald Trump for undermining families' access to in vitro fertilization (IVF).At a press conference on Tuesday, Duckworth promoted a bill that would...
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Over 3,600 food packaging chemicals found in human bodies
More than 3,600 chemicals used in food packaging or preparation have been detected in human bodies, some of which are hazardous to health, while little is known about others, a study said...
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Baleen whales are among the biggest creatures on Earth – new secrets about...
People often think of all whales as giants of the sea when in fact they vary in size dramatically, from the 30-meter blue whale to the two-meter dwarf sperm whale. However, almost all of the largest...
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Cosmology is at a tipping point – we may be on the verge of discovering new...
For the past few years, a series of controversies have rocked the well-established field of cosmology. In a nutshell, the predictions of the standard model of the universe appear to be at odds with...
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New migraine drugs no better than cheap painkillers: big study
New, more expensive migraine drugs are no more effective against the throbbing headaches than traditional painkillers, and even performed worse than an older range of treatments called triptans, said...
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Amazon drought leaves Colombian border town high and dry
Extreme drought affecting large parts of South America has dramatically reduced the flow of the Amazon River where Colombia borders Peru and Brazil, choking food supplies and threatening residents'...
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The winding, fitful path to weight loss drug Ozempic
Half a century of advancements in biomedical science paved the way for today's powerful weight-loss drugs like Ozempic -- so what was that journey like for the scientists involved?Joel Habener of...
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New study reinforces theory COVID emerged at Chinese market
A study on the origin of Covid-19 provided new evidence on Thursday supporting the theory that humans first caught the virus from infected animals at a Chinese market in late 2019.Nearly five years...
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Revolution or mirage? Controversy surrounds new Alzheimer's drugs
Two new drugs, the first capable of slowing down the debilitating progression of Alzheimer's disease, have become embroiled in one of the biggest medical controversies in recent years.For their...
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Study finds levels of a dangerous gas 'off the scales' in Central Texas oilfield
"Study finds levels of a dangerous gas “off the scales” in Central Texas oilfield" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and...
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Trump claims COVID-19 started when 'dust flew in from China'
Former President Donald Trump blamed COVID-19 on "dust" that "flew in from China." In an interview that aired on Sunday, Heritage Foundation-funded journalist Sharyl Attkisson asked Trump about how...
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