Christopher Murray, an epidemiologist at the University of Washington who runs the Global Burden of Disease study at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, says healthy life expectancy will keep rising through 2100 — but that progress is now shadowed by two threats his Lancet Commission work flags as capable of ending humanity outright: … Read more
By using a high-throughput CRISPR-based technique, his team can now map thousands of genes simultaneously to reveal the mechanisms behind treatment-resistant acute myeloid leukemia. Molecular screening at Saint-Louis Hospital For decades, researchers struggled to identify the specific genetic mutations driving various blood cancers. While the discovery of gene fusion in promyelocytic leukemia in the 1990s … Read more
Karlee Monster posted a video from her bathroom in November 2025, kicking off a digital storm that made her the first publicly known transgender person in France to speak openly about regretting gender-confirmation surgery. With damp hair, purple eye bags, and facial tattoos visible in selfie mode, she told millions of viewers that after a … Read more
Modern human origins are no longer traced to a single African Eden, according to recent archaeological and genetic findings published in international scientific journals. Decades of fossil excavations and ancient genome mapping show that Homo sapiens emerged from a complex network of evolving populations rather than a single linear migration. For a century, standard scientific … Read more
French epidemiologist and public health doctor Thibault Fiolet published a book titled La nutrition sans intox through Vuibert and Inserm, targeting widespread nutritional misinformation found across the internet and social media platforms. Restrictive Diets and Herbal Supplements Restrictive eating patterns represent the most problematic misinformation in current nutrition discourse, according to Thibault Fiolet. These include … Read more
Adam Kirsch, an editor at The Atlantic, rejects the core premises of ufology and warns that modern belief in extraterrestrial visitations reflects a deeper erosion of trust in public institutions. In a wide-ranging discussion published by Lexpress.fr, Kirsch analyzes his book We Want to Believe, pointing out that despite decades of cultural fascination, government disclosures, … Read more
Artificial intelligence accelerates biomedical research while narrowing the scope of scientific exploration, according to a recent analysis of 41 million research papers published in Nature and highlighted by immunologist Eric Vivier. Researchers integrating AI into their workflows publish three times more articles, gather five times more citations, and secure leadership roles a year and a … Read more
In the United States, public sentiment toward assisted reproductive technology (ART) is shifting despite a steady increase in the actual use of these medical procedures. While the number of in vitro fertilization (IVF) cycles and egg freezing procedures continues to grow, data from the Kinsey Institute’s annual “Singles in America” study indicates a sharp decline … Read more
Nazi Germany’s wartime nuclear research program never came close to producing an operational atomic weapon or even a self-sustaining nuclear reactor, according to a study published this week in PNAS Nexus. Researchers examining authentic uranium cubes from the regime’s final laboratory in Haigerloch, Germany, established that the experimental B8 reactor operated with a neutron multiplication … Read more
Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei announced on X that his company’s Claude model discovered a new molecular machine that could potentially represent a novel gene-editing mechanism, sparking fierce debate across the microbiology community. While Anthropic frames the finding as a breakthrough for artificial intelligence in life sciences, researchers at the Institut Pasteur and independent laboratories … Read more