Silvio Berlusconi, a Showman Who Upended Italian Politics and Culture Dies at 86(nytimes.com)

43 points by kensai 3 years ago | 43 comments

A.I. Companies Agree to Safeguards After Pressure from the White House(nytimes.com)

49 points by insane_dreamer 3 years ago | 38 comments

The end of the magic world’s 50-year grudge(nytimes.com)

48 points by CharlesW 3 years ago | 82 comments

Space material found on a beach in Western Australia(nytimes.com)

56 points by eigenhombre 3 years ago | 15 comments

Harry Frankfurt has died(nytimes.com)

108 points by dredmorbius 3 years ago | 19 comments

Ian Hacking has died(nytimes.com)

116 points by furcyd 3 years ago | 8 comments

Gene therapy restores hearing to children with inherited deafness(cosmosmagazine.com)

473 points by keploy 2 years ago | 194 comments

Cosmos Magazine article reporting that a gene therapy restored hearing in children born with inherited deafness.

Gene therapy restored hearing in deaf patients(news.ki.se)

336 points by justacrow 1 year ago | 80 comments

Karolinska Institutet news article reporting that a gene therapy restored hearing in patients with congenital deafness.

Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment(nytimes.com)

1122 points by jbredeche 1 year ago | 470 comments

New York Times article about a baby treated with the first personalized gene-editing therapy for a rare genetic disorder.

A teen was suicidal. ChatGPT was the friend he confided in(nytimes.com)

338 points by jaredwiener 1 year ago | 396 comments

New York Times article about a suicidal teenager who confided in ChatGPT; the capture shows only a CAPTCHA human-verification page.

Tinnitus linked to undetected auditory nerve damage(scitechdaily.com)

750 points by beefman 2 years ago | 401 comments

SciTechDaily article reporting Mass Eye and Ear research linking tinnitus to hidden auditory nerve damage undetected by standard hearing tests.

Scientist treated her own cancer with viruses she grew in the lab(nature.com)

570 points by dataminer 1 year ago | 198 comments

Nature news article about virologist Beata Halassy, who treated her own breast cancer with lab-grown oncolytic viruses, and researchers' warnings against copying her.