Scientists discover links between Alzheimer's disease and gut microbiota(kcl.ac.uk)

241 points by CharlesW 3 years ago | 85 comments

Coffee linked to slower biological ageing among those with severe mental illness(kcl.ac.uk)

172 points by bookofjoe 10 months ago | 94 comments

UBC engineers develop all-in-one solution to catch and destroy forever chemicals(news.ubc.ca)

7 points by givinguflac 2 years ago | 0 comments

UBC device uses wood dust to trap up to 99.9 per cent of microplastics in water(news.ubc.ca)

152 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 97 comments

Research shows that people who BS are more likely to fall for BS (2021)(uwaterloo.ca)

118 points by mgh2 2 years ago | 75 comments

Cancer pill AOH1996 shows promise in annihilating all solid tumours(innovationorigins.com)

46 points by netfortius 3 years ago | 11 comments

Decline in teen drug use continues, surprising experts(arstechnica.com)

335 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 524 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that teen drug use continued an unprecedented decline in 2024, with the pandemic-era cohort showing high rates of abstaining.

We need scientific dissidents(chronicle.com)

355 points by Georgelemental 3 years ago | 848 comments

Chronicle of Higher Education opinion essay arguing that the early artificial consensus on Covid's origins shows the need for scientific dissidents.

LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge(news.mit.edu)

336 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 121 comments

MIT News article on research showing LLMs often retrieve stored facts via simple linear functions, and a technique to probe what a model knows about subjects.

Big Pharma spends billions more on executives and stockholders than on R&D(arstechnica.com)

400 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 180 comments

Ars Technica article on a Senate report finding major drug companies spend more on executive pay and shareholder payouts than on R&D, citing patent thickets.

Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy(news.cornell.edu)

411 points by giuliomagnifico 9 months ago | 748 comments

Cornell Chronicle article on research finding that GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy are associated with reductions in Americans' grocery and food purchases.

New pancreatic cancer drug might open the door to much longer survival times(economist.com)

413 points by andsoitis 4 months ago | 143 comments

Economist article reporting that a promising pancreatic cancer drug may be the first of a new class of treatments targeting a cancer master switch.