J. Craig Venter, Who Raced the Government to Decode the Human Genome, Dies at 79
Venter's private Celera assault on the public Human Genome Project rewrote how big science gets done; he died Wednesday at his La Jolla home.
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The Forest Service Shutters Fifty-Seven Wildfire Research Labs as Burn Risk Climbs
The Forest Service is closing fifty-seven research facilities including a Pacific Northwest lab tracking warming-climate ecological change, the same week the Pineland fire passes 32,000 acres.
AI Chatbots Walked Scientists Through Building Biological Weapons
Researchers got commercial chatbots to describe pathogen assembly and dispersal in transcripts that have no named federal owner inside HHS-Kennedy.
The CDC Vaccine Skeptic Now on the New Leadership Team
Dr. Sara Brenner, an FDA official who has urged people not to reflexively believe in vaccine benefits, was named to the new CDC leadership team Thursday.
Trump Approves Two Billion to Shut Down Offshore Wind Projects
The administration authorized roughly $1.95 billion in payouts to terminate offshore wind contracts the previous administration had signed.
Idaho's Bird-Flu Dairy Quarantine Holds at Seventeen as Moderna Starts an mRNA Trial Without Federal Money
A drug company started a Phase 1/2 H5N1 mRNA trial at its own expense after HHS canceled the federal funding for it.
Backyard-Chicken Salmonella Sickens Thirty-Four People in Thirteen States
The CDC traced 34 antibiotic-resistant salmonella infections to backyard chicks bought through hatcheries — a homestead-poultry boom now has a federal consumer warning.
Raw-Milk Legalization Spreads Faster Than the Outbreaks Can Be Tracked
More state houses are passing raw-milk laws this year than at any point since the 1980s, even as H5N1 contaminates dairy herds in 18 states.
An Oxford Scan Picks Up Endometriosis That Standard Imaging Misses
A pilot study at Oxford correctly identified endometriosis in 14 of 17 surgically confirmed cases — an average diagnostic wait of nine years could shrink to weeks.
Scientists Map the Nose's Long-Lost Smell Atlas
Two new studies show the human nose's smell receptors sit in a precise spatial pattern, ending four decades of assuming they were scattered.
Brain Scans Find Three ADHD Subtypes, Including a More Extreme One
A 1,154-child imaging study identifies three biologically distinct ADHD subtypes — and the most severe is defined by meltdowns, not inattention.
AI Finds Hidden Sperm in Men Once Told They Were Infertile
A Columbia AI imaging tool recovered eight sperm cells from a man with Klinefelter syndrome — and a baby boy is due in July.
Pancreatic Cancer Trials Are Finally Stirring Hope
Two clinical trials are showing real survival gains against the deadliest of the major cancers — after decades of nothing working.
Psychedelic Retreats Boom Without Safety Guardrails
Ayahuasca and mushroom retreats are a fast-growing wellness segment with almost no regulation — and the deaths are no longer hypothetical.
Do Weighted Vests Actually Get You in Shape Faster
TikTok's spring fitness craze has a real but narrow upside — bone density and walking economy — and a real downside if you skip the load progression.
The Argentine Teens Who Identify as Animals on TikTok
A viral wave of Argentine teenagers calling themselves therians is now visible enough to draw psychiatric and educational comment — and the framing matters.
Tourists Are Swimming With Killer Whales, and Conservationists Are Watching
Only Norway and New Zealand let tourists in the water with orcas — and the operators, the whales, and the regulators are not all on the same page.
Fatou, the Berlin Zoo Gorilla, Turns Sixty-Nine
The world's oldest gorilla in captivity got a fruit basket and a whisper of celebrity at Berlin Zoo on a quiet Wednesday.
Isle Royale's Wolves Thrive on Moose, Decades After the Crash
The annual Isle Royale survey reports the wolf packs are healthy, hunting moose successfully, and bear no resemblance to the near-extinction of the early 2010s.
A Million Bees Spilled on a Tennessee Highway Ramp
A truck overturned outside Nashville, releasing roughly a million honeybees and turning a highway ramp into a beekeeper-and-hazmat scene for hours.
Peter Raven, Botanist Who Warned of the Sixth Extinction, Dies at Eighty-Nine
He turned the Missouri Botanical Garden into a global field office for tracking what was disappearing, and he kept score in plain language.
Lester Wright, Who Sprinted Into the World Record at One Hundred, Dies at One Hundred Three
He ran the hundred at one hundred in twenty-six and a half seconds, and he kept running a few more years for the company.
Roger Sweet, Who Designed He-Man and Sold Masculinity to a Generation, Dies at Ninety-One
He glued a Big Jim figure into a battle pose, plastered three prototypes, and pitched Mattel a barbarian who would outlast the studios that filmed him.
Reclamation Section 6E Litigation Still Silent on Day Two
Two days after the first 6E invocation in the clause's life, no upper-basin or lower-basin filing has surfaced — the precedent stands without a challenger.
The WashU Loneliness Study Still Has No Federal Answer on Day Twelve
Twelve days into a study that names nearly half of young adults as lonely, no HHS office has named the program lane that owns it.
NICE and Cochrane's Day Two Still Has No Eisai or Lilly Statement
Two days after the consultation closed with the Cochrane review on the table, neither manufacturer has answered the methodology fight in public.