Millions of people around the world are estimated to have Chagas disease, a potentially fatal, parasitic illness that can lie dormant for years after the initial infection. Some 280,000 people…
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AI Is Revolutionizing Health Care. But It Can’t Replace Your Doctor
The next time you get a blood test, X-ray, mammogram, or colonoscopy, there’s a good chance an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm will first interpret the results even before your doctor…
As RFK Jr. Unveils Health Report, Medical Leaders Press Their Own Message: Vaccines Work
This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The nation’s top health officials,…
How to Tell If Your Outdoor Air Is Safe
When George Thurston leaves his cottage in the woods of Waccabuc, N.Y., to head for work, a pollution monitor clipped to his belt—called an AirBeam—shows pristine air quality. As he…
The impacts of AI on animal advocacy
Introduction The role of artificial intelligence (AI) in our everyday lives is rapidly accelerating. Take ChatGPT: released less than three years ago, it now has over a billion weekly users,…
Trump Cracks Down on Drug Ads—but U.S. Remains an Outlier
Donald Trump is ramping up pressure on drug companies to be more transparent about the risks associated with their prescription products. In a memorandum signed on Tuesday, the President ordered…
California's first solar-covered canal is now fully online
A novel solar power project just went online in California’s Central Valley, with panels that span across canals in the vast agricultural region. The 1.6-megawatt installation, called Project Nexus ,…
Will this startup be the first to successfully scale up ocean power?
Trapping the energy of ocean waves to generate electricity has long been an enticing but notoriously difficult endeavor. The first rule of wave power startups is that they always fail.…
Labcorp, Blue Shield and my $34.95 co pay (part 5)
By MATTHEW HOLT I have been on a quest to try to understand why I am being charged $34.95 by Labcorp for some lab tests that I think should be…
Tesla just launched the Megablock, a big, easy-to-deploy grid battery
LAS VEGAS — On Monday night in a subterranean hall under the Las Vegas Convention Center, Tesla released an upgraded version of its grid-battery product that will allow developers to…