On March 14th, 2026 with 49 comments
Last June Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller said in a statement that Texans "have a God-given right to know what's on their plate, and for millions of...
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On March 10th, 2026 with 255 comments
Since 1999, Slashdot has been covering the annual Ig Nobel prize ceremonies -- which honor real scientific research into strange or surprising subjects. "After...
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On January 23rd, 2026 with 307 comments
The United States formally withdrew from the World Health Organization on Thursday, making good on an executive order that President Trump issued on his first...
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On December 31st, 2025 with 96 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: For a while, it seemed the notion that light drinking was good for the heart had gone by the...
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On November 19th, 2025 with 297 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: Federal health officials have linked two massive US measles outbreaks, confirming that the country is about two months...
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On September 2nd, 2025 with 133 comments
A group of more than 85 scientists have issued a joint rebuttal to a recent U.S. Department of Energy report about climate change, finding it full of errors...
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On August 24th, 2025 with 22 comments
The mysterious X-37B space-plane — the U.S. military's orbital test vehicle — "serves partly as a platform for cutting-edge experiments," writes...
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On July 24th, 2025 with 110 comments
A Chinese inventor with no medical training is charging cancer patients $20,000 to inject highly concentrated chlorine dioxide -- a toxic bleach solution --...
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On July 23rd, 2025 with 118 comments
The United States will withdraw from UNESCO for the second time in eight years, with the departure taking effect December 31, 2026. The State Department...
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On July 10th, 2025 with 43 comments
Senators from both parties are preparing to challenge the Trump administration's proposed 24% cut to NASA's budget, with the Senate appropriations committee...
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On July 8th, 2025 with 85 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The herbicide ingredient used to replace glyphosate in Roundup and other weedkiller products can kill...
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On July 3rd, 2025 with 43 comments
Beeftopia shares a report from CBS News: The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and dump them out of airplanes over Mexico and southern...
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On July 3rd, 2025 with 273 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: A generation of scientific talent is at the brink of being lost to overseas competitors by the Trump administration's...
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On July 3rd, 2025 with 99 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: The US government canceled several federal agencies' subscription to Nature and other scientific journals. A spokesman for...
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On July 1st, 2025 with 36 comments
Starting today, researchers funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) will be required to make their scientific papers available to read for free as...
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On June 26th, 2025 with 38 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Neuroscience News Science Magazine: Surgeons have performed the first fully robotic heart transplant in the U.S.,...
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On May 27th, 2025 with 181 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: More than 2% of Americans are taking the blockbuster class of GLP-1 drugs for overweight or obesity, up nearly 600% over...
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On May 16th, 2025 with 28 comments
MIT said Friday it can no longer stand behind a widely circulated paper on AI written by a doctoral student in its economics program. The paper said that the...
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On May 11th, 2025 with 12 comments
18 years ago Slashdot covered the creation of Spaceport America.
Today Space.com hails it as "the first purpose-built commercial spaceport in the world." But...
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On May 2nd, 2025 with 74 comments
The FDA has approved gene-edited pigs for human consumption, potentially marking the first major commercial application of CRISPR technology in the food chain....
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On April 27th, 2025 with 71 comments
A new DARPA project called expMath "aims to jumpstart math innovation with the help of AI," writes The Register. America's "Defense Advanced Research...
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On April 26th, 2025 with 45 comments
Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from the BBC: China will let scientists from six countries, including the U.S., examine the rocks it collected...
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On April 24th, 2025 with 117 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Air in the U.S. has gotten cleaner for decades, adding years to people's lives and preventing millions of asthma...
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On April 7th, 2025 with 302 comments
Scientists "demonstrated a promising step toward using a person's own immune cells to fight gastrointestinal cancers" at America's National Institutes of...
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On March 28th, 2025 with 48 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: New data recently released by the Environmental Protection Agency indicate that more than 158 million people across the...
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On March 28th, 2025 with 298 comments
A Nature survey has found that three-quarters of responding U.S. scientists are considering leaving the nation following disruptions to science under the Trump...
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On February 22nd, 2025 with 46 comments
The U.S. Space Force released the first-ever public image of its secretive X-37B space plane in orbit, captured during its ongoing seventh mission that...
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On February 7th, 2025 with 8 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: Hospital Sisters Health System notified over 882,000 patients that an August 2023 cyberattack led to...
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On January 18th, 2025 with 87 comments
America's Federal Trade Commission has been "raising antitrust concerns" about them for years, reports NBC News.
The latest? America's three largest drug...
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On December 18th, 2024 with 83 comments
The CDC has confirmed the first case of severe bird flu in the United States. NPR reports: Louisiana health officials initially reported the infection last...
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