Technology

Why Is There So Much Off-Brand Oral Ozempic for Sale Online?

GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic are injectable medications—but a strange new market has emerged selling oral “compounded” versions online,...

You Can Now Buy Lab-Grown Foie Gras

A lab-grown alternative to fattened duck liver offers a controversial future for the cultivated meat industry: as a luxury product...

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Scientists Establish the Best Algorithm for Traversing...

Dijkstra’s algorithm was long thought to be the most efficient way to find a graph’s best routes. Researchers have now proven that...

These Rats Learned to Drive—and They Love It

Driving represented an interesting way for neuroscientists to study how rodents acquire new skills, and unexpectedly, rats had an...

What Lee Zeldin’s Nomination Means for the EPA

What to expect from Donald Trump’s EPA pick: deregulation justified as boosts for the economy and platitudes about the importance...

Standing Desks Are Better for Your Health—but Still Not...

Two recent studies offer some of the most nuanced evidence yet about the potential benefits and risks of working on your feet.

How to Design a Real-Life Hot Wheels Loop

You should absolutely not build this thing. But it’s still fun to think through the physics.

The First Crispr Treatment Is Making Its Way to Patients

It’s been a year since the gene-editing treatment Casgevy was approved for sickle cell disease and a related blood disorder. It’s...

Scientists Have Pushed the Schrödinger’s Cat Paradox to...

A research team in China has held atoms in a state of quantum superposition for 23 minutes, suggesting tantalizing new possibilities...

Researchers Give Animal Cells the Ability to Photosynthesize...

A Japanese team has developed a technique to insert chloroplasts isolated from algae into animal cells, a feat that could revolutionize...