Drinking heavily over many years is linked to a higher risk of colorectal cancer, especially rectal cancer, according to new research tracking U.S. adults for two decades. People who drank heavily ...

A world in which authorities can scan sealed bottles for toxic contaminants—quickly, accurately and without damaging the ...

WASHINGTON — The Department of Veterans Affairs is launching a clinical trial on the potential benefits of using the hallucinogenic drug MDMA — commonly known as ecstasy — in therapeutic settings to ...

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) shared the results of a test to assess alcohol disorders after FBI Director Kash Patel told the lawmaker he would also submit to the test if he and the senator did them ...

After three generations, Google is apparently saying goodbye to its built-in temperature sensor on Pixel 11 Pro. 2023’s Pixel 8 Pro introduced one of Google’s first new hardware features in some time, ...

Once weekly semaglutide injections reduced alcohol consumption in patients with alcohol use disorder (AUD) and comorbid obesity. Results of the randomized controlled trial (RCT), the first, to the ...

Uber has a long-term ambition that goes well beyond shuttling passengers: The company eventually wants to outfit its human drivers’ cars with sensors to soak up real-world data for autonomous vehicle ...

A 26-week, randomized, double-blind trial in Copenhagen enrolled adults 18–70 years with AUD, BMI ≥30 kg/m², ≥6 heavy-drinking days, and AUDIT >15, assigning semaglutide vs placebo 1:1. Compared with ...

In “Project Maven,” Katrina Manson shows us how close we are to artificial intelligence picking targets and dropping bombs without human input. By Fred Kaplan Fred Kaplan, Slate’s War Stories ...