This ia an article in the business NYT about ResearchGate, which is a science "social medium" in which scientists and researchers can have "followers" like on FB or Twitter, etc. ResearchGate is actually a company backed by venture capital investors that allows scientists to update followers on their research and share data. This is an example of a trend that aims to make science more transparent.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/27/health/who-bacteria-pathogens-antibiotic-resistant-superbugs.html
Another article from NYT about a WHO report about drug-resistant superbugs. Several new antibiotic resistant bacteria have been identified that potentially could prove as dangerous to human health as Zika or Ebola. It is estimated that they cause 23,000 deaths per year in America alone. A recommendation was made to deal with the worst of the superbugs first and not just rely on "market forces alone". "Market forces" seems like a curious formulation but I guess that is a way of declaring that research priorities ought to be reorganized.
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/03/how-sliced-meat-drove-human-evolution Article from Science magazine about how sliced meat drove human evolution. Although it sounds humorous and makes one think of glistening packages at ShopRite, this has more to do with the early members of genus Homo evolving smaller teeth as a result of the development of small stone flakes to cut the elastic muscles of carcasses into chewable pieces.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/01/science/earths-oldest-bacteria-fossils.html?_r=0 This is a NYT article by Carl Zimmer about bacterial fossil findings in Canada. These were found on the remote coast of Hudson Bay and may be the oldest fossils ever discovered. A geologist at the University of New South Wales called them "dubiofossils" with doubts that they had ever been part of a living organism.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/14/world/asia/inky-octopus-new-zealand-aquarium.html?_r=0 An article from the NYT about an octopus in New Zealand escaping from the aquarium by slipping through a hole in the top of its tank, sliding across the floor and going down a drainpipe into the ocean.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/drug-companies-block-shareholders-voting-on-price-transparency/ar-AAnHidX From the WSJ reported by MSN an article about drug companies blocking shareholders' votes on price transparency. Pfizer and Merck were asked to submit annual average price increases for their top-selling drugs and ten were going to omit this proposal from their proxy ballots.The SEC furthermore is not going to enforce it if the companies exclude the proposals.
http://www.philly.com/philly/health/Philly-gene-therapy-hemophilia-spark-pfizer.html This is an article from the Philadelphia Inquirer detailing the development of a "one- shot" treatment for the inherited blood disorder Hemophilia. Spark Therapeutics, an offshoot from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has developed a gene therapy made originally from the DNA of a "superclotter" which cures the disease.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/caesarean-births-could-be-affecting-evolution-180961316/ This is an article from the Smithsonian magazine about the effects on evolution of the increase in Caesarean births. 1/3 of births in the US are through C-sections.The number of babies too large to be delivered vaginally have gone up 20% since C-sections began. It's possible that this is allowing genes for bigger babies to be passed down which formerly would have been deadly.
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