Abstracts: Gut Science, Bison, and More

• Recent years have revealed just how important a healthy gut is to a healthy body — but is the field of gut research biased towards Westerners? (FiveThirtyEight)

• A growing community in Punta Allen, Mexico, was established with the aim of creating a sustainable lobster fishery — and since 1969, it has never over-harvested. (Hakai Magazine)

Two contradictory reports from the WHO about Roundup, an herbicide, are causing confusion over whether it is a carcinogen. (Visual by Pixabay)

• According to a new UN-WHO report, the chemical in the weed killer Roundup doesn’t cause cancer. Yet last year, a study from a different WHO group said it does. Which is true? (Wired)

• Yellowstone National Park issued a warning for tourists to keep their distance from wildlife after a baby bison, picked up by tourists and loaded into their SUV, had to be euthanized after being rejected by its herd and becoming too familiar with cars. (Washington Post)

• Naturopaths, who use alternative medicines to treat a host of health woes, are pushing for more authority in the U.S., with support from vitamin companies. (STAT)

• As one delta dies, another is born: the story of the Wax Lake River Delta, which has been expanding since 1973, even as the famous Mississippi River Delta dries up. (Nautilus)

• The deaths of thousands of marine animals in Chile may have its roots in dirty fish farming practices. (National Geographic)

• And finally, an artificial intelligence program in Australia successfully learned and recreated the experiment that produces the Bose-Einstein condensate, which won the Nobel Prize in 2001. (TechCrunch)