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29/06/2025

Unusually aggressive lone star ticks, common in the south-east, are spreading to areas previously too cold for them

25/06/2025

Robert Berman, cited in report on preservative thimerosal, says he ‘doesn’t endorse this misrepresentation of research’

23/06/2025

The Last Week Tonight host went deep on the creative bankruptcy and long-term concerns over AI images and videos flooding the internet

23/06/2025

If you would indulge me, please watch this. It exposes the sheer lunacy of much of the "fraud, waste and abuse" crap that's been spun by the Trump regime, as a pretext for trying to destroy much of the "Deep State". Idiot geniuses like Musk and his DOGE babies have ripped apart government programs in their blind pursuit of their "move fast and break things" philosophy of management (something borrowed from Silicon Valley, where it hasn't worked all that well either).

This highlights what happened at USAID. Although the regime has reversed many of the cuts to these programs, it's not restored the infrastructure and supply lines that the programs built up over the years, and that helped them provide help to people around the work in VERY EFFICIENT ways.

Like everything Trump touches, it all starts to stink to high heaven after a while.

When President Trump took office, U.S.A.I.D. was one of the first agencies to be dismantled in the name of efficiency. Amy Schoenfeld Walker, a New York Times reporter and graphics editor who has been tracking the foreign aid cuts and restorations since they began in February, shares what she’s le...

23/06/2025

Scenes from nebulas in the Milky Way and a cluster of galaxies are a teaser of how the observatory will transform astronomy, with more imagery expected later on Monday.

30/05/2025

The report, led by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was intended to address the reasons for the decline in Americans’ life expectancy.

20/04/2025

The numbers here should be taken in context. Overall it paints a picture of a chronically sick/potentially sick world, but we are learning ever day that the old definitions are not always accurate. You can, for example, be obese according to a broad standard, but still metabolically fit.

But this does paint a grim picture overall, and doesn't promise well. Kennedy, the US health leader, is correct in saying we should aim at working for better complete health, but I wish he would do what says he wants to do. Cutting back on essential services, including vital research on illnesses, won't get us where he wants to go. So far, he's been an empty vessel.

The monstrous scale of the world's obesity crisis can today be laid bare in extraordinary detail. Eye-opening analysis by DEEP DIVE shows obesity levels have snowballed 20-fold in parts of the world.

19/04/2025

Conventional accounts of the birth of quantum theory often overlook the pivotal role of one of its luminaries – and this has led to a persistent misunderstanding of what it really means, argues physicist Carlo Rovelli

17/04/2025

““Many people don’t realize how high the American quality of life is because of the competent and stable enforcement of regulations, and if that goes away a lot of lives are at risk,” said Steve Cicala, co-director of the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Project on the Economic Analysis of Regulation. “This affects airplane safety, baby formula safety, the safety of meat, vegetables and packaged foods, the water that you drink, how you get to work safely and whether you’re safe in your workplace.”

For those who think the Trump shenanigans don’t really affect you, think again.

The White House will soon move to rapidly repeal or freeze rules that affect health, food, workplace safety, transportation and more.

17/04/2025

"This is a transformational moment in the search for life beyond the solar system, where we have demonstrated that it is possible to detect biosignatures in potentially habitable planets with current facilities. We have entered the era of observational astrobiology,"

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our solar system, detecting in an alien planet's atmosphere the chemical fingerprints of gases that on Earth are produced only by biological...

11/04/2025

An investigation of the changing behaviour of a single quantum bit through time has uncovered a tantalising similarity to the geometry of three-dimensional space