Tom Fletcher from McFly and Amy Dowden are self-isolating; States including Idaho and Kansas report throwing away thousands of expired dosesFears for 1 million UK furloughed staff with Sunak set to end schemeNew York City’s vaccine mandate for school s…
The World’s Longest Cave System Just Got Even Longer
schwit1 shared this report from LiveScience: The world’s longest known cave system just set a new record after surveyors spent hours mapping an additional 8 miles (13 kilometers) of the passageways at Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky.
The corri…
マイクロプラスティックは、乳児の体内にも蓄積されている：研究結果
微小なプラスティック粒子であるマイクロプラスティックが乳児の体内にも蓄積されていることが、研究結果から明らかになった。乳児の使用済みおむつを調べたところ、成人の約10倍に相当する量のポリエチレンテレフタレート（PET）が見つかったという。この事実からは、さまざまな憂慮すべき問題が浮き彫りになってくる。
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Can Antimatter Be Generated in a Lab?
“An international team of physicists have come up with a way to generate antimatter in the lab,” reports Popular Mechanics, theoretically “allowing them to recreate conditions that are similar to those near a neutron star.”
This setup, at Helmholtz-Zen…
‘Psychedelics renaissance’: new wave of research puts hallucinogenics forward to treat mental health
In what’s been described as a ‘paradigm shifter’ for psychiatry, clinical trials are exploring the therapeutic use for illegal substancesIt was out of desperation that Michael Raymond found himself sitting in a remote retreat in the Peruvian Andes, sip…
A new formula may help black patients’ access to kidney care
Algorithm made it harder for Black patients to qualify for transplants, other treatments.
The great sperm heist: ‘They were playing with people’s lives’
Paul was in his 80s when someone called to say she was his daughter, conceived in a fertility clinic with his sperm. The only problem? He’d never donated anyFor 40 years, Catherine Simpson thought she knew who she was: a nurse, a mother of three, a dau…
As Florida punishes schools, study finds masks cut school COVID outbreaks 3.5X
Universal masking prevents some school outbreaks and lowers case rates.
UC Reactor Makes Martian Fuel
Engineers at the University of Cincinnati are developing new ways to convert greenhouse gases to fuel to address climate change and get astronauts home from Mars. UC: UC College of Engineering and Applied Science assistant professor Jingjie Wu and his …
A Teenager on TikTok Disrupted Thousands of Scientific Studies With a Single Video
Thousands of scientific studies had to toss out weeks of data because of a 56-second TikTok video by a teenager. From a report: The July 23rd video is short and simple. It opens with recent Florida high school graduate and self-described “teen author” …