To end King Coal’s reign, must his most loyal subjects get paid?
Governments should be prepared to pay billions of pounds to operators of coal-fired power plants…
Month: July 2020
Soil animals are getting smaller with climate change
The biomass of small animals that decompose plants in the soil and thus maintain its…
STAT Plus: Lawmakers urge federal watchdog to probe government’s role in discovering remdesivir
Amid concerns over access to medicines that were hatched with U.S. taxpayer funds, Democratic lawmakers…
The amazing travels of small RNAs
Biologists have known for some time that RNA interference can silence genes in far-off cells….
Winning the digital transformation race: Three emerging approaches for leading transition
New research has outlined three new approaches that digital innovators can take to reduce the…
Search for a Cannabis High Could Lead to Nausea, Vomiting
When an otherwise healthy young person goes to the emergency room complaining of nausea, pain,…
Search for a Cannabis High Could Lead to Nausea, Vomiting
When an otherwise healthy young person goes to the emergency room complaining of nausea, pain,…
STAT+ Conversations: Ranking biotech’s top venture capital firms
Editor’s note: A live stream of the conversation will be embedded above at 1 p.m….
New to a BP of 130 over 80? Grill Can Still Be On
What you eat can affect your blood pressure. High blood pressure, hypertension, is a silent…
STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: Pharma execs nix meeting with Trump; Kodak wins big U.S. loan to fix medical supply chain
Hello, everyone, and how are you today? We are doing reasonably well, given the circumstances….
Surgeon who was suspended for performing wrong knee surgery can practise again
A consultant orthopaedic surgeon may return to unrestricted practice after being suspended for 12 months…
Behavioural, environmental, social, and systems interventions against covid-19
Covid-19 has shown the vital importance of human behaviours such as social distancing in controlling…
Doctors warned over “street benzos” linked to hospital admissions and deaths
Doctors have been warned over illicit tablets being sold as the benzodiazepines diazepam, temazepam, and…
Opinion: Quality issues may be the stumbling block in the race for contact tracing apps
The world is in a rush to find ways to fight Covid-19. This urgency makes…
Opinion: Boosting the promise — and reining in the peril — of Covid-19 preprints
There’s a common refrain in engineering: When it comes to the triple goal of “faster,…
The first U.S. Covid-19 case was found in her district. A congresswoman reflects on the last six months
Six months ago, the first Covid-19 case was diagnosed in the U.S. in a man…
Opinion: I failed — at age 34 — the now-politicized Montreal Cognitive Assessment
One sunny day in October 2016, I failed the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA). That’s the…
‘It’s like you injected adrenaline into them’: Facebook’s vaccine misinformation problem faces a new test with Covid-19
As scientists begin to clear a path to a potential coronavirus vaccine, researchers and advocates…
Democratic group warns that the U.S. is unprepared to distribute a Covid-19 vaccine
WASHINGTON — A Democratic group warned Tuesday that the U.S. is fundamentally unprepared to manufacture…
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Dear Abby: Disapproval of pregnancy becomes permanent rift – TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
Dear Abby: Disapproval of pregnancy becomes permanent rift TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press Read Original Article: Dear Abby: Disapproval…
Randomness theory could hold key to internet security
Researchers identified a problem that holds the key to whether all encryption can be broken…
How airway cells work together in regeneration and aging
Researchers have identified the process by which stem cells in the airways of the lungs…
Link between education, income inequality has existed for a century
Income is inextricably linked to access to education in America and it has been for…
Clinics promoting ‘alternative medicine’ must be shut down – The Times
Clinics promoting ‘alternative medicine’ must be shut down The Times Read Original Article: Clinics promoting ‘alternative…
Covid-19 relief package likely to include billions more for vaccines, testing
WASHINGTON — The latest round of Covid-19 relief could include a dramatic increase in new…
Pfizer and BioNTech pick Covid-19 vaccine and begin pivotal study
Pfizer and BioNTech are starting a large study of a vaccine candidate for Covid-19 aimed…
Pristine environments offer a window to our cloudy past
A new study uses satellite data over the Southern Hemisphere to understand global cloud composition…
Unprecedented look into ‘central engine’ powering a solar flare
Researchers have presented a new, detailed look inside the ‘central engine’ of a large solar…
Lithium in drinking water linked with lower suicide rates
Naturally occurring lithium in public drinking water may have an anti-suicidal effect – according to…
Patterns in sediment linked to rain, uplift and sea level change
In a recent study, researchers show that a natural record – sediments packed together at…
New paper squares economic choice with evolutionary survival
Unlike businesses or governments, organisms can’t go into evolutionary debt — there is no borrowing…
Origami metamaterials show reversible auxeticity combined with deformation recoverability
New research expands the understanding of origami structures, opening possibilities for mechanical metamaterials to be…
Stopping listeria reproduction ‘in its tracks’
Listeria contaminations can send food processing facilities into full crisis mode with mass product recalls,…
MicroRNA shows promise for hair regrowth
Researchers have identified a microRNA (miRNA) that could promote hair regeneration. This miRNA — miR-218-5p…
Study identifies top reasons for sewer line failure
Concrete sewer pipes around the world are most likely to fail either because their concrete…
Laser inversion enables multi-materials 3D printing
Selective laser sintering is one of the most widely used processes in additive manufacturing, but…
Protecting beta cells against stress may guard against type 1 diabetes
Researchers have found an unusual strategy that eventually may help to guard transplanted beta cells…
Water molecules are gold for nanocatalysis
Nanocatalysts made of gold nanoparticles dispersed on metal oxides are very promising for the industrial,…
Return of the zombie cicadas: Manipulative qualities of fungal-infected flyers
Cicadas infected with the parasitic fungus Massospora unknowingly engage in trickery with their fellow insects,…
Make your own greenhouse gas logger
Researchers have developed a simple logger for greenhouse gas flows. It is built using inexpensive…
Ultra-low power brain implants find meaningful signal in grey matter noise
By tuning into a subset of brain waves, researchers have dramatically reduced the power requirements…
Artificial Intelligence to identify individual birds of same species
Humans have a hard time identifying individual birds just by looking at the patterns on…
STAT Plus: New York panel seeks extra Medicaid rebates from Biogen for pricey rare disease drug
A New York State panel has recommended that officials seek a supplemental Medicaid rebate for…
Covid-19: Deaths in Yemen are five times global average as healthcare collapses
Yemen’s already collapsing healthcare system is buckling as the coronavirus pandemic hits an infrastructure already…
New approach refines the Hubble’s constant and age of universe
Using known distances of 50 galaxies from Earth to refine calculations in Hubble’s constant, astronomers…
Former Manchester City doctor can return to work after suspension for ordering drugs under patient’s name
A former doctor for Manchester City Football Club has been allowed back on the UK…
Covid-19 infections leave an impact on the heart, raising concerns about lasting damage
Two new studies from Germany paint a sobering picture of the toll that Covid-19 takes…
Covid-19: England’s obesity strategy will fail without tackling social factors, warn doctors
Having a BMI of 35 to 40 may increase the risk of death from covid-19…
High rates of stillbirth and preterm delivery in women with covid-19 and the efficacy of ECMO in pregnancy
The initial data reported by the UK Obstetric Surveillance System study were of great interest,…
A critique of clinical economy: reassessing value and care during covid-19—an essay by Eric Reinhart and Daniel Brauner
The United States is host to more documented covid-19 cases and deaths than any other…