Opinion: Caring for Patients from Conflict Zones - undark.org
2024年12月12日 · I n recent months, I’ve taken a growing interest in reading the accounts of health care workers from conflict zones, areas of the world caught in a crossfire of warring factions, where men, women, and children bear the collateral damage wrought by bombs and bullets. Health care workers’ harrowing stories are some of the most unvarnished ones we have to hear, and as a physician myself, I ...
The Technology for Autonomous Weapons Exists. What Now?
2024年11月26日 · O n e bluebird day in 2021, employees of Fortem Technologies traveled to a flat piece of Utah desert. The land was a good spot to try the company’s new innovation: an attachment for the DroneHunter — which, as the name halfway implies, is a …
Mixed Lessons from Intentionally Infecting People with Covid-19
2025年1月1日 · W hen the Covid-19 pandemic first struck, Christopher Chiu and other researchers wondered: Should they inject healthy people with the virus that caused the pandemic?. The idea sounded counterintuitive, but by carefully dosing individuals with SARS-CoV-2 in a controlled setting — like Chiu had been doing for more than a decade with seasonal flu and RSV — scientists could study how the virus ...
Court Tells EPA to Consider Fluoride Risk, to Dentists’ Dismay
2024年10月7日 · A federal judge last month handed a major victory to opponents of water fluoridation, capping a seven-year legal battle over whether the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has failed to protect the public from potential toxic effects of fluoride, which is added to the tap water of around 200 million Americans.. The decision is sure to invite further scrutiny of the contested science behind ...
War’s Public Health Impacts Are Vast. Tallying Them Is Difficult.
2024年10月16日 · I n 2001, Nathalie Williams moved from her hometown of Corvallis, Oregon, to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and found work with the United Nations Population Fund, an agency focused on sexual and reproductive health. From the start, she recalls, odd things caught her attention: When a motorcycle tire burst on the street, everyone froze, suspecting gunfire.
Geoengineering Could Alter Global Climate. Should It?
2024年12月3日 · Indeed, skeptics sometimes associate geoengineering with supervillain behavior, like a famous episode of The Simpsons in which the robber baron Mr. Burns blocks the sun. They warn that outdoor experiments could set humanity down a slippery slope, allowing powerful billionaires or individual countries to unleash hazardous technologies without input or agreement from the public more broadly, all ...
Podcast: Is Fluoride Toxic at Low Levels? - undark.org
2024年12月23日 · W elcome to Entanglements. In this episode, hosts Brooke Borel and Anna Rothschild ask: Is fluoride toxic at low levels? The history of the mineral is scattered with alleged health claims — and conspiracy theories. But a growing body of research on fluoride’s effect on developing brains has raised new questions and heated debates.
The Nobel Prizes Tell a Story About Scientific Discovery
2024年11月7日 · The debates around the profession should not distract us from the intrigue in the awarded science. The 2024 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was given to Ambros and Gary Ruvkun “for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.” This was the second consecutive year that it was awarded for a discovery involving RNA.
The Enigmatic Earthquake Hotspot in America’s Heartland
2024年7月15日 · T he first earthquake struck while the town was still asleep. Around 2:00 am on Dec. 16, 1811, New Madrid — a small frontier settlement of 400 people on land now located in Missouri — was jolted awake.
In the Race for Space Metals, Companies Hope to Cash In
2024年5月8日 · I n April 2023, a satellite the size of a microwave launched to space. Its goal: to get ready to mine asteroids. While the mission, courtesy of a company called AstroForge, ran into problems, it’s part of a new wave of would-be asteroid miners hoping to …