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For decades, fairness has been the guiding principle of the American organ transplant system. But today, nearly 20% of the time, officials ignore strict rules meant to ensure that donated organs are offered to the patients who need them most, a New York Times investigation found. nyti.ms/3XlqVK1

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Without us, Earth may have been on track to plunge into another ice age within 11,000 years. This long-term forecast of the planet’s “natural” climate absent global warming is based on a new analysis of how Milankovitch cycles in Earth's orbit alter the amount of solar energy reaching the planet.🧪

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Lynn Dekleva, a lobbyist, once led an aggressive effort by an industry group to block regulations on formaldehyde, a cancer-causing chemical. Now she’s in a senior role at the Environmental Protection Agency.

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I'm pretty sure I had to run two miles at an 8-minute pace to make it onto the field hockey team in high school

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While the US withdrawal from the WHO formally takes a year, it has already stopped sharing critical influenza surveillance data with the international health agency. The result? Flu shots may be less effective, especially for the US. www.newscientist.com/article/2469...

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Next week, the WHO will determine the current dominant flu strains and help plan global vaccine production. This happens each flu season, but this time there is a key difference: the US is unlikely to take part. Important story from @gracewade.bsky.social www.newscientist.com/article/2469...

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Children may have a higher risk of developing ADHD if their mothers used paracetamol – also known as acetaminophen – during pregnancy, adding weight to the contested idea that the widely used painkiller may impair fetal brain development. www.newscientist.com/article/2467...

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I'd forgotten about Tim's Manifesto - brilliant.

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Well done to AP for making the correct choice

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This and COVID should be/have been huge wake-up calls that political journalists need much stronger science and technology skills if they’re going to make sense of how government operates, communicates, or makes decisions.

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Nothing published this week either. Very concerning. What aren’t we learning about and when will we know so we can protect ourselves?

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www.newscientist.com/article/2465... by @gracewade.bsky.social

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Trump threw public health infrastructure into disarray his first week back in office, withdrawing the US from the WHO and imposing a gag order on public health agencies. If RFK Jr. becomes Secretary of Health, it could further destabilise the situtation. www.newscientist.com/article/2465...

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I hate when people talk over others, so you can imagine why watching any congressional hearing is excrutiating for me. I imagine it is for a lot of Americans.

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#Gaza: We are devastated to report the death of Bilal Okal, our colleague killed by Israeli forces in Jabalia, North Gaza, along with 10 of his family members. Bilal joined MSF in 2017. He was 37 years old.

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The CDC is operating without an acting director, multiple health officials confirm to CBS News, leaving the agency without a clear chain of command. A leadership vacuum atop the CDC is unprecedented. | CBS News www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-who...

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a really thorough and digestible explanation from Megan on what the science actually says about sex and gender: www.statnews.com/2025/01/23/t...

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With backing from US President Trump, OpenAI and other companies have announced an ambitious project to build huge data centres for AI development – but the details of the Stargate Project remain murky www.newscientist.com/article/2465...

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When I first saw a doctor for my eating disorder in 2012, they told my mom not to worry because I still had a "normal" BMI. This was despite the fact I had lost 10% of my bodyweight in 3 months as a 14-year-old girl (1/4) www.statnews.com/2025/01/09/e...

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Podcast! 🧬Gene-editing of human embryos - the case for and against 🐦The pandemic risk of H5N1 🍝The raging battle over how to make cacio e pepe with @pennysarchet.bsky.social, @gracewade.bsky.social and @mjflepage.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

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How worried should we be about a bird flu pandemic? Pretty darn worried. But there are plenty of reasons to believe that #H5N1 won't become the next covid-19, as I discuss in my latest for @newscientist.bsky.social www.newscientist.com/article/2463...

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Sleep is crucial for removing waste from the brain. Yet when mice are given zolpidem, a medication found in sleeping pills such as Ambien, they are unable to flush toxins out of their brains during sleep, indicating sleep meds may actually worsen sleep quality. www.newscientist.com/article/2463...

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Ever since the covid-19 pandemic, teenage drug use in the US has been on the decline. Use of nearly every single substance – including alcohol, cannabis and vaped nicotine – decreased amongst adolescents in 2024, with one exception: nicotine pouches. www.newscientist.com/article/2462...

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After years of rising obesity rates, the number of adults in the US with the condition dipped slightly in 2023. This is the first time obesity rates have fallen in the country in decades. However, experts can't agree on what is driving the shift. www.newscientist.com/article/2462...

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When I wrote for Law & Order, we fake-murdered more people on all three shows than were actually murdered in NYC that year. And that was just three shows on one network. Murder mysteries make good stories. But they’re just stories. You’re safer than you think.

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As data centers cause America to run out of power, Arizona is emblematic of the sacrifices ordinary people face to fuel the boom.

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Look at this beauty. Buy your copy on newsstands tomorrow!

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On the advice of an orthodontist, researchers put giant hailstones in a CT-scanner, revealing their internal structure. This could improve our surprisingly limited understanding of how big chunks of ice form in storms. www.newscientist.com/article/2459...

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A study by @debbyvanriel.bsky.social shows that the current H5N1 bird flu virus 🦠 is better than earlier variants at infecting human upper airway cells - and just one mutation could make it a whole lot better at doing this 🧪 www.newscientist.com/article/2459...

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I'm currently finishing off a piece about the risk of another pandemic. Hoping it comes out before the next pandemic actually starts (yes that is a bad joke.) Linked piece by my colleague @gracewade.bsky.social www.newscientist.com/article/2458...

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I would never have expected it given seemingly constant headlines about E. coli, but it turns out that the US food safety system isn't actually all that bad compared to the UK - this great deep dive is well worth reading www.newscientist.com/article/2457...

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We hear so much that the US food supply is bad, full of additives and dyes that are supposedly harmful. And after several bacterial outbreaks in food this year, I wondered, "How bad is our food system, actually?" So @gracewade.bsky.social did a deep dive into it: www.newscientist.com/article/2457...

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