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“As Kennedy takes office as secretary of health and human services, the world’s most transmissible virus is challenging him to an arm-wrestling match, and it’s one that the iron-pumping health advocate cannot win.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Accurate

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How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

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#RomanFortThursday - The Limes Fortlet in Pohl (Germany), an authentic replica of a small Limes fort with a watchtower. It provided space for a centuria of 80 men. Fortlets on the Limes featured a circular V-shaped ditch and an earth wall of turf blocks. The interiors housed U-shaped barrack blocks.

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And it slowly spreads.

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Solar-powered Flow Reactor [via Uni of Cambridge] 🧪⚗️🌞🔋⛽ “CO2 is [] a harmful waste product, [and] also an opportunity. We can build a circular, sustainable economy – if we have the political will” -- Erwin Reisner www.cam.ac.uk/research/new... #carbon #capture #sustainable #fuel #solar #power

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This is honestly starting to feel like there’s a national death cult movement dailyinterlake.com/news/2025/fe...

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Ruth Faden & Nancy Kass - The abrupt end of USAID-funded clinical trials is profoundly unethical: It’s also dangerous to the health of thousands of trial participants www.statnews.com/2025/02/16/u... via @statnews.com

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Russland hat nach ukrainischen Informationen in der Nacht das AKW Tschornobyl mit einer Drohne angegriffen. Das Feuer sei inzwischen gelöscht, es werde keine erhöhte Radioaktivität gemessen, so Präsident Selenskyj. Er spricht von einem erheblichen Schaden an der Ummantelung. Video: Selenskyj

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Elon Musk Korruption in Reinform: fortune.com/2025/02/12/s...

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Stand Up for Science rallies will be held in DC and state capitals on March 7th. Share with friends. Sign-up here to get email updates with details: www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...

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A Direct Hit, by @holdenthorp.bsky.social @science.org www.science.org/doi/full/10.... "This is a moment to unite."

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Their aim is nothing short of a new Dark Ages. Anti-science, anti-education, anti-democracy, in favor of needless human suffering. NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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I can’t believe this needs to be said, but cutting funding for cancer research is not how you make America great. thehill.com/policy/healt...

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"The NIH announced it will slash billions of dollars of support to universities and research centers. "This is one of the biggest attacks on science we have ever seen. It could dismantle the biomedical research system, shut down clinical trials, and halt development of treatments" - Dr. Lucky Tran

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Amid today’s massive NIH cuts to universities, please know that my research colleagues: - Develop new cancer treatments for kids - Are curing sickle cell disease - Build new tech to help premature babies survive - Prevent teens from dying of drug overdose - And more #NIH #MedSky #research #science

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NEW: A measles outbreak is growing in a Texas county with dangerously low vaccination rates. In late January, two school-age children in Gaines County were hospitalized with measles. As of Feb. 7, there were 14 confirmed & six probable cases, with officials investigating more potential infections.

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Unserer Wirtschaft geht es nicht gut und steht ein Handelskrieg mit den USA unmittelbar bevor. Und die CDU, FDP und die Medien befassen sich ausschliesslich mit einem Affentheater das nur die Nazis gross macht und sowie keine Wirkung haben kann, weil es ein Grundgesetz gibt.

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This project tracks government attempts to restrict or prohibit scientific research, education, or discussion, or the publication or use of scientific information. Read more about the tracker and related... Or contribute to the database. #science climate.law.columbia.edu/Silencing-Sc...

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