Dec 27, 2024 · W riters whose subject is the natural world, and the overwhelming changes that humans have inflicted upon it, grapple regularly with a maddening dilemma: how to convey that all hope is not lost, while presenting facts that can bear down on hope like an avalanche.. Hope is often fundamental to action, essential for rousing readers out of complacency; despair, meanwhile, can be an unhelpful ...

Nov 1, 2024 · L ike many surgeons, Marty Makary used to routinely treat appendicitis by removing the patient’s appendix, a procedure performed nearly 300,000 times a year in the U.S. That changed about a decade ago after he read a research study that found antibiotics may be an effective alternative. Despite subsequent research confirming that appendectomies can often be avoided, Makary estimates only ...

Nov 26, 2024 · 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 …

Dec 3, 2024 · 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 ...

Jan 7, 2025 · F or decades, scientists have been trying to develop therapeutics for people living with Alzheimer’s disease, a progressive neurodegenerative disease that is characterized by cognitive decline. Given the global rise in cases, the stakes are high.A study published in The Lancet Public Health reports that the number of adults living with dementia worldwide is expected to nearly triple, to 153 ...

Jan 10, 2025 · F or scientists, submitting a manuscript to a journal for peer review and waiting for good news of its acceptance is a defining experience. Imagine, in the future, receiving an email like this one from a prestigious (but fictional) academic journal: “The Journal of Business Dynamics is happy to accept your manuscript titled ‘A financial analysis of South American football clubs: 1940 ...

Dec 11, 2024 · Concerns about Covid-19’s origins have brought calls for additional oversight of U.S. labs. That effort seems misplaced to some researchers, effectively hamstringing U.S. science in response to alleged biosafety lapses thousands of miles away.

Nov 6, 2024 · O n the morning of Sept. 4, 2024 about a month into the new school year at Apalachee High School near Atlanta, Georgia, a 14-year-old student named Colt Gray left his algebra class at around 9:45 a.m.. About five minutes later, the student’s mother reportedly called the high school after receiving a disturbing text message from her son. School administrators dispatched two school resource ...

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Nov 4, 2024 · I n the plains of western South Dakota, about 25 miles northeast of Mount Rushmore, the Ellsworth Air Force Base is preparing to receive the first fleet of B-21 nuclear bombers, replacing Cold War-era planes. Two other bases, Dyess in Texas and Whiteman in Missouri, will soon follow. By the 2030s, a total of five bases throughout the United States will host nuke-carrying bombers for the first ...