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 ...
The Great American Nuclear Weapons Upgrade - undark.org
2024年11月4日 · 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 ...
Baring Teeth: The Long Battle Over Fluoride Comes to a Head
2024年3月6日 · 1. Fluoride blocks the absorption of iodine, so people living in the U.S. goiter belt are especially at risk of iodine deficient related diseases.
Book Review: The Curious History of Life-Saving Viruses
2024年11月15日 · While new antibiotics continue to trickle out, medicine needs a radical solution, argues Lina Zeldovich in “The Living Medicine: How a Lifesaving Cure Was Nearly Lost—and Why It Will Rescue Us When Antibiotics Fail.” And that solution, she writes, has been sitting on the shelves of a bacteriophage institute in Tbilisi, Georgia, for decades.
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Book Review: How Much Can Animals Really Communicate?
2024年10月11日 · O ver the last decades, researchers who study animal behavior have succeeded in largely blurring the line between Homo sapiens and other animals. Like their human counterparts, animals feel emotions, they solve problems, they communicate and form complicated relationships, investigators have found.
Can New Mexico’s Ancient Water System Survive Climate Change?
2024年10月9日 · S antiago Maestas has grown apples, peaches, and apricots on his New Mexico property for more than five decades. He still cherishes the network of ancient gravity-fed irrigation ditches that deliver the water that keeps his orchard thriving. Those irrigation ditches, scattered across the state and known as acequias (pronounced ah-SEH-kee-ahs), have endured for hundreds of years.
Maybe She’s Just Tired, Maybe It’s Undiagnosed Iron Deficiency
2024年8月26日 · A bout three years ago, Soumya Rangarajan struggled day after day with exhaustion, headaches, and heart palpitations. As a frontline hospital doctor during the Covid-19 pandemic, she first attributed her symptoms to the demands of an …
An Honest Discussion of Covid Vaccine Side Effects Is Overdue
2024年11月5日 · T hree and a half years ago I contracted Guillain-Barré syndrome after getting the Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) viral vector vaccine for Covid-19. The neurological disorder has left me hobbled by numb hands and feet, staggering around imbalanced, and battling debilitating fatigue. It has also left me, and thousands of others, feeling ignored and unheard by the government and the public health ...
Future Spuds: The Hardy Potatoes of Tomorrow - Undark Magazine
2024年9月4日 · Experts say Solynta has cracked that problem, which helped lay the groundwork for a revolution in potato breeding. Hybrid breeding will enable breeders to create new varieties faster and more systematically, said Shelley Jansky, a retired plant breeder at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.