Editor’s Note: The following article from the MIT Technology Review was written before the June 24th Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization Supreme Court decision, so you will see that it refers to the future possibility of overturning Roe V. Wade. Nevertheless, it contains information more timely and useful than ever. “By Antonio Regalado…
Don Pelton Brian Williams, on his late-night program “The 11th Hour” last night interviewed Dr. Bob Wachter, chair of the Department of Medicine at the UCSF Medical Center. Dr. Wachter has lately been suggesting that Covid will become endemic (regular, recurring here on planet Earth). Here’s the transcript of the interview with Dr. Wachter…
Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian, University of Cambridge; Christelle Langley, University of Cambridge; Emmanuel A Stamatakis, University of Cambridge, and Lennart Spindler, University of Cambridge Consciousness is arguably the most important scientific topic there is. Without consciousness, there would after all be no science. But while we all know what it is like to be conscious…
Ann Z. Bauer, University of Massachusetts Lowell The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea A mounting body of evidence shows that the use of acetaminophen – widely known by its brand name Tylenol – during pregnancy may pose risks to the fetus and to early childhood development….
Data from Qatar provide strongest evidence yet that COVID-19 vaccines can stop strains thought to pose a threat to immunization efforts By Ewen Callaway Reprinted from Springer Nature under Creative Commons CC-BY license Qatar’s second wave of COVID-19 was a double whammy. In January, after months of relatively few cases and deaths, the Gulf…