Geoengineering Could Alter Global Climate. Should It?
2024年12月3日 · 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 …
Opinion: Caring for Patients from Conflict Zones - undark.org
2024年12月12日 · I n recent months, I’ve taken a growing interest in reading the accounts of health care workers from conflict zones, areas of the world caught in a crossfire of warring factions, where men, women, and children bear the collateral damage wrought by bombs and bullets. Health care workers’ harrowing stories are some of the most unvarnished ones we …
The Technology for Autonomous Weapons Exists. What Now?
2024年11月26日 · 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 …
Mixed Lessons from Intentionally Infecting People with Covid-19
2025年1月1日 · W hen the Covid-19 pandemic first struck, Christopher Chiu and other researchers wondered: Should they inject healthy people with the virus that caused the pandemic?. The idea sounded counterintuitive, but by carefully dosing individuals with SARS-CoV-2 in a controlled setting — like Chiu had been doing for more than a decade with …
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 …
People Hate Daylight Saving. Science Tells Us Why. - Undark …
2024年3月11日 · In 2022, Gentry and an interdisciplinary team of colleagues added to that body of research, publishing a study in the journal Time & Society that showed the rate of fatal motor-vehicle accidents was highest for people living in the far west of a time zone, where the sun rises and sets at least an hour later than on the eastern side. Chronobiology research shows that …
Book Review: Why the Medical Establishment Often Gets It Wrong
2024年11月1日 · 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 …
As Biolabs Multiply Globally, Some Experts Worry About Oversight
2025年1月2日 · At the same time, the pandemic has also prompted what some experts describe as a global boom in the construction of such facilities. As countries struggled to respond to the pandemic, many decided that they need more laboratories in …
Podcast: Is Fluoride Toxic at Low Levels? - undark.org
2024年12月23日 · W elcome to Entanglements. In this episode, hosts Brooke Borel and Anna Rothschild ask: Is fluoride toxic at low levels? The history of the mineral is scattered with alleged health claims — and conspiracy theories. But a growing body of research on fluoride’s effect on developing brains has raised new questions and heated debates.
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