Rat Infestations Are a Global Problem. Is Birth Control the Solution?
Not every politician is willing to admit they owe their election to rats. But Laura Mikulski, city councilwoman for Ferndale, Michigan isn’t shy about attributing her political career—literally—to skeevy, long-tailed rodents.
Mikulski, who educated herself in all things rat control, is the co-founder of the Ferndale Rat Patrol. She created a citizens’ movement to accurately assess the local scope of its burgeoning rat problem, embrace less environmentally harmful methods of pest control, and even host a month-long census, called Traptoberfest, in which participants win gold-painted spring trap trop...
Source: TIME: Science - March 27, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Lisa Abend Tags: Uncategorized animals feature freelance Source Type: news
Pall of suspicion: NIH ’s secretive ‘China initiative’ has destroyed scores of academic careers
For decades, Chinese-born U.S. faculty members were applauded for working with colleagues in China, and their universities cited the rich payoff from closer ties to the emerging scientific giant. But those institutions did an about-face after they began to receive emails in late 2018 from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The emails asked some 100 institutions to investigate allegations that one or more of their faculty had violated NIH policies designed to ensure federal funds were being spent properly. Most commonly, NIH claimed a researcher was using part of a grant to do work in China through an undis...
Source: ScienceNOW - March 23, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
When it comes to identifying new gene therapies, she ’s in it for the long run
Like any experienced distance runner, Grace McAuley always keeps her focus on the finish line — even if it’s out of sight. That’s what makes her such a promising young scientist.In spring 2021, McAuley was a UCLA senior who was wrapping up four years on the Bruin track and cross-country teams. Not long after running her last race for UCLA, she joined the lab of Dr. Donald Kohn, a UCLA physician-scientist known for developing gene therapies for blood and immune disorders.“I kept telling Grace she was too busy to join the lab, but she wouldn’t take no for an answer,” says Kohn, a member of theEli and Edythe Broad...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - March 23, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Why the Discovery of an Active Volcano on Venus Matters
Venus had a lot going for it. Roughly the same diameter and density as Earth, it orbits in the solar system’s habitable zone—just the right distance from the sun for liquid water to exist. But the planet’s biological prospects were long ago wrecked by a runaway greenhouse effect that left it with an atmosphere that is 95% carbon dioxide, and 90 times the pressure of Earth’s—the equivalent of being a mile deep in the ocean. Venus’s surface temperatures hover at about 475º C (900º F), or hot enough to melt lead.
But there is one fiery feature of Earth that Venus has long been th...
Source: TIME: Science - March 17, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Space Source Type: news
When it comes to cancer drug side-effects, it ’s about what you’ll tolerate to stay alive | Holiday Osborne
No matter how bad I feel, I have to remind myself that the treatment is working to reducing my tumourNausea, diarrhoea, joint pain, fatigue, hair loss – the list of side-effects for most cancer drugs reads like symptoms of many illnesses in their own right. Before I had this disease, I would have considered making a GP appointment if I’d been suffering just some of the problems that I later came to just write off as simply the downside of bein g cured. The problem with all the side-effects the drugs have caused is that as they pile up, you can lose sight of why you are taking them.It ’s not as if you’re not warned ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 17, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Hilary Osborne Tags: Breast cancer Health Society Drugs Science Mental health Women Source Type: news
When it comes to cancer drug side-effects, it ’s about what you’ll tolerate to stay alive | Hilary Osborne
No matter how bad I feel, I have to remind myself that the treatment is working to reduce my tumourNausea, diarrhoea, joint pain, fatigue, hair loss – the list of side-effects for most cancer drugs reads like symptoms of many illnesses in their own right. Before I had this disease, I would have considered making a GP appointment if I’d been suffering just some of the problems that I later came to just write off as simply the downside of bein g cured. The problem with all the side-effects the drugs have caused is that as they pile up, you can lose sight of why you are taking them.It ’s not as if you’re not warned th...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 17, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Hilary Osborne Tags: Breast cancer Health Society Drugs Science Mental health Women Source Type: news
Watch what happens to cat's " incredible " eyes when shown her favorite toy
A video of a cat's pupils dilating at the sight of its favorite toy, going from cute to killer mode, has delighted the internet with over 6.5 million views. In the footage, Luna the long-haired black cat can be seen in a close up shot of her face, her pupils in miosis, until she sees her favorite…#fetch #kitty #sprucepets (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Long COVID Takes Toll on Already Stretched Healthcare Workforce Long COVID Takes Toll on Already Stretched Healthcare Workforce
While the shortage of clinical workers continues, support workers are also in short supply, with no end in sight.WebMD Health News (Source: Medscape Infectious Diseases Headlines)
Source: Medscape Infectious Diseases Headlines - March 6, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Infectious Diseases News Source Type: news
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ASTRONOMY
Chile radio telescope array gains keener vision
ALMA, one of the world’s biggest radio telescope arrays, is getting hardware and software upgrades to allow it to collect much more data and produce sharper images. Announced last week, the latest modernizations to ALMA—officially the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, which sits high in the Chilean Andes—will cost $37 million and take 6 years to complete. Workers will upgrade the data transmission from the dishes to a central processor. They will also replace the heart of that processor, known as the correlator, a supercomput...
Source: ScienceNOW - February 16, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Toxic Stress Load Is the Biggest Barrier to Living Longer. Here ’ s How to Reduce It
Each person has a powerful combination of characteristics that influence their chances of living a long life. A 2019 study by the City Health Dashboard analyzed the data from the 500 largest cities in the U.S. provides a case in point: a baby born in the Streeterville community of Chicago, in 2015, could live to be 90 years old, while the life expectancy of another baby born just eight miles away, in the Englewood neighborhood, was 60 years. In the Englewood neighborhood, where the life expectancy was 30 years less, 97% of the population is Black and 47% live below the poverty line. Meanwhile in Streeterville, where the re...
Source: TIME: Health - February 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Tamen Jadad-Garcia and Dr. Alex Jadad Tags: Uncategorized health royals Source Type: news
Elon Musk's next drama: a trial over his tweets about Tesla
While still grappling with the fallout from a company he did take private, beleaguered billionaire Elon Musk is now facing a trial over a company he didn't. Long before Musk purchased Twitter for $44 billion in October, he had set his sights on Tesla, the electric automaker where he continues to…#rupertmurdoch #larryellison #elonmusk #jamesmurdoch #teslas #sanfranciscobayarea #edwardchen #twitter #oraclecofounder #saudiarabias (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Elon Musk's Next Drama: A Trial Over His Tweets About Tesla
Long before Musk purchased Twitter for $44 billion in October, he had set his sights on Tesla, the electric automaker where he continues to serve as CEO and from which he derives most of his wealth and fame. Musk claimed in a Aug. 7, 2018 tweet that he had lined up the financing to pay for a $72…#jamesmurdoch #rupertmurdoch #saudiarabias #teslas #sanfranciscobayarea #oraclecofounder #larryellison #twitter #publicinvestmentfund #tesla (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
US still gunning for crypto exchange Binance
The world’s biggest crypto exchange is still in the sights of US authorities as hedge funds are subpoenaed. It was reported by Reuters last month that the long-running investigation into Binance could result in criminal charges being levied against senior executives at the crypto company,…#ftx #justicedepartment #binance #patrickhillmann #changpengzhao #johnghose (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 8, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Two lawmakers nearly come to blows — and other crazy moments from McCarthy’s final speaker votes
Even for career-long observers of Congress, Friday night on the House floor was a sight to behold. The chamber descended into chaos when two lawmakers nearly came to fisticuffs — the frustration of four long days of failing to elect a speaker boiling over. And that was just part of the drama. Rep.…#deanphilips #mikerogers #peteaguilar #illhanomar #katieporter #mattrosendale #hakeemjeffries #hudson #democrats #richardhudson (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Speaker battle shows the long tail of Trump's government sabotage
For any enemy of the United States — foreign or domestic — who hoped Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign would help grind the federal government to a halt, the GOP's intraparty dispute over House speaker should be a welcome sight. In the interest of transparency, I have enjoyed watching Rep.…#trump #donaldtrumps #elicrane #pennsylvania #rcalif #allred #trumps #colorado #msnbc #florida (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
