Utah is pushing back against ever-tightening EPA air pollution standards
The Biden administration is unveiling new, stricter pollution standards for American cities such as Salt Lake City, Utah, which have long struggled with chronically dirty air.(Image credit: Kirk Siegler/NPR) (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Source: NPR Health and Science - February 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Kirk Siegler Source Type: news
Research at the heart of a federal case against the abortion pill has been retracted
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Source: NPR Health and Science - February 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Selena Simmons-Duffin Source Type: news
Have a story about your sibling? Share it with us!
Siblings can have a profound effect on us in childhood and over the course of our lives. How have these bonds affected you? Share your story with us.(Image credit: Catherine Falls Commercial) (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Source: NPR Health and Science - February 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Rebecca Davis Source Type: news
Have a story about your sibling? Share it with us!
Siblings can have a profound effect on us in childhood and over the course of our lives. How have these bonds affected you? Share your story with us. (Image credit: Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images) (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Source: NPR Health and Science - February 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Rebecca Davis Source Type: news
Clownfish might be counting their potential enemies' stripes
At least, that's what a group of researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University thinks. The team recently published a study in the journal Experimental Biology suggesting that Amphiphrion ocellaris, or clown anemonefish, may be counting. Specifically, the authors think the fish may be looking at the number of vertical white stripes on each other as well as other anemonefish as a way to identify their own species. Not only that — the researchers think that the fish are noticing the minutiae of other anemonefish's looks because of some fishy marine geopolitics. Questions, comments or tho...
Source: NPR Health and Science - February 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Regina G. Barber Source Type: news
This week in science: moths' anti-bat signal, fish who count and GMO crops at home
Short Wave ' s Regina Barber and Margaret Cirino talk through how moths produce an anti-bat signal, why clownfish could be counting to 3 and the first GMO food crop sold directly to home gardeners. (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Source: NPR Health and Science - February 8, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
This week in science: moths' anti-bat signal, fish who count and GMO crops at home
Short Wave's Regina Barber and Margaret Cirino talk through how moths produce an anti-bat signal, why clownfish could be counting to 3 and the first GMO food crop sold directly to home gardeners. (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Source: NPR Health and Science - February 8, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Regina G. Barber Source Type: news
California sea otters nearly went extinct. Now they're rescuing their coastal habitat
California sea otter populations have rebounded in recent decades. New research finds that by feasting on shore crabs, these otters are helping to protect their coastal marsh habitat against erosion. (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Source: NPR Health and Science - February 8, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ari Daniel Source Type: news
California sea otters nearly went extinct. Now they're rescuing their coastal habitat
California sea otter populations have rebounded in recent decades. New research finds that by feasting on shore crabs, these otters are helping to protect their coastal marsh habitat against erosion.(Image credit: Emma Levy) (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Source: NPR Health and Science - February 8, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ari Daniel Source Type: news
EPA tightens rules on some air pollution for the first time in over a decade
The new regulations could save thousands of lives from deadly air pollution, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's calculations. (Image credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images) (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Source: NPR Health and Science - February 7, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alejandra Borunda Source Type: news
A seafood firm wants to farm octopus. Activists say they're too smart for that
Octopuses are seen as smart and solitary. A seafood company plans to farm them commercially. Octopus garden? Sure. Octopus farm? No way, say the animal's advocates.(Image credit: Paul Zinken/AFP via Getty Images) (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Source: NPR Health and Science - February 7, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Bill Chappell Source Type: news
Octopuses are clever. Their fans aren't happy with a plan to farm them for food
Octopuses are seen as smart and solitary. A seafood company plans to farm them commercially. Octopus garden? Sure. Octopus farm? No way, say the animal's advocates.(Image credit: Jenny Evans/Getty Images) (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Source: NPR Health and Science - February 7, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Bill Chappell Source Type: news
Long COVID research goes private
Advocates say the federal government is no longer viewing long COVID with the urgency it deserves. Private donors are now funding research bringing an unprecedented level of collaboration. (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Source: NPR Health and Science - February 6, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Will Stone Source Type: news
FDA move to ban formaldehyde in hair straighteners called too little, too late
The FDA will soon move to ban formaldehyde in hair-straightening products. It's more than a decade after research raised alarms about health risks and other worrying chemicals remain in the products. (Image credit: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Source: NPR Health and Science - February 6, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ronnie Cohen Source Type: news
Another atmospheric river has soaked California. What role has climate change played?
California is in the grips of an atmospheric river that's causing flooding all over the state. Climate change might be intensifying storms like it — but scientists are still working out the details. (Image credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images) (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Source: NPR Health and Science - February 6, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alejandra Borunda Source Type: news
