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Scientists’ Feedback SUMMARY Justin Gillis reports on new results showing that the current rate of sea level rise is unprecedented in a record dating back 2,000 years. The article explains…
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The SARS-CoV-2 infection rate is higher among vaccinated than unvaccinated in the UK
Scientists’ Feedback SUMMARY This story in The Atlantic by Robinson Meyer describes a new study on the distribution of economic impacts that result from continued climate change in the United…
…criminal and juvenile justice. In 2009, the Vera Institute of Justice released its report (which can be read here). Vera identified 532 New York City foster children who had participated…
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“Cucumber kills lung cancer cells”; “cucurbitacin B suppressed growth of human lung cancer cells by 90%, reduced their ability to invade surrounding tissues by 75% and reduced migration ability by 88%”
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[climate models] systematically over-estimate the sensitivity of climate to carbon dioxide ... and modelers exclude forcings and feedbacks that run counter to their mission
…Ts records,’ a just-published study at Nature.com’s Scientific Reports found, ‘it is now accepted that a recent warming deceleration can be clearly observed.’ ” Jeremy Fyke Postdoctoral researcher, Los Alamos…
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COVID-19 mortality rates are very low, therefore COVID-19 is not an important public health concern; if you are 70+ years old, you have a 0.054% chance of dying from COVID-19