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Oxford scientist resigns from Royal Society over Elon Musk’s continuing fellowship

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Prof Dorothy Bishop said fellowship was ‘a contradiction of all the values’ of UK’s national academy of sciences A leading scientist at the University of Oxford has resigned from the UK’s national academy of sciences over concerns about Elon Musk’s continuing fellowship. Prof Dorothy Bishop, emeritus professor of developmental neuropsychology and a leading expert on children’s communication disor

An Improbable Psychiatrist by Rebecca Lawrence review – doctor turned patient

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A brave memoir from a psychiatrist with severe mental illness that describes a failing system from within This brave memoir by a psychiatrist who has severe mental illness shows how lost and confused psychiatry and its patients have become. Future readers will be amazed, we must hope, by how poorly we understood and how ineffectively we treated the troubled mind. Rebecca Lawrence has experienced

PFAS and microplastics become more toxic when combined, research shows

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Study detects synergistic effect making substances more dangerous, raising alarm since humans are exposed to both Few human-made substances are as individually ubiquitous and dangerous as PFAS and microplastics , and when they join forces there is a synergistic effect that makes them even more toxic and pernicious, new research suggests. The study’s authors exposed water fleas to mixtures of the

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Dead Sea ‘white smokers’ provide early sinkhole warning, say scientists

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Underwater chimney structures spewing jets of brine can help alert to dangerous regional issue, research shows Venting chimneys have been discovered on the floor of the Dead Sea. These previously unknown “white smokers” spew out salty water and provide early warning of sinkhole formation on nearby land. The Dead Sea is sinking fast. Over the past 50 years, intense evaporation has resulted in it d

Trump pick for US health agency proposed ‘herd immunity’ during Covid

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Choosing Jay Bhattacharya to lead NIH signals return to controversial and scientifically questionable health policies Jay Bhattacharya, an unofficial Covid adviser in Trump’s first administration, has been selected as the director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), one of the leading biomedical research institutions in the world. The choice of Bhattacharya, a Stanford economist whose pro

Irregular sleep pattern raises risk of stroke and heart attack, study finds

Irregular sleep increases stroke risk

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Variations in time a person goes to sleep and wakes up ‘strongly associated’ with higher risk of negative impacts Failing to stick to a regular time for going to bed and waking up increases the risk of stroke, heart attack and heart failure by 26%, even for those who get a full night’s sleep, the most comprehensive study of its kind suggests. Previous studies have focused on the links between sle

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‘Portal to space’: the place where astronauts take off and land – in pictures

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Every three months in Kazakhstan, a trio of cosmonauts and astronauts head off to the International Space Station – then return in small capsules. What do the locals make of it? Continue reading...

Weight-loss drugs can improve kidney health, study finds

GLP-1 drugs improve kidney health

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Analysis involving more than 85,000 people showed risk of worsening function was reduced by 22% Weight-loss drugs can reduce the risk of worsening kidney function, kidney failure and dying from kidney disease by a fifth, according to a study. Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists are a family of medications that help people shed the pounds, manage blood sugar in patients with type 2 d

Female astronaut goes to space but can’t escape online sexism by ‘small men’

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Video posted by Emily Calandrelli about awesome view of Earth was flooded with hateful, objectifying comments There isn’t a galaxy far, far away enough where women can escape sexist online trolls. Emily Calandrelli became the 100th woman to go to space when she joined a group of six space tourists in a launch led by Blue Origin, the aerospace company owned by the billionaire Jeff Bezos. Continue

‘Travesty of justice’: Cop29’s controversial deal – podcast

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Madeleine Finlay hears from the Guardian’s environment editor, Damian Carrington, about the controversial climate finance deal that brought Cop29 negotiations to a close in the early hours on Sunday morning in Baku, Azerbaijan. Developing countries asked rich countries to provide them with $1.3tn a year to help them decarbonise their economies and cope with the effects of the climate crisis. But

Did you solve it? Brain training for Martians

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The answers to today’s puzzles Earlier today I set you three problems from a maths competition for Martian schoolchildren. By Martian, I mean Hungarian. In the mid-twentieth century, a generation of outstanding mathematicians and physicists from Hungary were humorously called Martians, as their intelligence was from another planet. Continue reading...

Earth’s ‘mini moon’ which may be chunk of actual moon set to disappear

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School-bus-sized asteroid known as 2024 PT5 and currently 2m miles from Earth will begin journey towards sun A so-called mini-moon of Earth that has been lingering in the heavens since September will begin a journey towards the sun on Monday as it prepares to disappear until 2055. The school-bus-sized asteroid known as 2024 PT5 might actually be a huge boulder that broke from the moon after anoth

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Can you solve it? Brain-training for Martians

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Do you have alien intelligence? UPDATE: Solutions can be read here Hungary acquired a reputation for brilliance in maths and physics in the middle of last century, thanks to scientists like John von Neumann, Edward Teller and Eugene Wigner. The stellar cohort become known as the Martians. The Hungarians, so the joke went, were evidence that superior alien intelligence had already landed on Earth.

Starwatch: Waning crescent moon and bright star Spica offer early birds a treat

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The moon will have just 14% of its visible surface illuminated and Spica will be shining a brilliant white light On these cold wintry mornings it can often take a lot of effort or the promise of something good to drag us out of bed. On 27 November, nature will provide a beautiful sight that will reward the early risers: an exquisitely thin waning crescent moon will be sitting next to the bright s

A cool flame: how Gaia theory was born out of a secret love affair – podcast

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Scientist James Lovelock gave humanity new ways to think about our home planet – but some of his biggest ideas were the fruit of a passionate collaboration. By Jonathan Watts Continue reading...

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