Five years ago some infectious diseases experts were starting to grasp that the world was watching the emergence of a new pandemic. #Covid was a painful experience that should have taught us a lot about pandemic preparedness. But we seem to be unwilling to learn. www.statnews.com/2025/01/06/c...
This is going to make you feel very small.
Fly away from the surface of Earth, past the Sun, out of the Solar System, through the closest stars, leave the Milky Way, to the cosmic web of galaxies in the nearby Universe.
L’IPBES a publié un rapport sur les interactions entre biodiversité, eau, alimentation, santé et changement climatique. Ces crises mondiales sont interconnectées : on ne peut s’attaquer à l’une sans penser aux autres.
Lire l'article : reporterre.net/Climat-natur...
Why don’t new memories overwrite old ones? It appears that this is because the brain processes new and old memories in separate phases of sleep, which might prevent mixing between the two.
Full details in this nature paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦
Saganism
It took four days from submission to publication, and nearly five years from publication to retraction. After campaigning by many, many scientists, and an investigation by Elsevier, an infamous paper on hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 treatment has been retracted. 🧪
www.science.org/content/arti...
With this simple but terrible video, anyone easily understands what’s happening in LA, and why the Fire Dept struggles to fight the fire: the Santa Ana winds blowing like crazy on a land left with almost no rain since November, after a very hot Summer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qjT...
Extraire, de la calotte polaire de l’ #Antarctique, de la glace vieille d’1,2 million d’années pour mieux prévoir l’évolution du climat futur: c’est l’exploit de scientifiques du consortium européen Beyond #EPICA, avec forte participation de @unibern.bsky.social. Sur RTS : www.rts.ch/info/science...
L'IPBES a publié un rapport sur les interactions entre biodiversité, eau, alimentation, santé et changement climatique. Ces crises mondiales sont interconnectées : on ne peut s'attaquer à l'une sans p...
Study on hydroxychloroquine by Didier Raoult and colleagues gets pulled on ethical and scientific grounds
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Une équipe de chercheurs et de chercheuses a collecté des échantillons de glace d'un âge record. Objectif? Connaître le climat de la Terre il y a plus d'un million d'années.
L'avion Solar Impulse entame une nouvelle vie aux Etats-Unis. Il vient d'être testé par l'armée américaine, alors que son concepteur, Bertrand Piccard, avait juré en 2020 que l'appareil ne servirait j...
