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- In 1928, Bell Telephone Laboratories asked Karl Jansky to investigate the static interfering with its transatlantic phone system. After more than a year of work, Jansky traced one persistent hiss to the sky, toward Sagittarius, where the center of the Milky Way sits. In our
- Some experts say the tests, which can spot multiple kinds of cancer, aren’t yet sensitive enough to be widely used.
- Replying to @undarkmagAn Undark investigation in 2023 helped uncover some of that history. Now, the families have filed suit against the U.S. government, with representation from Ben Crump and other civil rights lawyers. You can read the suit here, and listen to the press conference at this link:
- Replying to @undarkmagThose safer vaccines received regulatory approval in 2023. But the boys' story had never been told — and members of their own families had no idea their children had become the subject of global scientific attention.
- Replying to @undarkmagResearchers concluded that the vaccine had likely contributed to the boys' deaths. In the years that followed, scientists intensively studied their medical records and tissue samples, trying to learn how to create safer RSV vaccines.
- In January 1967, 14-month-old Ross Otto Hambrick and 16-month-old Victor King died at a hospital in Washington, D.C. Both were part of a clinical trial on an experimental RSV vaccine, and almost all of the participants in that arm of the trial, including Ross Otto and Victor,
- The International Rescue Committee has been testing AI chatbots through its Signpost platform, which gives displaced people practical information in multiple languages, the Associated Press reported. More sensitive questions are referred to the human staff.
- A 2024 analysis commissioned by AARP estimated 3.2 million Medicare Part D enrollees would benefit from the $2,000 cap in 2025, saving an average of $1,500.
- Our committee has no statutory authority with respect to vaccines or vaccine policy," Sylvia Fogel, the new chair of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee, tells Sara Talpos.
- In Northern England, 75 percent of those convicted of offenses related to raptor persecution since 2009 have been connected with the bird-shooting industry, Scott Weidensaul writes 68 percent of them are gamekeepers.
- In 2024, 178 large whales washed up on United States shores, many already dead. Since 2014, potassium chloride has been used to euthanize more than 30 large whales in the U.S.
- Since President Donald Trump returned to office, more than a dozen Title X grantees have had grants frozen, forcing some health centers to stop services, lay off staff, or close. f.mtr.cool/hskhrwfomm
