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Staying cool in Europe’s record-breaking heat – podcast

14 August at 06:00 AM, via The Guardian

Europe is suffering from another heatwave as deadly temperatures of up to 44C hit the continent and wildfires blazed across the Mediterranean. To find out why Europe is heating faster than anywhere else, Madeleine Finlay speaks to the Guardian’s Europe environment correspondent, Ajit Niranjan, and to Adam Taylor, professor of anatomy at Lancaster University, to find out how we can try to stay...

Trump orders relaxed rules for rocket launches, appearing to benefit Musk and Bezos

14 August at 02:50 AM, via The Guardian

Companies like SpaceX and Blue Horizon may be able to forgo reviews required under National Environmental Policy Act

Donald Trump is looking to relax environmental rules for commercial spaceship companies. In an executive order titled “enabling competition in the commercial space industry” that he signed on Wednesday, he said it’s imperative to national security that the private...

ADHD medication linked to lower risk of suicidal behaviours, study suggests

14 August at 00:30 AM, via The Guardian

Research also suggests the medication lowers risks of substance misuse, transport accidents and criminality

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder medication is linked to significantly lower risk of suicidal behaviours, substance misuse, transport accidents and criminality, according to a study of the wider outcomes of treatment.

The research, based on the medical records of nearly 150,000...

‘Social apnoea’: sleep disorder could worsen at weekends, research suggests

13 August at 15:00 PM, via The Guardian

Lifestyle factors such as drinking and smoking could contribute to increased severity of obstructive sleep apnoea

Letting your hair down at the weekend might be a well-known recipe for a hangover, but researchers say it might also increase the severity of a common sleep disorder.

Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) involves complete pauses in breathing or partial reductions in airflow that arise...

‘Distracting the public’: group of health professionals call for RFK Jr to be removed

13 August at 11:00 AM, via The Guardian

Ahead of the second Maha report, grassroots Defend Public Health warns that everything HHS is doing is ‘horrifying’

A grassroots organization of health professionals have released a report outlining major health challenges in the US and calling for the removal of Robert F Kennedy Jr from the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

The report from Defend Public Health, a new...

‘Deceptively cute’ ancient whale with razor-sharp teeth and eyes the size of tennis balls discovered in Australia

12 August at 23:00 PM, via The Guardian

Scientist says new species described from 25-million-year-old fossil found in Victoria ‘was a gnarly whale I wouldn’t want to get in the water with’

“Small and deceptively cute, but definitely not harmless” is how scientists have described a new species of ancient whale, from a 25-million-year-old fossil found on Victoria’s surf coast.

This early species, called Janjucetus dullardi, was an...

Tech Life

12 August at 21:37 PM, via BBC News

Find out how Singapore is now dealing with cyber threats from other states and criminals.

‘On call for brain retrievals’: the man who gets American football players examined for CTE after death

12 August at 14:00 PM, via The Guardian

The gunman who killed four people in the building of NFL’s New York headquarters asked for his brain be studied for CTE. Neuroscientist Chris Nowinski on what happens next

Shortly after news broke that a shooter had breached the New York City skyscraper where the NFL is headquartered and killed four people before turning the gun on himself, Chris Nowinski was called to duty.

A former Harvard...

How a Jamaican student invented a self-disinfecting door handle for hospitals: ‘Design that fits reality’

12 August at 13:30 PM, via The Guardian

Today, Rayvon Stewart’s model is celebrated as a symbol of the Caribbean’s growing science and technology talent pool

When the Jamaican university student Rayvon Stewart invented a workable model for a door handle that could disinfect itself after every touch, it was hailed as a potential gamechanger for hospitals, hotels and other businesses, with promising implications for controlling the...

UK recovers position in EU’s Horizon Europe science research programme

12 August at 13:00 PM, via The Guardian

Scientists received €735m in grants in 2024 after UK rejoined programme as associate member post-Brexit

Europe live – latest updates

The UK is quickly recovering a prime position in the EU’s £80bn science research programme 18 months after becoming a participating member following the resolution of Brexit problems, data shows.

The country was frozen out of Horizon Europe for three years in a...

All the buzz: US dog helps researchers identify bacteria that harms honeybees

12 August at 12:00 PM, via The Guardian

Maple, a springer spaniel, is part of a project at a Michigan university focused on risk factors affecting the bees’ health

One dog in Michigan hasn’t been content with merely belonging to the species famously known as man’s best friend. She has strived to be bees’ best friend, too.

Maple, a springer spaniel aged nine, is earning news headlines by helping Michigan State University (MSU)...

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