Thanks to huge growth in solar and wind, renewable energy broke records in 2023, generating 30% of electricity worldwide. Green energy from solar and wind made up nearly 91% of…
Day: January 7, 2025
The U.S. Surgeon General Has One Last Piece of Advice
Dr. Vivek Murthy served two terms as U.S. Surgeon General—first under former President Obama, then under President Biden. During his tenure, Murthy was a calm and reassuring voice during COVID-19,…
What to Expect at a Skin Cancer Screening
Your skin is your largest organ, but it doesn’t get the attention it deserves—especially when it comes to skin checks for cancer. That should change, says Dr. Susan Massick, associate…
FDA Limits Toxic Lead in Some Baby Foods
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday set maximum levels for lead in baby foods like jarred fruits and vegetables, yogurts, and dry cereal, part of an effort to…
Doctors Are Worried That Iodine Deficiency Is Coming Back
NEW YORK — The 13-year-old boy came to the clinic with a rapidly ballooning neck. Doctors were puzzled. Testing ruled out their first suspicion. But further tests pinpointed what they—and…
Pedro Gundel: plant-fungi symbiosis and the impact of host fitness and vertical transmission efficiency
In our new post Pedro Gundel, researcher at University of Talca (Chile) presents his work ‘Temporal host–symbiont dynamics in community contexts: Impact of host fitness and vertical transmission efficiency on…
Help us ‘bake’ Cupcake Day for the Ontario SPCA a sweet success!
Cupcake Day for the Ontario SPCA is back again in 2025 and the not-so-secret ingredient to making Cupcake Day a sweet success is YOU! We are calling on all animal…
Legal snafu over canceled natural gas plant site ensnares Connecticut energy storage project
A planned 325-megawatt battery energy storage system at a key location on New England’s power grid could boost Connecticut’s access to carbon-free power — but only if it can overcome…
“Hospital Mergers Kill”: An Economists’ Exercise in Reality Distortion
By JEFF GOLDSMITH In late June, 2024, two economists, Zarek Brot-Goldberg and Zack Cooper, from the University of Chicago and Yale respectively, released an economic analysis arguing that hospital mergers…