Science & Health
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U.S. Health Director Overheard Trashing Trump’s ‘Herd Immunity’ Guy, Scott Atlas
The director of the U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention thinks that one of Trump’s top pandemic advisers has no idea what he’s talking about.
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The UK Could Be the First Country to Intentionally Give People Coronavirus to Test Vaccines
The UK is considering a controversial approach to testing potential vaccines for the coronavirus that causes covid-19: intentionally exposing volunteers to the virus, in a strategy known as challenge trials.
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A ‘Climate Anomaly’ Worsened World War I and the 1918 Flu Pandemic, New Research Suggests
A once-in-a-century “climate anomaly” exacerbated the awful conditions along the Western Front in Europe during the First World War, according to new research. This unusual weather may have also amplified — and possibly even initiated — the catastrophic 1918-19 flu pandemic, exposing an underappreciated threat posed by climate change.
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Black Hole From Iconic Image Appears to Be Wobbling
Scientists are learning important new things about the first-ever directly imaged black hole, including behaviours consistent with Einsteinian theory, but it’s also showing an unexpected feature in the form of a very wobbly ring.