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Evidence-led coverage of public health, medicine, climate science and the research changing daily life.
The executive order calls for separate MMR shots and separate visits for every childhood immunisation. Almost nothing changes this month — the risk sits in behaviour, not law.
11 Aug · 11 min read
Health & ScienceSea surface temperatures set a July record days before Typhoon Dolphin forced more than a million evacuations in eastern China. The two numbers are the same story.
10 Aug · 10 min read
Health & ScienceStanford and Arc Institute researchers used a generative genome model to design complete viral genomes from scratch. Sixteen worked. Some killed bacteria better than nature's version.
9 Aug · 11 min read
Health & ScienceMachine learning has moved from predicting protein structures to designing candidate drugs and reading scans. The gains are real - and so are the limits.
3 Aug · 10 min read