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Cancer: One in eight cases worldwide caused by infections like Epstein-Barr, study finds
Cancer: One in eight cases worldwide caused by infections like Epstein-Barr, study finds | The BMJ
Mystery disease leaves five dead in Burundi, with investigations ongoing
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Detectar enfermedades genéticas en embriones podría revolucionar el embarazo, pero genera dudas éticas
El mundo del embarazo va a cambiar radicalmente, predice Noor Siddiqui. "Creo que la forma predeterminada en que la gente va a elegir tener hijos es a través de la fecundación in vitro (FVI) y el cribado de embriones. Hay una enorme cantidad de riesgos que se pueden eliminar", puntualizó en la cumbre WIRED Health la semana pasada. Siddiqui es fundadora y CEO de Orchid, una empresa de biotecnología que ofrece el cribado del genoma completo de embriones para FIV.
Whole-Genome Sequencing Will Change Pregnancy
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Whole-Genome Sequencing Will Change Pregnancy
The world of pregnancy is going to radically change, predicts Noor Siddiqui. “I think that the default way people are going to choose to have kids is via IVF and embryo screening,” she said at the WIRED Health summit last week. “There’s just a massive amount of risk that you can take off of the table.” Siddiqui is the founder and CEO of Orchid, a biotech company that offers whole-genome screening of embryos for IVF.
La Fórmula E quiere electrificar todo el mundo
Desde el final de la 5ta temporada hasta el final de la 15ta, nos propusimos reducir nuestra producción de carbono en un 45%. Que yo sepa, somos el único deporte del mundo que se ha fijado objetivos científicos para auditar eso. La prioridad número uno es producir la menor cantidad posible de carbono; luego, con lo que aún se produzca, la prioridad número dos es compensarlo de manera que genere los mejores beneficios para el planeta. ¿En qué tipo de compensaciones se enfocan?
2024, le 24 cose che hanno reso il mondo un posto migliore
Ammettiamolo: a tratti il 2024 è sembrato un inarrestabile catalizzatore di sventure. La crisi del clima ha guadagnato ulteriore slancio, la Cop 29 ha sottolineato l’assenza di un consenso su cosa fare per affrontarla e i tentativi di creare un trattato contro l'inquinamento da plastica sono falliti. La violenza politica è venuta in superficie negli Stati Uniti e il risultato delle elezioni americane lascia presagire quattro anni di caos e oppressione per molti.
Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral Reopened It’s been a tumultuous year in French politics, but there was at least some good news at the end of 2024: After being badly damaged by a fire in its roof-space in 2019, Notre Dame reopened its doors in December after five years of repair and renovation works. The cathedral boasts a new altar and a dazzling ivory-colored interior. Repair works are continuing on the exterior of the building. Read more on the Guardian.
24 Things That Made the World a Better Place in 2024
Let’s face it—2024 has felt at times like a relentless conveyor belt of doom. The climate crisis is still gaining momentum, COP underlined the lack of consensus on what to do about it, and attempts to create a plastics treaty failed. Political violence rose to the surface in the US, and there was an election result that foretells four years of chaos and persecution for many.
脱炭素化とビジネスは両立できる──1,650の方法で示す未来への道筋
「野心」を抱くことは悪いことではない──特にベルトラン・ピカールにとってはなおさらだ。探検家であり、精神科医であり、環境保護活動家でもあるピカールは、「壮大な行動を起こして、持続可能性を促進する」ことを目指している。（環境負荷を抑えた）“クリーンな未来”を実現できることを証明するためだ。 ピカールは2015年から16年にかけて、太陽光発電のみで飛ぶ飛行機「ソーラー・インパルス」で世界一周を成し遂げたことで有名になった。まさに再生可能エネルギーの可能性を誇示したかたちだ。 しかし、それ以上に野心的だったのは、着陸後にしたことだ。ピカールは自身が設立した財団に対して、環境保護と経済的利益が両立することを実証するように指示したのだ。掲げた目標は、地球を守りながら利益を生み出す方法を1,000通り見つけること。サステナビリティを追求するにはコストがかかるという主張を打破しようという試みだ。...
This man found 1,650 ways to turn a profit while decarbonizing
But even more ambitious was what he attempted after he landed. He tasked his foundation with demonstrating that environmental protection and economic profit can go hand in hand. The goal was to find 1,000 interventions that can protect the planet while also making money, shattering the argument that pursuing sustainability must come at a cost. “The goal is really to show that we can be much more efficient, that we can develop the economy, but in a clean way,” Piccard says. It’s going well.
This Man Found 1,650 Ways to Turn a Profit While Decarbonizing
Bertrand Piccard says sustainability doesn’t have to come at a cost—and that reframing attempts to hit net zero as a way of generating profit could be key to hitting targets.
This Man Found 1,650 Ways to Turn a Profit While Decarbonizing
Ambition is not a dirty word—especially if you’re Bertrand Piccard. The explorer, psychiatrist, and environmentalist aims to “promote sustainability through spectacular actions” to prove that a cleaner future is possible. During 2015 and 2016, he famously circumnavigated the globe in a solar-powered airplane, Solar Impulse, to show off the potential of renewables. But even more ambitious was what he attempted after he landed.
Formula E’s race to get the whole world electrified
| Science | 18s ago Since launching in 2014, the world’s premier EV racing series has made huge technological leaps and gained hundreds of millions of fans. But CEO Jeff Dodds won’t rest until every new car is electric. When Formula E launched, it was ahead of its time. Not in the visionary sense—though it was racing EVs before owning one was cool—but literally: electrification was barely capable of supporting a high-end motorsport.
Formula E’s Race to Get the Whole World Electrified
Since launching in 2014, the world’s premier EV racing series has made huge technological leaps and gained hundreds of millions of fans. But CEO Jeff Dodds won’t rest until every new car is electric.
Formula E’s Race to Get the Whole World Electrified
When Formula E launched, it was ahead of its time. Not in the visionary sense—though it was racing EVs before owning one was cool—but literally: electrification was barely capable of supporting a high-end motorsport. In 2014 Formula E cars were 100 mph slower than those in IndyCar and Formula One, and their batteries lasted only half a race. “You had this crazy kind of triathlon transition, where the drivers jumped out halfway and got into another racing car,” says Jeff Dodds, Formula E’s CEO.
退屈な建築で都市を満たすことがもたらす世界的危機：トーマス・ヘザウィック
トーマス・ヘザウィックには使命がある。世界中の建築家や都市計画家に、つまらない建物で都市をいっぱいにするのをやめさせるべきだと、このデザイナー兼Hetherwick Studioの創設者は考えているのだ。地球の、そしてそこに住む人々の健康は、危機に瀕しているかもしれない。 誰からも愛されない建物を都市計画家が認可しつづければ、そう遠くない未来には支持する人々がいなくなり、無駄に取り壊される建物を大量につくりだすリスクとなるだろう。一方で、喜びが弾け、愛着が生まれ、既存の概念を打ち破るような建物ができれば、何世紀にもわたって維持されることになるはずだ。 それだけでなく、周囲の建物との感情的なつながりについても、人々はもっと理解すべきだとヘザウィックは言う。「人は、建物から影響を受けることをちゃんとわかっています」。とはいえ、それをどう活かせば、社会に寄与するデザインを生み出せるのかはまだわかっていない。「目に映る建物と、わたしたちの感情や健康の相関関係については、まだ科学的な解明が始まったばかりなんです」 今年で10回目となる英国のカンファレンス「WIRED...
The global danger of boring buildings
| Science | 5m ago Unloved buildings turn to ruin, leading to a deluge of construction waste worldwide. Designer Thomas Heatherwick tells WIRED why cities need to prioritize human health and joy in architecture. Thomas Heatherwick is on a mission. The world’s architects and city planners need to be driven to stop filling cities with dull buildings, the designer and founder of Heatherwick Studio believes. The health of the planet—and its population—may be at stake.
The Global Danger of Boring Buildings
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The Global Danger of Boring Buildings
Thomas Heatherwick is on a mission. The world’s architects and city planners need to be driven to stop filling cities with dull buildings, the designer and founder of Heatherwick Studio believes. The health of the planet—and its population—may be at stake. If planners keep sanctioning buildings that nobody loves, then we run the risk of creating a glut of structures that in the not-too-distant future will be wastefully torn down, as there will be no one to advocate for them.
Así daña el cambio climático tu salud... estés donde estés
El calor extremo mata aproximadamente a medio millón de personas al año en todo el mundo, pero al ritmo actual del calentamiento global sería casi cinco veces más mortífero en 2050. Además, están los riesgos sanitarios indirectos del cambio climático: el clima caótico y el aumento de las temperaturas generan catástrofes naturales mortales, propagan enfermedades a nuevas zonas e incrementan la inestabilidad económica y la mala salud mental.
Climate Change Is Bad for Your Health, Wherever You Are
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Climate Change Is Bad for Your Health, Wherever You Are
Governments need to act, and the Lancet Countdown—an international research collaboration that tracks how health is being impacted—is giving decisionmakers undeniable evidence that change is needed right now. “When we talk about climate change, we’re not talking about the future. The cost of inaction is that we pay with people’s lives,” says Marina Romanello, the organization’s executive director. But, she says, we shouldn’t see this just as a doomsday scenario.
Stop Misunderstanding the Gender Health Gap Original
Well, if weight here is being used as a proxy for sex or gender, a larger woman would need the higher dose; a smaller man a lower dose. So why would you just not use weight as the measure for what dose a person should get? That would be a much more effective way of deciding. But because we collect data along certain lines and not others, then guidelines get written along certain lines and not others. To give another example, sometimes women’s pain is not fully appreciated when they come forward.
Stop Misunderstanding the Gender Health Gap
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Emergency Planners Are Having a Moment
Additionally, in a catastrophe, there aren’t any good selections, there are solely least-worse selections. Each choice will include a set of penalties. What the federal government actually struggled to do was mitigate the results of choices they felt that they needed to take. My private view is that what the UK’s going via for the time being, it’s fairly an anticipated stage after a catastrophe. However I wouldn’t wish to cease studying classes from it.
Emergency Planners Are Having a Moment
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Emergency Planners Are Having a Moment Original
Lucy Easthope is a professional emergency planner. She helps governments and businesses prepare for the worst. In the age of the permacrisis, it’s a growing profession. “We’re having a little bit of a—I don’t know if you can call it a renaissance—maybe just a ‘naissance,’” says Easthope, a professor in practice of risk and hazard at the University of Durham. Being ready, Easthope believes, begins with being willing to talk about the worst-case scenario. “It doesn’t need to be frightening.
Es hora de tomar en serio la eliminación de CO2 en el medio ambiente
Para que el mundo alcance el cero neto, es decir, la disminución de las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero hasta que lleguen a ser casi nulas, la eliminación del carbono o CO2 será esencial: sencillamente no hay forma de invertir el impacto de la humanidad sobre el clima sin extraer el carbono de la atmósfera. Actualmente, el mundo tiene la capacidad para absorber cientos de miles de toneladas cada año.
It’s Time to Get Serious About Carbon Removal
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It’s Time to Get Serious About Carbon Removal
For the world to hit net zero, carbon removal is going to be essential—there’s simply no way to reverse humanity’s impact on the climate without extracting carbon from the air. The world currently has the capacity to extract hundreds of thousands of tons of carbon from the air each year. That needs to increase 14,000 times, to 10 billion tons annually, by 2050 if targets are to be met. That kind of scaling feels impossible.
It’s Time to Get Serious About Carbon Removal
If the world is to reach net zero, billions of tons of carbon dioxide need pulling from the air every year. At the moment, the global carbon removal system extracts less than 0.01 percent of that.
EV Batteries Have a Dirty Secret. This Company Has a Plan to Clean Them Up
Here’s the inconvenient truth about your electric vehicle: Making its battery has a big impact on the environment. Producing an EV often generates more emissions than building a conventional car, with the benefits of going electric realized only after a good amount of driving. “Building batteries is creating a very large amount of carbon,” says Peter Carlsson, CEO of European battery manufacturer Northvolt.
EV Batteries Have a Dirty Secret. This Company Has a Plan to Clean Them Up
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Where You Live Is As Important As What You Eat
Tolullah Oni has a challenge for you. Next time you’re in a city—especially one you don’t know well—go for a long run, bike ride, or walk. See if you can tell when you enter an affluent neighborhood. You should, she says, be able to guess. “Suddenly it’s a couple of degrees lower in hot areas. There’s a bit more shade. Separation from traffic is a bit higher.
Where You Live Is As Important As What You Eat
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COVID vaccine weekly: do British teenagers really need vaccinating more than adults overseas?
Close to 40 million people in the UK have had two COVID vaccine doses. This gives Britain one of the highest rates of coverage in the world, with nearly 60% of the population fully vaccinated. And with vaccines soon to be rolled out to 16- and 17-year-olds, this is going to increase further still. Expanding vaccination into younger age groups has an array of benefits, says Alex Richter, professor and honorary consultant in clinical immunology at the University of Birmingham.
COVID vaccine weekly: Reopening will test the strength of England's immunity
Drawing comparisons with the flu vaccine could be a good way to drive COVID-19 vaccine uptake. Credit: Michele Ursi/Shutterstock England has now lifted nearly all of its coronavirus restrictions. Cases are high and rising, but the country's vaccine coverage is among the best the world, meaning that the power of vaccines to control the virus will now be firmly put to the test. How will this battle play out?
reopening will test the strength of England's immunity
England has now lifted nearly all of its coronavirus restrictions. Cases are high and rising, but the country’s vaccine coverage is among the best the world, meaning that the power of vaccines to control the virus will now be firmly put to the test. How will this battle play out? Possibly not very well, argues Zania Stamataki, senior lecturer in viral immunology at the University of Birmingham.
More vaccinated than unvaccinated Britons are now dying from the coronavirus
Credit: Studio Romantic/Shutterstock Coronavirus vaccines lessen the chance of you getting COVID-19 and massively reduce the risk of developing serious illness and being hospitalized. Yet at the same time, most COVID-19 deaths in England are now currently among the vaccinated. Is this a cause for alarm? Put simply, no, says Kit Yates, senior lecturer in mathematical biology at the University of Bath.
COVID vaccine weekly: more vaccinated than unvaccinated Britons are now dying from the coronavirus
Coronavirus vaccines lessen the chance of you getting COVID-19 and massively reduce the risk of developing serious illness and being hospitalised. Yet at the same time, most COVID-19 deaths in England are now currently among the vaccinated. Is this a cause for alarm? Put simply, no, says Kit Yates, senior lecturer in mathematical biology at the University of Bath.
COVID vaccine weekly: England to lift remaining restrictions as planned
England’s final COVID-19 restrictions will lift on July 19, despite cases rising sharply in recent weeks and hospitalisations and deaths creeping up too. With the country facing another wave of infections, is now the right time to be fully opening up? It’s a difficult decision to weigh up, says Andrew Lee, reader in global public health at the University of Sheffield. What’s clear is that vaccines have been central to the government’s thinking.
COVID vaccine weekly: delta variant exposes the flaws of stop-start vaccination programmes
For many countries, vaccine programmes have been one of the great triumphs of the pandemic. But in South Africa, it’s a very different story. To date, fewer than 5% of South Africans have been vaccinated, and the country is now in the grips of another COVID-19 surge as the delta variant takes hold. This puts a focus on the country’s vaccination failures – of which there have been many, says Shabir A Madhi, professor of vaccinology at the University of Witwatersrand.
COVID vaccine weekly: G7 donations unlikely to bring pandemic to an end by 2022
The dust from the G7 summit has settled and big statements have been made: the leaders of the world’s richest democracies have set the target of ending the pandemic by the close of 2022. The question is whether their actions match their words. The G7 nations have pledged 1 billion vaccine doses to lower-income nations, but it’s estimated that 11 billion will be needed to raise global immunity levels sufficiently to suppress the coronavirus.
COVID-19 vaccine weekly: Sharing doses tops the G7 agenda
Governance Nepal has seen a surge in cases but has only vaccinated 2.5% of its population; Peru has the highest COVID-19 death rate per head of population vaccinated only 4% of its population Forging an agreement to get vaccines fully distributed across the world by the end of 2022 will be a top priority at the forthcoming G7 summit, with the UK prime minister Boris Johnson due to formally set out this target when the heads of state meet in Cornwall.
COVID vaccine weekly: sharing doses tops the G7 agenda
Forging an agreement to get vaccines fully distributed across the world by the end of 2022 will be a top priority at the forthcoming G7 summit, with the UK prime minister Boris Johnson due to formally set out this target when the heads of state meet in Cornwall. To meet this target, the G7 countries need to begin distributing surplus vaccines immediately, says Steve Schifferes, honorary research fellow at City, University of London.
COVID vaccine weekly: both vaccine doses needed for good protection against B16172 variant
It’s been a concerning few weeks in the UK, with the B16172 variant first taking hold and then spreading to become dominant. This more infectious form of the virus, initially identified in India, is what we’re now going to have to live with – unless it is out-competed by another variant in the future.
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