Social media and video networks have become the main source of news in the US, overtaking traditional TV channels and news websites, research suggests. More than half (54%) of people get news from networks like Facebook, X and YouTube – overtaking TV (50%) and news sites and apps (48%), according to the Reuters Institute. “The...
Last October the NY Times published an article that revealed how the science behind Gender Affirming Care for minors actually works. Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, the leading proponent of such care in the US, had been given $10 million in federal research funds to replicate what has become known as the Dutch study, which is really...
“Universities should continue to be able to do research as long as they’re … in sync with the administration,” she said. Universities should ensure that their research output is “in sync” with Trump administration goals in order to keep their federal funding, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said on Wednesday, as scientists across the U.S....
A charity shop in Plymouth described by residents as a community hub is to close in June. The Cancer Research UK shop in Stoke has been trading for more than 35 years but the charity decided in March to close it because it was “no longer a financially viable option”. Councillors in Stoke said they...
Elliot Ball BBC News, South West Reuters A study has found 21% of the world’s oceans have become darker More than a fifth of the global ocean has become darker over the past two decades, according to University of Plymouth research. The process, known as “ocean darkening”, occurs when changes to the ocean’s upper most...
Yesterday, Harvard revoked the tenure of a well-known researcher named Francesca Gino who studies ethics and honesty. Ironically, she has been accused of fabricating data. This is the first time Harvard has stripped a professor of tenure in 80 years. Harvard University revoked the tenure of Harvard Business School professor Francesca Gino after years of...
Alex Green BBC News, Devon Andrea Ormsby BBC News, South West University of Exeter Lord Patrick Vallance said metamaterials would be “everywhere” in the future The University of Exeter is getting £19.6m of funding to improve our lives with “brand new science”. Experts at the university have been selected to host a facility called The...
Well, go figure. When you have a couch that contains $53 billion-plus, it’s not too difficult to find a few million between the cushions. Amusingly, Harvard hasn’t yet realized the implications of their latest chessboard move in their match against the Trump administration: Harvard University is dedicating $250 million of its own funds to support...
Catherine Burns Health correspondent Harriet Agerholm Data journalist BBC GPs are deeply divided over assisted dying, with personal beliefs shaping their views Family doctors in England are deeply divided on the issue of assisted dying, BBC research on plans to legalise the practice suggests. The findings give a unique insight into how strongly many GPs...
“We want to examine whether athletes may be more predisposed to injuries because of the functional changes in terms of their anatomy and physiology during the menstrual cycle,” said Simon Augustus, senior lecturer in sport biomechanics at the university. “We know hormones fluctuate during different phases of the cycle but we don’t yet know how...
A research centre which looks into children’s development has seen almost 8,000 families in the 19 years it has been open, bosses say. The University of Plymouth’s Babylab provides frameworks for supporting children in early life in the UK and around the world. Dr Caroline Floccia, head of the Babylab, said: “We are developing tools...
In 2011, I, Deepti Pradhan, was diagnosed with breast cancer. A year of surgeries, chemotherapy and radiation followed, leaving lasting effects. In December 2023, I, Christine Ngaruiya, got a call from my parents — my mother, a two-time breast cancer survivor, had something suspicious on a routine mammogram. My heart sank. As a physician, I...
This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. The National Institutes of Health will no longer be funding work on the health effects of climate change, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica....
New research has unveiled a distressing reality for individuals relying on Universal Credit in the UK, highlighting a growing crisis of food insecurity that casts a long shadow over their well-being. Of course, amid the Labour government’s plans for £5bn of cuts to chronically ill and disabled people’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) benefits,...