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Doctors continue to warn about Big Pharma's influence on medical journals, publish alternative
It’s not only what the journals publish – it’s also what they refuse to publish that matters, warns Dr. Joseph Varon, a critical care specialist and president of the Independent Medical Alliance.
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Musk says SpaceX to focus on building self-growing city on moon first, then Mars
The Musk-owned SpaceX is a private enterprise, compared to the the federal agency NASA, which has for decades led the United States' space exploration program.
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Industry built on idea of longer life with tech like cryonics now focuses on cancer, transplants
Cryonics is the process of preserving a legally deceased person's body at extremely low temperatures using liquid nitrogen.
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Watchdog claims Biden-era DoD grants are going to research using human fetus parts in animal tests
The watchdog White Coat Waste (WCW) found that the Defense grants are being used to fund experiments that implant parts of aborted human fetuses, including fingers and scalps, into lab animals.
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US, Japan scientists win Nobel medicine prize for immune system research discoveries
The winners are Mary Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell from the U.S., and Shimon Sakaguchi from Japan
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New research suggests Saturn moon is habitable
Researchers looked back at old data and found fascinating results
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Sports medicine doctors support female athletes, state bans on males in girls' sports at SCOTUS
Physiology of sex regardless of hormone interventions makes it practically impossible for females to match males, and nature of athletic injuries particularly threatens females, physicians say. Human rights advocates support females.
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Famed Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell dies at 97
Lovell was part of a total of four space missions: Gemini VII, Gemini XII, Apollo 8 and Apollo 13.
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SpaceX rocket experiences 'rapid unscheduled disassembly' during test flight
The latest disassembly marked the third time that a SpaceX rocket exploded during test flights. The first incident occurred in January, and the second occurred in March, which saw the rocket disassemble just minutes after take-off.
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Harrowing confrontation between contractors led to Fort Detrick bio-lab shutdown, NIH boss reveals
The incident sparked safety concerns that led the new NIH Director to order the lab temporarily closed and open a new probe over its safety practices.
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Elon Musk claims Trump's proposed cuts to NASA's budget are 'troubling'
The bulk of the cuts are from the agency's Science Mission Directorate, which oversees all planetary science, Earth science, heliophysics, and astrophysics research.
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NASA astronauts splash down in Gulf of America off Florida coast after assist from Musk’s SpaceX
The two astronauts were stranded in the International Space Station after their Boeing spacecraft experienced safety issues.
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Experts warn two US volcanoes could erupt soon after increase in seismic activity
Monitoring stations around Mount Adams noted nine earthquakes ranging from magnitude 0.9 to 2.0 near the volcano between September and October of 2024.