Science and Technology
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Good news for people who risk agonizing pain after surgery
Science delivers advances in reducing pain. Saloni Dattani notes that “Suzetrigine (‘Journavx’) became the first non-opioid painkiller for surgical treatment…
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Nuclear plant shut down after earthquake will reopen, saving lives
“Local authorities in Japan’s Niigata prefecture have approved a plan to restart the nuclear power plant at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa, the world’s…
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Taiwan is close to eliminating hepatitis C
“Taiwan has nearly achieved the WHO’s elimination targets for hepatitis C, with diagnosis and treatment rates of roughly 90 percent,”…
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Walmart drone delivery expands to more major cities
“Walmart drone delivery has already begun in Atlanta and is coming to Orlando in early 2026,” reports The Doomslayer. CBS News…
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Scientists cure Alzheimer’s in mice, creating hope that humans may be saved from the disease
“A team of U.S. scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can…
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Space-based solar power advances
“A startup called Overview Energy has completed a major engineering milestone for space-based solar power, successfully beaming energy from a moving…
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Malaria vaccine cuts deaths in refugee camp
“Doctors Without Borders has administered the first full course of the R21 malaria vaccine in Ethiopia, vaccinating 2,100 children in…
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Man makes a beer that’s also a vaccine
“Chris Buck stands barefoot in his kitchen holding a glass bottle of unfiltered Lithuanian farmhouse ale….Buck raises the mug and…
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New earthquake detectors
“Researchers from Nokia Bell Labs have figured out how to use seafloor telecom cables as earthquake detectors, using the existing fiber-optic network…
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Brazil nearly eliminates mother-to-child HIV transmission
“Brazil has cut mother-to-child HIV transmission to under 2 percent, meeting the WHO’s threshold for ‘elimination,'” notes The Doomslayer. The World…
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Critical minerals discovered in Utah desert
“Ionic Mineral Technologies has discovered high concentrations of 16 critical minerals—including lithium, germanium, and cesium—in a clay deposit in Utah. The full extent…
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India passes law to let private companies build and operate nuclear plants
“India’s Parliament has passed a new law allowing private companies to build and operate nuclear reactors in the country, ending decades of tight…
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Canada achieves record harvests despite severe drought
“Despite a severe drought, farmers in Canada are achieving record crop yields thanks to improved agricultural technology like zero-till farming, better drainage,…
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Artificial intelligence is not reducing overall employment
“Recent research from Vanguard finds that AI does not yet seem to be having a strong effect on employment in…
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New obesity drug cuts body weight 29% at high dose, helps with arthritis pain
“In a late-stage trial, Eli Lilly’s experimental obesity drug retatrutide delivered some of the best weight-loss results ever seen. Patients…
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Shingles vaccine may reduce dementia
“A new study strengthens the case that the shingles vaccine might lower dementia risk. By using an age-based rollout in…
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FDA approves new drugs to treat gonorrhea
“The FDA has approved two new oral antibiotics to treat gonorrhea, the first new oral therapies for uncomplicated gonorrhea in…
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Hundreds quarantined in South Carolina measles outbreak, as disease spreads due to declining vaccination rates
At least 126 people have contracted measles in South Carolina. 122 of them were unvaccinated, while three were only partially…
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Agricultural drones spread to poor countries, making farmers’ lives better.
“Agricultural drones are spreading worldwide, especially across East and Southeast Asia. They’re mainly used to spray agrochemicals—a job that, in…
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Geothermal company uses artificial intelligence to discover big energy source
“Zanskar Geothermal and Minerals, a geothermal energy company, has discovered a commercially viable geothermal reservoir in Nevada using an AI…
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Japan uses advanced technology to cope with rising dementia crisis
“Last year, more than 18,000 older people living with dementia left their homes and wandered off in Japan. Almost 500…
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Antimatter production radically increases due to scientific advance
“Researchers at CERN have developed a new technique that can produce over 15 thousand antihydrogen atoms in just a few hours, a major…
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Gene therapy saves children from life of misery and death
“An experimental gene therapy has delivered promising results in a three-year-old boy with Hunter syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that…
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Scientists extract the oldest RNA ever, from 40,000-year-old woolly mammoth; Life in the Ice Age revealed
“Scientists have successfully extracted and sequenced RNA molecules from a ~40,000-year-old frozen woolly mammoth—the oldest RNA ever recovered. RNA can…
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Company achieves self-sustaining nuclear reaction
“Valar Atomics has become the first company in the Department of Energy’s new pilot program to achieve a self-sustaining chain…
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Deadly brain cancer survival times improve with ultrasound
“Researchers in Canada and the US have extended survival for people with glioblastoma, one of the deadliest brain cancers, by…
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Mysterious black fungus from Chernobyl nuclear contamination zone eats radiation
“Mould found at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster appears to be feeding off the radiation. Could we use…
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Scientists engineer wheat that needs less fertilizer, which will reduce pollution and world hunger
“Scientists at UC Davis have created wheat that releases higher levels of apigenin, a plant compound that helps soil bacteria…
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Robots can deliver drugs and then dissolve
“Researchers have built a tiny robot that can move through blood vessels, deliver a dose of drugs to a precise…
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Deregulation saves infant, by permitting life-saving gene therapy
“This spring, a group of doctors used a personalized gene therapy to save an infant with a deadly genetic disorder.…
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Rainmaker seeks to refill depleted Great Salt Lake
“Rainmaker, a US startup, is attempting to use cloud seeding to increase snowfall in Utah, thereby replenishing the Great Salt Lake,”…
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Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough
“A third unvaccinated infant in Kentucky has died of pertussis as public health officials urge Kentuckians to get vaccinated against…
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Israel is refilling the Sea of Galilee with desalinated water from the Mediterranean Sea
“Israel is now pumping desalinated seawater into the drought-stressed Sea of Galilee—apparently the first time in history that desalination has been…
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Drug cures 99% of malaria cases
“There is a new malaria drug for the first time in 25 years: a combination therapy called GanLum, which cured more than…
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Gene therapy cuts bad cholesterol and triglycerides; could help prevent heart attacks
“In an early human trial, a single infusion of a new CRISPR gene therapy cut “bad” LDL cholesterol and triglycerides. In…
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AI Faces Chicken-And-Egg Conundrum
By David Blackmon Which came first, the chicken or the egg? It’s one of the grand conundrums of history, and…
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