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Big Pharma Is Coming For Your Facebook And Twitter Feeds
If the pharmaceutical industry wants to fully embrace advertising on social media, it'll have to avoid antagonizing the FDA.
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Trials Begin For New Injectable Drug To Prevent HIV
The drug, called cabotegravir, would require only one injection every two months, as opposed to the once-a-day pill Truvada.
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The US And Canada Ban Oil Drilling In Vast Swaths Of Arctic And Atlantic Oceans
President Obama and Canada's Justin Trudeau banned offshore oil leases across large parts of the Arctic and Atlantic oceans. The US added a long stretch of Atlantic coastline as off-limits as well.
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Environmental Donations Are Up Thanks To Trump
Green groups have found a silver lining in Donald Trump’s election win — more members and more money.
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2016 Will Be The Warmest Year, But This Is How Deniers Will Spin It
When opponents of the scientific consensus on climate tell you that global temperatures are plummeting, this is how they are cherry-picking the data.
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Uncertainty Over Brexit Is "Corroding" British Science, Says House Of Lords
In a new report, peers said the government was not doing enough to reassure EU scientists that they have a future in the UK, and that could hurt the economy.
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A Fight Is Just Getting Started On Banning Killer Robots
UN countries will debate how weapons that aim and fire without human control should be used in warfare. But experts are skeptical that such weapons will be banned outright.
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If Trump Cuts Funding For Climate Science, Wealthy Donors Will Spend Billions, Says US Science Academy Chief
Marcia McNutt, president of the nation’s leading scientific body, says wealthy philanthropists will step in, if the Trump administration and Congress pulls research funding.
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Newt Gingrich Says Trump Will Make Opioid Epidemic A Priority
The former House speaker said that Trump is “keenly aware” that the opioid crisis is hitting red states hardest and Republicans would not “leave millions of people in the lurch,” as Obamacare is repealed.
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These Startups Will Pay You For Your DNA
Patients usually don’t earn any money when they contribute to scientific discoveries and therapies. Some genetics startups want to change that.
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Threatened Climate Scientists Split Over How To Survive Trump
More than 20,000 Earth and climate scientists gathered in San Francisco this week, under the shadow of an incoming US administration that seems openly hostile to their work.
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19 Tweets You'll Totally Get If You Google Your Symptoms
"WebMD would be more accurate if every search result diagnosed you as a hypochondriac."
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How Popular Are Your Dinosaur Opinions?
Ankylosaurus fans of the world, unite!
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Scientists Are Freaking Out About Rick Perry Heading The Energy Department
The biggest funder of research in the physical sciences would be helmed by the former Texas governor who once wanted to eliminate the agency.
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Trump Transition Lawyer Has Spent Years Suing For Climate Emails
David Schnare left the Environmental Protection Agency in 2011 after starting a nonprofit that sues universities for climate scientists’ emails. “For some of us, it's in the blood. We commit ourselves to public service and we never stop,“ he said.
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New Survey Finds That Teens Are Doing Fewer Drugs
But, with a painkiller and heroin epidemic raging among adults, some experts argue that national survey results don’t give the full picture.
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19 Chemistrees To Give You Nerdy Christmas Goals
Oh chemistree, oh chemistree...
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Only People Who Got An A* In A Level Science Can Get 15/20 In This Quiz
How much of a clever clogs are you really?
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Rocked By Fake News Crisis, Facebook Is Under Pressure To Open Up To Experts
Facebook has attracted leading social science researchers with its vast trove of user data. But what they publish is tightly controlled.
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Trump’s Most Progressive Pick On Climate Change Is Exxon’s CEO
But critics warn: Pay attention to what Tillerson has done rather than what he has said.
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Trump Names Prominent Climate Denier To His EPA Team
Christopher Horner of the coal-funded Competitive Enterprise Institute, has been named to the presidential transition team overseeing the EPA. "He is a horrifying choice," said one environmental lawyer.
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How Can Trump Cozy Up To Putin? Ask Exxon
The Exxon Mobil chief's bid for secretary of state may signal an end to US sanctions against Russia, say diplomatic observers.
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New Abortion Pamphlet In Texas Pushes False Health Risks, Experts Warn
The pamphlet, which is required to be distributed to all women opting for an abortion, is “medically inaccurate, out of date, and misleading,” one doctor said.
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Reversal Of Standing Rock Victory Might Undermine Environmental Law
The Army Corps’ decision to consider alternate routes for the Dakota Access pipeline was historic and hard-won, but legal experts fear that it could soon be reversed.
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The Battle Over A Revolutionary Gene Tool Headed To Court Today
Who invented the hottest biotech tool in modern history?
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DNA Biohackers Are Giving The FDA A Headache With Glow-In-The-Dark Booze
A biohacker thought he could sell something cool without consequences. The FDA thought otherwise.
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CDC Urges States To Adopt Needle Exchanges To Avoid HIV Outbreaks
Mike Pence’s resistance to needle exchanges during Indiana's HIV outbreak last year “really committed whole communities of people to death,” a public health expert said. State officials defended the response.
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US Civil Rights Commission Will Observe Standing Rock Standoff
"This is to me the closest thing to what we've done since the time that we would go down in the 1960s to the Jim Crow South," the chairman of the US Commission on Civil Rights said.
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Obamacare Repeal Will Bring Lean Times To 9,000 Clinics For The Poor
Community health centers thrived under Obamacare. “We have the most to lose,” one health network chief said.
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