Selling a Mirage: The Delusion of Advanced Plastic Recycling Using Pyrolysis
Here’s an inconvenient truth: Not much is being recycled at all, nor is the pyrolysis technology capable of curbing the plastic crisis. Not now. Maybe not ever.
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How to Mend the Bias on Older Women’s Health
Medical research has shortchanged women for decades, leaving physicians without critically important information about how to best manage older women’s health.
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Air in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Is Even Worse Than Expected, Real-Time Data Show
Ethylene oxide levels in the heart of Louisiana’s Cancer Alley are more than double the threshold above which the EPA considers cancer risk to be unacceptable.
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‘Creamy Crack’ — Why Relaxers Are Still Being Pushed on Black Women
Linda Villarosa spent a year going to the root of the hair relaxer problem. Here are takeaways on why Black women are being harmed — and what’s being done.
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The Chicken and Egg Problem of Fighting Another Flu Pandemic
Avian flu infections in multiple species far and wide raise the threat that further mutations could create a virus that spreads from human to human through airborne transmission. If they do, pandemic prevention starts with the egg — or alternatives still under research.
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