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US Justice Department says two employees of Russia’s RT secretly paid $10m to Tennessee-based media outlet., US Justice Department says two employees of Russia’s RT secretly paid $10m to Tennessee-based media outlet. The United States has announced a range of actions to combat Russian efforts to influence the 2024 presidentialContinue Reading

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image credit The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Publich Health SUMMARY In August 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized bivalent COVID-19 vaccine formulations as single booster doses. These bivalent formulations contain messenger RNA (mRNA) from the original SARS-CoV-2 strain and mRNA present in the BA.4 and BA.5Continue Reading

here’s-what-we-know-about-how-climate-change-impacts-hurricanes-–-and-what-we-don’t

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There are some aspects of climate science that are clear-cut. It is, for instance, “unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land,” according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.[1] As human activities emit greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, those greenhouse gas concentrations have increased, causing globalContinue Reading

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Back in December 2021, Science Feedback conducted a quick check on the extent to which Google’s then-new policy on demonetizing climate change denial content was enforced. Our study focused on videos published on Youtube. We first found that Google’s policy was too narrow: about half of the videos that scientistsContinue Reading