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An ambitious proposal to build a waste-to-energy facility in Fiji that could take in hundreds of thousands of tonnes of trash from Australia and other Pacific countries has sparked a public backlash and claims of “waste colonialism”.The proposed $900 million incinerator is being touted by Australian billionaire Ian Malouf, and the facility could reportedly supply up to 45 per cent of Fiji’s electricity grid needs, helping end its dependence on fossil fuel imports.Vuda Point’s incinerator can generate up to 80 megawatts of electricity per year, depending on the amount of trash being burned, and will be powered by a deep-water…

Vani Hari has 2.3 million followers on Instagram and just as many ideas for healthy food swaps. Hari, an entrepreneur and influential food activist with the “Make America Healthy Again” movement, regularly speaks out about snack alternatives containing corn syrup, seed oils and other ingredients on the blacklist of health-conscious Americans.For Valentine’s Day, YumEarth’s chocolate yams will replace artificially dyed M&Ms. (“Let me tell you these treats are better, but they’re still candy,” Hari writes.) For a Super Bowl party, avocado oil potato chips from Jackson’s instead of Lay’s. Looking for a less processed alternative to Chick-fil-A’s frosted lemonade? Why…

This article is published through the Indigenous News Alliance. On the second day of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples (UNPFII), experts called attention to the deep links between the health of indigenous peoples and nature, highlighting how environmental degradation, mining activities and climate change exacerbate health inequalities. The forum’s focus on Indigenous health follows new research by Jeffrey Ross, a descendant of the Standing Rock Sioux and former Permanent Forum member, which argues that the United Nations agency’s fragmented approach – addressing health, environment and land rights through separate mandates – has “consistently failed Indigenous peoples”. The…

Scientists have introduced a new method to track ocean surface currents over vast areas in much more detail than before. The technology, known as GOFLOW (Geostationary Ocean Flow), uses deep learning to analyze thermal images captured by weather satellites already in orbit. Because this method relies on existing satellites, it represents a major advance in ocean monitoring without the need for new equipment in space. The study was led by Luc Lenain of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, and Kaushik Srinivasan, a Scripps alumnus now at the University of California, Los Angeles. Their…

A research team led by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has developed a pioneering artificial intelligence (AI) pathology analysis system that can accurately recognize multiple types of cancer without requiring additional training and using minimal samples. This breakthrough greatly increases the flexibility and efficiency of AI-assisted medicine and represents a major step toward widespread adoption of intelligent pathology. Approximately 20 million new cancer cases are diagnosed worldwide each year, and pathological examinations play a vital role in clinical diagnosis and treatment decision-making. However, with a severe global shortage of pathologists, the medical community increasingly needs innovative…

A new generation of artificial intelligence (AI) tools has the potential to save more patients in need of heart transplants by making better use of donor hearts that are currently discarded, according to research presented today by Brian Weida, MD, at the 46th Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT). “There is a significant shortage of heart donors in the United States, and patients are waiting months or more for transplants, often requiring life support in the ICU, so the risks are very high,” said Dr. Weida, an assistant professor at New…

Identifying new species is not always easy. Scientists typically rely on physical characteristics that distinguish one species from another, but in nature, those differences do not always fall into appropriate categories. In some cases, two different species can look nearly identical. These are called cryptic species. In some cases, a single species can vary so much in appearance that it appears to be several different species. The challenge is even greater when both patterns emerge at the same time. Herpetologist Dr Chan Kin Ong, formerly with the Lee Kong Chian Museum of Natural History in Singapore and now with the…

The Individual Brain Charting (IBC) project has released its fifth and largest update of high-resolution fMRI data, adding a new set of cognitive tasks to one of the most detailed brain mapping datasets currently available. This dataset is openly accessible through EBRAINS and is described in a new publication in the journal Nature. scientific data. The new release expands the dataset to include 18 tasks collected from 11 participants under tightly controlled and standardized conditions, many of which capture nearly 40 hours of scan data each. The IBC project was started in 2014 and was funded by the Human Brain…

Dr. Christian Benden, a pediatric lung transplant specialist, described the future of children needing lung transplants as a reduction in the overall number of surgeries but an increasing challenge for more complex patients and the teams caring for them. He was speaking today at the 46th Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) in Toronto. Worldwide, fewer than 100 pediatric lung transplants are performed each year in patients under 18 years of age, compared with nearly 5,000 in adults. At his own institution, Boston Children’s Hospital, only two pediatric lung transplants were…

Older men who receive federal housing assistance when they are first diagnosed with prostate cancer are more likely to survive two years than demographically and clinically similar men who do not receive the assistance, a new UCLA-led study suggests. The findings, to be published in the peer-reviewed National Cancer Institute Journal, suggest that expanding housing subsidies could lead to improved survival odds for prostate cancer patients who are unable to find affordable housing due to socioeconomic factors. Prostate cancer causes more than 36,000 deaths each year, making it the second leading cause of cancer-related death among men in the United…