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Opinion: How the insurance system quietly undoes recovery from addiction

Strategic angle: People who have been stable for years are suddenly re-exposed to risk — not because their disease worsened, but because their coverage did.

Editorial Staff Apr 7

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Opinion: STAT+: Former Geisinger CEO: U.S. health systems must replace huge numbers of people with AI

Strategic angle: “Health care will become autonomous because the survival of health systems depends upon it,” writes former Geisinger CEO Glenn Steele.

Editorial Staff Apr 7

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Research Revealing How the Brain Flushes Waste Named STAT Madness Editors’ Pick

Strategic angle: For researcher Maiken Nedergaard, ‘diseases of aging are basically all about dirty brains’

Editorial Staff Apr 7

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University of Michigan wins 2026 STAT Madness for new insights into abdominal aortic aneurysms

Strategic angle: The researchers identified a driving force behind the condition, opening up a potential target for new therapies.

Editorial Staff Apr 7

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Lunar crater named after Artemis commander's deceased wife

Strategic angle: Artemis astronauts honor the memory of Reid Wiseman's late wife by proposing a lunar crater name.

Editorial Staff Apr 7

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As Iran war exposes global dependence on fossil fuels, the biggest emitters are reaping the rewards

Strategic angle: Worst polluters hold world’s future in their hands as they benefit from higher fossil fuel prices, but global trends favour renewables Oil stands at about $110 a barrel and some forecasts have predicted it could reach $1

Editorial Staff Apr 7

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Origins of Earth's most powerful ocean current revealed

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current transports over 100 times more water than all of Earth's rivers combined.

Editorial Staff Apr 7

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GMO pictures may reinforce existing views, deepening the divide of attitudes towards them

Strategic angle: Images have long played a powerful role in shaping public perceptions of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), often reinforcing emotional reactions more than scientific understanding. A new experimental study published

Editorial Staff Apr 7

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Scientists found a “lost world” of animals that shouldn’t exist yet

Strategic angle: A remarkable fossil discovery in southwest China is rewriting the story of how complex animal life began, showing that many key animal groups appeared millions of years earlier than scientists once believed. Dating back

Editorial Staff Apr 7

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Scientists discover the “Goldilocks” secret behind life on Earth

Strategic angle: Earth may have won a cosmic chemistry lottery. Researchers found that during the planet’s earliest formation, oxygen had to be in an extremely narrow “Goldilocks zone” for two life-essential elements, phosphorus and nitr

Editorial Staff Apr 7

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This “forbidden” exoplanet has an atmosphere scientists can’t explain

Strategic angle: A strange “forbidden” planet spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope is turning planetary science on its head. TOI-5205 b, a Jupiter-sized world orbiting a small, cool star, has an atmosphere surprisingly poor in heavy

Editorial Staff Apr 7

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New method rapidly analyzes cell proteins and metabolites

Strategic angle: Researchers at Cedars-Sinai have developed a fast, new technique for analyzing cells, described in the journal Angewandte Chemie. The approach, called single-injection multi-omics analysis by direct infusion (SMAD), can

Editorial Staff Apr 7

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Artemis 2 ready to fly around the moon

The Artemis 2 mission will swing around the moon April 6, setting a distance record as astronauts study part of the lunar farside. The post Artemis 2 ready to fly around the moon appeared first on SpaceNews.

Editorial Staff Apr 7

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How an eye physician who translated classical Greek medicine into Arabic helped form Western medical thought

Strategic angle: A medieval ophthalmologist who translated Greek works by Galen, Hippocrates, and Plato into Arabic played a pivotal role in shaping Western medical scholarship, according to a study published in the journal Cogent Arts a

Editorial Staff Apr 7

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By age 7, most children quickly spot individuals' social biases toward social groups, study finds

Strategic angle: Most elementary school-aged children have a surprising cognitive ability: they can detect—nearly as well as adults—when someone treats people from one social group differently than another. The study, "Children's and adu

Editorial Staff Apr 7

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The brain might not create consciousness after all

Strategic angle: Is consciousness something the brain produces, or is it woven into the fabric of reality itself? Renowned neuroscientist Christof Koch is challenging long-held scientific assumptions by confronting the “hard problem” of

Editorial Staff Apr 6

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3D-printed 'spanlastics' could change how cancer drugs reach tumors

Strategic angle: University of Mississippi research offers hope that cancer drug therapies packaged in 3D-printed carriers could deliver medication directly to tumors while reducing many of the side effects that cancer patients endure. I

Editorial Staff Apr 6

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Scientists discover hidden brain switch that tells you to stop eating

Strategic angle: Your brain’s “stop eating” signal may come from an unexpected source. Researchers found that astrocytes—once thought to just support neurons—actually play a key role in controlling appetite. After a meal, glucose trigger

Editorial Staff Apr 6

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Study finds 70% of remediated Los Angeles yards still exceed lead limit

Strategic angle: Even after one of the largest environmental remediation efforts in California history, dangerous levels of lead persist in residential neighborhoods surrounding a former battery smelter in Southeast Los Angeles, accordin

Editorial Staff Apr 6

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Review details photocatalyst–biocatalyst systems for semi-artificial photosynthesis

Strategic angle: A new review from Osaka Metropolitan University (OMU) summarizes the biocatalysts involved in semi-artificial photosynthesis, an exciting research field that combines natural photosynthesis with artificial technology to

Editorial Staff Apr 6