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Mice that contain cells with an added rat chromosome have been created by scientists. The next step is to try this with frozen elephant tissue – and if that works, the team will try it with frozen mammoths
<p>Russian crew member attempting to fix a worsening leak of air on its portion of the orbital laboratory, NASA said</p><p>The <strong>International Space Station</strong> is an orbital laboratory located about 250 miles above Earth.</p><p>It is operated by five partner space agencies: the American <strong>National Aeronautics and Space administration (Nasa)</strong>, the <strong>Canadian Space agency (Csa)</strong>, the <strong>European Space Agency (Esa)</strong>, the <strong>Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Jaxa)</strong> and the Russian <strong>State Space Corporation “Roscosmos”</strong>.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/live/2026/jun/05/international-space-station-astronauts-evacuation-air-leak-latest-news-updates">Continue reading...</a>
Report: FDA just launched a study on the abortion pill
The FDA’s ongoing review of mifepristone could skip over established science, health experts warn
By Jackie Flynn Mogensen edited by Clara Moskowitz
The Trump administration is officially conducting an investigation into the safety of the abortion pill mifepristone, the Wall Street Journal reports . Health experts worry that the process may be politically motivated rather than based on science.
Mifepristone has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration since 2000 and is widely considered by health professionals to be safe and effective . Last year Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., announced plans to review mifepristone’s safety, citing concerns over a pandemic-era policy that has allowed the medication to be prescribed via telehealth. After months with no apparent movement on the review, the Trump administration faced criticism from antiabortion advocates, who urged the administration to pick up the pace.
Now the FDA appears to be accelerating that process. “The evidence has never been in question,” says Ushma Upadhyay, a professor in the department of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, who has studied the safety of online abortion services. “Mifepristone, when delivered via telehealth, is as safe and effective as in-person care. It is well supported by research and can be a lifeline to many who need this care but can’t get it at a clinic or office.”
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“If done with integrity, the FDA’s review should confirm its safety and preserve people’s access to this essential care,” she adds.
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Elizabeth Rizzini looks at the prospects for seeing a spectacular planetary conjunction.
<p>Nasa says Russian crew trying to fix worsening air leak in its portion of orbital laboratory</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/live/2026/jun/05/international-space-station-astronauts-evacuation-air-leak-latest-news-updates">International Space Station air leak: latest updates</a></p></li></ul><p>Astronauts onboard the International Space Station have been ordered to shelter in their spacecraft and prepare for potential evacuation as a Russian crew attempts to fix a worsening leak of air in its portion of the orbital laboratory, Nasa has said.</p><p>The four astronauts of Nasa’s Crew-12 mission on the station – two US astronauts, a French astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut – received orders from Nasa mission control at 9.04am ET (2pm BST) on Friday to enter their Crew Dragon spacecraft docked to the station and don their spacesuits in case the air leak warranted an emergency evacuation, a Nasa official said.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/05/international-space-station-astronauts-under-evacuation-orders">Continue reading...</a>
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<p>När människor skadas i fjällmiljö krävs snabb och kvalificerad vård – men lagstiftningen i Sverige försvårar arbetet. Trots sin kompetens och medicinska utbildning får sjuksköterskor som arbetar som fjällräddare inte ge läkemedel i akuta situationer, visar ny forskning från Umeå universitet.</p>
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In the 1960s, worm-training experiments and their strange implications captivated the nation. Columnist Claire L. Evans follows the neuroscientists who attempted to recapture the magic. <p>The post <a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/are-memories-transferable-or-edible-20260605/" target="_blank">Are Memories Transferable — or Edible?</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org" target="_blank">Quanta Magazine</a></p>
NASA expects to begin stacking the SLS rocket this summer for next year's Artemis III launch.
Overpressure from the Blue Origin blast shattered windows at a hangar about a mile away from the pad.
RevMed's cancer drug feels out of reach for some, SCOTUS preserves key generic drug pathway, and more biotech news
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The limitations of private health insurance, the quiet collapse of America's research ethics watchdog and other Morning Rounds news
Drugmakers and patient groups asked the FDA to pause former commissioner Marty Markary's National Priority Voucher drug review program
The deep-sea octopus is fully mature despite fitting in a palm, a trait researchers think may help it reproduce faster than larger relatives.
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<p>Trots att utevistelse i alla väder är en etablerad del i svenska förskolor visar resultaten från en ny studie att väderförhållanden ändå har ett tydligt <a class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemBody> Två saker verkar hänga ihop – när den ena ändras, ändras ofta den andra också. Men det betyder inte att den ena orsakar den ...</div><div class=glossaryTooltipMoreLinkWrapper><a class=glossaryTooltipMoreLink href=https://forskning.se/ordlista/korrelation/ >Läs mer</a></div>" href="https://forskning.se/ordlista/korrelation/" data-mobile-support="0" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{"attribute":"data-cmtooltip", "format":"html"}]' tabindex='0' role='link'>samband</a> med hur mycket barn rör sig och är stilla. Totalt ingick över 3 300 barn i åldern tre till fem år från förskolor i Stockholmsområdet i s…
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<p>Stormen Dave som drog in över norra Europa i påskhelgen är ett färskt exempel på vad ny forskning från Göteborgs universitet visar. Vårstormar som bildas över Nordatlanten har blivit vanligare än för 80 år sedan och det beror på klimatförändringarna.</p>
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Giant black holes may be the universe’s best planet makers
Planets might exist in the least likely place you’d imagine—around the outskirts of supermassive black holes
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With about 6,300 exoplanets discovered so far and more than 10,000 candidates awaiting confirmation , it’s easy to forget the ones that started it all: the very first exoplanets discovered and announced in 1992 . These worlds were not orbiting stars like the sun. Instead they circled a pulsar, the dead remains of an exploded star. This is one of the last places in the universe astronomers expected to find planets—a pulsar is the remnant from a supernova, after all—and it’s still unclear how these worlds formed.
Clearly nature excels at making planets, even under extremely hostile conditions. Just how “hostile” those conditions can be, however, no one knows yet. Planets like those in our solar system form from whirling disks of gas and dust around baby stars, but disks are common around another kind of astrophysical object, too: black holes. Could planets be born there as well or at least emigrate from elsewhere and survive in their new neighborhood?
The answer, astonishingly, is “maybe,” though it depends on what kind of black hole we’re talking about.
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For stellar-mass black holes—which, like pulsars, are forged in the collapsing core of an exploding massive star—there are some caveats. For example, when a massive star goes supernova, a majority of its matter is flung out into space. If enough matter is lost, the star’s gravity will be sufficiently weakened so that it can’t hold on to any extant planets, and they, too, will be lost to space. If any planets do survive t…
How breast cancer screening can predict heart disease risk
AI analysis of mammograms could provide a “bonus finding” for heart disease
By Lauren J. Young edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier
Mammograms, which are key to detecting breast cancer , could be paired with artificial intelligence to predict heart disease risk, too. Researchers have developed an AI model that scans mammograms to quantify bright streaks of calcium buildup, a marker of stiffened breast artery tissues. The severity of these so-called breast arterial calcifications (BAC) can help to predict associated heart disease risk, researchers report in the European Heart Journal . The model “can be run on every single mammogram without any additional work,” says study co-author Hari Trivedi, an Emory University radiologist—and more than 40 million mammograms are conducted in the U.S. every year.
Breast cancer can leave behind tiny calcium deposits as cells rapidly die. On a mammogram, these appear as small clusters—an early sign of abnormal growth and tumors. Breast arterial calcifications look strikingly different, often showing up as two bright “railroad-track” stripes zigzagging through the breast tissue, Trivedi says. BAC itself doesn’t harm breast tissue or increase the risk of breast cancer, he says. But it could signify that calcification is developing elsewhere in the body—and that’s an indicator of potential heart disease because stiffening vessels mean poorer circulation.
Other research groups have investigated using mammograms to assess heart disease risk, and some radiologists look out for BAC during screenings, but Trivedi says his team’s model offers the first way to measure and track the amount of BAC and tie that amount to higher disease risk. (Other AI-powered BAC-detection tools exist, including one cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, but quantifying the specific amount makes it possible to further predict risk level, he adds.)
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<p>Experts say dismantling the ocean observation system will ‘severely degrade’ the accuracy of weather predictions</p><p>The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/02/trump-administration-ocean-observatories-initiative">Trump administration’s plan</a> to dismantle an ocean observation system vital to understanding the climate crisis and marine ecosystems would “severely degrade” the accuracy of weather predictions and El Niño forecasts, with economic consequences for the US, European and American scientists have warned.</p><p>Decommissioning the US system, which plays a major part in a global ocean observation network, would lead to a massive increase in error in the annual estimates of ocean heating rates, according to <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-026-02661-6">research published last month</a>.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/05/trump-plan-ocean-monitoring-system-concern-scientists">Continue reading...</a>
Inside the multiyear effort to rename PCOS
A physician involved in the long push to change the name PCOS to PMOS takes us behind the scenes of this subtle yet consequential change
By Rachel Feltman , Sushmita Pathak & Alex Sugiura
Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American ’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman.
As you may recall from one of our recent news roundup episodes , the condition long known as polycystic ovary syndrome, or PCOS, is in the process of getting an official rebrand. The new name—polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome, or PMOS—was crafted with the intention of minimizing misconceptions about the disease and increasing the accuracy of diagnoses. But while changing one letter in an acronym might seem like a small shift, this new name is the result of years of international collaboration between clinicians, patients and even marketing consultants.
Today’s guest, Anuja Dokras, was one of the leaders of this 14-year effort . She’s the director of the recently renamed Penn PMOS Center at Penn Medicine in Philadelphia. She’s also the Founder’s Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Women’s Health at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Feltman: Thank you so much for coming on to talk with us today.
Feltman: In reading about this name change, I was really impressed at what a huge, multiyear, you know, international effort it was. I would love to start with just sort of, when this began.
When did you and your colleagues start to talk about this being an issue that needed to be addressed?
Dokras: Yeah. So this began in 2012. We had a meeting at the NIH, the National Institutes of Health. It was a multidisciplinary meeting on PCOS, as it was called then. We had made a significant amount of research progress…
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<p>Celiaki är en autoimmun sjukdom där kroppens immunförsvar reagerar på gluten. Dermatitis herpetiformis, även kallad hudceliaki, är en hudmanifestation av samma sjukdom och ger kliande blåsor och utslag. Tidigare forskning om långsiktiga hälsorisker vid dessa tillstånd har gett motstridiga resultat, särskilt utanför Europa. Nu har forskare analyserat journaldata från USA mellan 2005 och 2025. Totalt […]</p>
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A seemingly simple set of rules kicks off a kind of mathematical magic trick, which has kept great minds busy since the 1930s. Columnist Jacob Aron explores the origins of the Collatz conjecture, why it is so addictive to mathematicians and whether AI could help us solve it once and for all
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<p>Resultaten från SOM-undersökningen visar på nedgångar i andelen som umgås med vänner regelbundet samt i andelarna som anser att vänskap och kärlek är särskilt viktiga värden. Trots detta känner sig svenskarna överlag inte mer ensamma idag än för tio år sedan. Upplevd ensamhet är fortsatt negativt för välmåendet, men att bo i ensamhushåll eller att inte träffa vänner ofta har idag närmast positiva effekter.</p>
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OHRP has experienced an unprecedented exodus of ethics expertise, raising concerns about its ability to effectively protect volunteers.