Dan Vergano
Trump Wants To Build A Solar Wall With Mexico. Solar Experts Say That’s “Stupid And Pointless.”
Building a massive solar wall bordering Mexico wouldn’t be easy, solar experts said, and makes little economic sense.
Dan Vergano
The New Health Care Bill Would Mean Big Cuts For Opioid Addiction Treatment
Medicaid currently covers 3 in 10 people with an opioid addiction, and faces a proposed $830 billion cut. The new health care bill would, as written, be “a death sentence for millions of Americans,” said one treatment advocate.
Dan Vergano
Scientists Didn’t Stop Their Study Of Premature Babies Even After Finding Out That It Depended On Broken Oxygen Meters
An experiment on 1,300 premature infants continued despite oxygen meters that didn’t work right, public records uncovered by a health advocacy group show.
Dan Vergano
How 2 Science Papers From The ‘80s Helped Spark The Opioid Crisis
The New England Journal of Medicine just issued an odd correction to a 1980 painkiller study. It was one of two papers from that decade that became, as one expert put it, “fake evidence” for pharma executives to encourage the use of opioids.
Dan Vergano
This Drug Is Cheaper And More Powerful Than Heroin — And May Be Killing Way More People
A kilo of heroin nets a dealer $60,000. A kilo of fentanyl? $1.2 million.
Dan Vergano
Republicans And Trump Are Reviving George Bush's Climate Politics
Never mind the climate science, Republicans are back to hoping technology can save the planet.
Dan Vergano
Trump Announced That The US Is Pulling Out Of The Paris Climate Deal
The president called the 2015 international agreement a "deal that punishes the United States," but added that the US will try to negotiate "a deal that's fair."
Dan Vergano
The Descendants Of James Madison’s Slaves Are Digging Up His Plantation
A new exhibition is tying the lives of people enslaved by James Madison, the author of the Bill of Rights, to their living descendants.
Dan Vergano
The US Just Tested Blowing A North Korean Missile Out Of The Sky
The US said on Tuesday that its attempt to destroy a missile capable of reaching North American cities was a success.
Dan Vergano
Uber And Google Are Fighting Over Very Old “Lidar” Technology. Here’s Why.
Lidar, a 54-year-old technology used by most self-driving cars, is now at the center of the Uber-Waymo lawsuit. Here’s how it works.
Dan Vergano
NASA Is Delaying Its Jumbo Space Rocket To 2019
Elon Musk, meanwhile, plans to launch SpaceX's first Falcon Heavy rocket this summer.
Dan Vergano
Hepatitis C Is Turning Up In More Pregnant Women. Here’s Why.
About 35 infants a day in the US are exposed to the virus from infected mothers.
Dan Vergano
A Shocking 51-49 Senate Vote Just Kept Obama's Methane Pollution Rules Alive
The Senate unexpectedly kept an Obama rule preventing leaks from methane drilling on federal lands. The key vote came from John McCain.
Dan Vergano
“Grey Death” Heroin That Looks Like Concrete Is Killing People
A wave of heroin mixed with even more potent drugs is triggering fatal overdoses. The latest example is called “grey death.”
Dan Vergano
Despite Donald Trump, Medical Science Just Got A $2 Billion Boost
“No one wants to vote against such causes as research on cancer, heart disease, and Alzheimer’s,” said one expert.
Dan Vergano
If Donald Trump Told You To Evacuate Your City, Would You?
The public’s mistrust of President Trump might be especially dangerous in a catastrophe rooted in science — like an asteroid, nuclear spill, volcanic eruption, or the next Ebola.
Dan Vergano
Don’t Believe The Big Story About Humans Roaming America 130,000 Years Ago
Scientists are bashing a big study claiming that people lived in the Americas 100,000 years earlier than was thought. "I was astonished by it. I was astonished not because it is so good, but because it is so bad," one said.
Dan Vergano
The Opioid Epidemic Is Actually Two Epidemics
50-year-olds are dying from overdoses of prescription painkillers, while heroin is claiming more people in their 20s.
Dan Vergano
Even By Latin America's Standards, Donald Trump's Approval Ratings Are Bad
Argentina, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela have never had a president so unpopular this early on as Donald Trump.
Dan Vergano
The First NASA Plan Under Trump Will Kill The International Space Station
NASA’s latest Mars plan may be showy enough for Trump, but kills any dreams of landing more astronauts on the moon.
Dan Vergano
