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Daily pill can double survival time for world’s deadliest cancer, trial shows | Pancreas cancer

Daily pill can double survival time for world’s deadliest cancer, trial shows | Pancreas cancer

Published by Sam Flores

A daily pill can double survival time in patients with the world’s deadliest cancer, according to the results of a clinical trial that experts are saying is a “gamechanger” and one of the biggest breakthroughs in decades. Currently, there are few treatments for pancreatic cancer, and most do little or nothing to help. For decades, scientists have worked relentlessly trying to find clever solutions for a form of cancer that is often found late. More than half of patients are only diagnosed after it has spread. Now experts at the world’s largest cancer conference are hailing the arrival of a smart drug called daraxonrasib, which they say could pave the way for a treatment revolution. In the trial of 500 patients, all of whom had pancreatic cancer that had spread, the pill doubled survival time, with fewer side-effects compared with chemotherapy. The findings were presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s (Asco) annual meeting in Chicago. Patients who took the drug lived substantially longer, for an average of 13.2 months, compared with 6.6 to …

Four L.A. restaurants recognized on World’s 50 Best North America list

Four L.A. restaurants recognized on World’s 50 Best North America list

Published by Sam Flores

The 50 Best brand, known for its set of prestigious global dining guides curated by over 1,000 culinary experts, just revealed its top 50 restaurants in North America, with nine California picks and four Los Angeles restaurants. The results were announced at an awards ceremony in New Orleans on Thursday night, with 50 restaurants ranked across the U.S. and Canada. Returning Los Angeles restaurants on the list include Holbox, Kato and Providence, as well as Atelier Crenn, Saison and Benu in San Francisco. New additions include Somni in West Hollywood, Addison by William Bradley in San Diego, and Sons and Daughters in San Francisco. Addison is featured on restaurant critic Bill Addison’s guide to the 101 best restaurants in California list, as well as Benu and Atelier Crenn. Somni, originally a collaboration between chefs José Andrés and Aitor Zabala, is praised for its intimate dining experience and Spanish-influenced tasting menu, earning a place on The Times’ most recent 101 Best Restaurants guide. Zabala reopened the restaurant as the sole proprietor in December 2024 after four …

The world’s largest fungus is hiding in Oregon’s Blue Mountains — and its really big

The world’s largest fungus is hiding in Oregon’s Blue Mountains — and its really big

Published by Jenni Sidey

In Oregon’s Blue Mountains, patches of dying trees once looked like separate outbreaks, scattered across ridges and drainages as if disease had struck at random. Instead, scientists found something far stranger beneath the soil: many of those distant pockets belonged to the same fungus. That fungus, Armillaria ostoyae, covered about 9.65 square kilometers, making it the largest known individual fungus on Earth at the time of the study. It had likely been growing there for at least 1,900 years, and possibly as long as 8,650. For researchers, the discovery did more than set a record. It challenged a basic biological idea: what counts as an individual. “It’s one organism that began as a microscopic spore and then grew vegetatively, like a plant,” said Dr. Catherine Parks, a research plant pathologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and coordinator of the team. “From a broad scientific view, it challenges what we think of as an individual organism.” Scientists say their DNA tests prove that a single Armillaria organism covers nearly 3 1/2 square miles …

Photos show the world’s ‘uncounted’ people : NPR

Photos show the world’s ‘uncounted’ people : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

July 1, 2025. Sirajganj, Bangladesh Mothers who lacked birth certificates for themselves and family members hold up the newly obtained documents after a drive in Dhamainagar Union, part of a campaign to get people to register so they are eligible for social safety new programs. Juan Arredondo hide caption toggle caption Juan Arredondo “The Uncounted” is the name of a project by the Colombian-American photographer and filmmaker Juan Arredondo. That title refers to people who have no life cycle records. No birth certificate. No death certificate. Or in some cases, the document may exist but finding a copy is like trying to climb Mount Everest. Arredondo traveled to six countries to explore the importance of these records and the impact of their absence. His photos are currently part of the sprawling open-air Photoville exhibition in Brooklyn, New York, open through May 30. Every unrecorded birth means a life without a legal identity and all the rights, services and protections that come with it. June 11, 2025. Musanze District, Rwanda Goodlive Nyiramajyambere (left), Hosee Nziyonemeye (center) …

Phil Hogan emerges as front-runner in EU race for world’s biggest food agency – POLITICO

Phil Hogan emerges as front-runner in EU race for world’s biggest food agency – POLITICO

Published by Sam Flores

Hogan, Planas and Martina did not respond to requests for comment. The danger of dithering The EU’s agriculture ministers tried to settle which of the three should represent the bloc, but couldn’t agree. For six months, Cyprus, which has chaired the meetings, pressed them to coalesce around one name, but Cypriot Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou told POLITICO that no decision had been made on how to move it forward. The choice will now be made by EU leaders, possibly folded into a broader deal over other top international posts. That pushes any decision to a European Council summit, with the FAO race playing only a small part in the late-night horse-trading. The risk is that the deadlock holds and the EU enters the 2027 vote divided. “The most important thing is to pick one from these candidates,” Polish Agriculture Minister Stefan Krajewski told POLITICO. “Because otherwise, we may lose, and a candidate from outside the EU could win.” Three African contenders are already in the field, including Morocco’s Ismahane Elouafi, the FAO’s former chief scientist, …

How a new extraction process could unlock the world’s lithium

How a new extraction process could unlock the world’s lithium

Published by skeptic

“At scale, we believe this will be the lowest-cost way of sourcing lithium in the world,” says Yet-Ming Chiang, one of the study authors, who is an MIT professor and a serial entrepreneur behind climate tech companies including Form Energy and Addis Energy. The most economical way to get lithium currently is to extract it from brine, salty water that’s pulled the metal out of rock over the course of millennia. But this technique is geographically limited and currently requires vast tracts of land for massive evaporation pools. The more common tactic is hard-rock mining, where large bodies of ore are blasted apart, cooked at high temperatures, and processed using dangerous chemicals. The researchers’ new method uses a weak acid to dissolve typically nonreactive silicate minerals. That frees not only the lithium but also other useful materials, including alumina and silica. The origin story for this research, and the resulting company, came from another startup founded by Chiang, Sublime Systems, which makes cement using electrochemistry. The team was trying to find a source of highly …

The world’s largest RC Boeing 777-9X takes flight

The world’s largest RC Boeing 777-9X takes flight

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy. You may unsubscribe at any time. Popular YouTuber and aircraft enthusiast Ramy RC built and flew what he’s calling the world’s largest remote-controlled (RC) version of a Boeing 777-9X jet. It’s not just big for an RC toy, it’s big, period.  With a wingspan of 33 feet and weighing 630 pounds, it’s roughly the same size as a human-piloted Cessna 150. The RC Boeing 777-9X may look  identical to the real aircraft on the outside, but the plane is made mostly out of CNC-milled foam and carbon fiber. It has five actuators controlling the flaps, working landing gear, and is fully electric. In testing, the behemoth was able to taxi around a tarmac, lift off, and land several times. We built a giant RC Boeing 777X Complete build and …

What happened when Richard Madeley visited the world’s most dangerous prison in El Salvador

What happened when Richard Madeley visited the world’s most dangerous prison in El Salvador

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Youth Hostelling with Chris Eubank, Arm Wrestling with Chas and Dave and Richard Madeley: Inside the World’s Mega Prison. They all sound like Alan Partridge’s TV pitches and yet, just two of them are. The third is an actual programme that aired on Channel 5 last night, presented by the closest real-life presenter we have to Steve Coogan’s comedy creation: Richard Madeley. The gloriously gaffe-prone broadcaster, who once told Russell Watson he thought his music was “a bit crap” and said “there are not many better things than seeing an older woman skipping”, headed to El Salvador for the documentary to visit CECOT – a 57-acre prison that’s considered to be the harshest and most controversial in the world. The largest maximum security prison in Latin America, CECOT can hold up to 40,000 inmates, all of whom will spend the rest …

The world’s first ‘hovertrain’ could reach speeds of 270 mph in the 1960s

The world’s first ‘hovertrain’ could reach speeds of 270 mph in the 1960s

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy. You may unsubscribe at any time. Around the mid-20th century, trains were in trouble. After the first rail lines were laid in 1804 England, the locomotive’s steamy forward chug seemed unstoppable. For over a century, trains were the unmatched champion for anyone looking to get somewhere further than a short horse ride away. But by the late 1950s, that all started to change. The automobile’s rapid technological ascent meant more commuters were opting to get behind the wheel than on commuter trains. Air travel, propped up by significant government backing in the U.S. and Europe, shed rail’s ridership further by making long-distance travel faster. On top of all that, vast stretches of rail infrastructure across France, Belgium, and the Netherlands lay in rubble, casualties of World War II German …

The World’s Most Luxurious Foldable Phone Is Here for the 1%

The World’s Most Luxurious Foldable Phone Is Here for the 1%

Published by skeptic

If you thought Samsung’s $2,000 Galaxy Z Fold 7 is cheap, ugly and only fit for use by peasants with only four or five bedrooms in their house, then luxury-phone maker Vertu has the foldable phone for you. The Alphafold, as the company’s newest device is called, uses materials like calf skin, alligator skin, 24 karat gold and, sure, actual diamonds in its construction — and it starts at a mere $6,880.  Still too cheap and nasty for you? That’s fine, Vertu offers a complete customization service with pricing being “effectively uncapped.” Some of the company’s bespoke projects for the ultrarich have had six figure price tags attached. It sure puts the $800 Motorola Razr to shame.  Alligator skin and real gold? No problem here! Vertu So what do you get for all that money? Well, much of it goes on whatever wild materials you want Vertu to use on your phone. Each unit is made mostly to order and built by hand according to the specifications you’ve requested.  The Alphafold is a book-style foldable, …