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Five Years Ago, Fentanyl Was An Obscure Hospital Drug. Here’s How It Completely Took Over The US Illicit Drug Market.
Fentanyl now kills more people in the US than any other drug. It seems to have started with 14 overdoses in Rhode Island in 2013.
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Experts Are Fighting Over Whether A Popular Drug For Reversing Overdoses Is Actually Causing More Deaths And Crime
A controversial, unpublished study is suggesting that naloxone, a drug that reverses opioid overdoses, doesn’t save more lives and drives people to seek more dangerous highs. But some experts criticized the study’s approach and assumptions.
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Hundreds Of Cold War Nuclear Weapons Test Videos Were Just Released
While weapons tests are now done via computer simulations, the US performed 210 of these open air nuclear explosions from 1945 to 1962.
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The Trump Administration Can't Get Out Of The Kids’ Climate Lawsuit, Court Rules
It's Kids 2, Feds 0. This is now the second court to reject the government's efforts to get the case dismissed.
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Government Scientists Have A Plan For Blowing Up Asteroids With A Nuke
There's a teeny chance that a giant asteroid might blast Earth in 2135, so scientists are working on a solution.
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Here Is Everything You Need To Know About The Big Snowstorm Slamming The East Coast
Parts of the Northeast have already received more than two feet of snow.
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University Puts Physicist Lawrence Krauss On Paid Leave While It Investigates Sexual Harassment Allegations
On Tuesday, Arizona State University said that professor Lawrence Krauss is banned from campus while the school investigates allegations revealed in a BuzzFeed News article. The announcement followed Krauss’s resignation from the elite “Doomsday Clock” group.
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Mountain Snow In The Western US Is Declining Because Of Climate Change, A New Study Finds
“It’s pretty robustly caused by rising temperatures,” one scientist said.
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Hundreds Of Thousands Of Dead Sea Creatures Washed Ashore On Beaches In The UK
“There are places where you are ankle-deep, or calf-deep, in animals. It’s really hard to quantify the numbers, to be honest,” said one conservationist.
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Leading Skeptic Group Suspends Ties To Physicist Lawrence Krauss After Sexual Harassment Scandal
The Center for Inquiry has distanced itself from star speaker Lawrence Krauss “pending further information,” 11 days after BuzzFeed News revealed a long history of accusations against him.
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This Town Is At The Center Of The US Opioid Crisis. Here’s The Story Of An Average Day In Its “Drug Court.”
The drug crisis in Huntington, West Virginia, is at the center of the Oscar-nominated documentary, Heroin(e). Here's the story of the daily drama and mundane reality of the drug court at the center of the film.
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After A Legal Challenge, EPA Decided Not To Cancel Funding To A Pennsylvania Newspaper
After a political appointee took charge of EPA grants last summer, the agency cut short a six-year, $1.95 million grant to the Bay Journal. Now the agency has reversed course.
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Scientists Just Discovered 1.5 Million Penguins They Didn’t Know Existed In Antarctica
The scientists were tipped off by large clusters of penguin poop seen on satellite images.
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Thousands Of People Are Without Gas After A Deadly Explosion Rocked This Texas Neighborhood
Residents of Dallas tell BuzzFeed News they are frustrated by the lack of information shared by Atmos Energy — and scared of another deadly accident.
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The Flu Is Finally, Finally Going Away
The spread of the flu virus is finally slowing. But it's still worth getting the vaccine.
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A Scientist Who Worked Closely With Brian Wansink Is No Longer At His Job
Collin Payne has come under fire for his studies with Brian Wansink, a renowned food marketing scientist at Cornell University. As of January, Payne is no longer a professor at New Mexico State University.
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An Ivy League Food Scientist Has Retracted Yet Another Study — His Sixth
The withdrawn paper, about getting kids to eat more vegetables, is Cornell professor Brian Wansink’s sixth retraction.
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10 Facts About Graves' Disease, The Thyroid Condition Affecting Wendy Williams
Graves' disease causes symptoms like irritability, period abnormalities, fatigue, and a racing heartbeat.
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Here’s How Cornell Scientist Brian Wansink Turned Shoddy Data Into Viral Studies About How We Eat
Brian Wansink won fame, funding, and influence for his science-backed advice on healthy eating. Now, emails show how the Cornell professor and his colleagues have hacked and massaged low-quality data into headline-friendly studies to “go virally big time.”
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Facing Sexual Harassment Allegations, Physicist Lawrence Krauss Will Not Appear At Several Events
At least three of Lawrence Krauss’s speaking engagements have been canceled after BuzzFeed News revealed a string of sexual harassment allegations against him.
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This Controversial Ivy League Scientist Left His Kickstarter Donors High And Dry
Cornell University food scientist Brian Wansink, who’s embroiled in research misconduct allegations, now has another problem: Kickstarter donors who say they never got what they were promised. Wansink apologized to them after an inquiry from BuzzFeed News.
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The US Flu Season Has Now Peaked, But Children Are Still Dying From The Virus
Federal health officials reported another 13 young children died of flu in February.
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The Energy Department Took Down Anti-Leaking Posters After An Investigation
"The poster raised concerns that, among others, lawful whistleblowing was being chilled,” a spokesperson for the Office of Special Counsel, an independent federal agency protecting government workers, told BuzzFeed News.
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Scientists Have Discovered Cave Paintings With Sophisticated Symbolism Made By Neanderthals
“The wider significance of our research is to finally put to bed the sense that Neanderthals were very different from us,” one of the researchers said.
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He Became A Celebrity For Putting Science Before God. Now Lawrence Krauss Faces Allegations Of Sexual Misconduct.
Lawrence Krauss is a famous atheist and liberal crusader — and, in certain whisper networks, a well-known problem. With women coming forward alleging sexual harassment, will his “skeptic” fanbase believe the evidence?
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Mental Health Fixes Won’t Stop Mass Shootings, Experts Warn
But sensible policies to keep guns temporarily out of the hands of people going through psychiatric crises could reduce the annual toll from suicide.
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A Less Effective Vaccine Worsened The Flu Season This Year
Nearly 48,000 people — including 84 kids under the age of 5 — have so far died from the flu and related illnesses this season. “There is still clearly significant room for improvement,” the FDA commissioner said about the flu vaccine.
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Here’s How Trump Unlawfully Delayed New Energy Rules For Air Conditioners, Boilers, And More
The ruling is the latest court victory for environmentalists, state attorneys general, and others challenging the Trump administration’s rollback and delay of environmental rules.
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No, “Sonic Weapons” Did Not Give US Diplomats In Cuba Concussions
A long-awaited medical report finds a cluster of concussion symptoms among 21 US diplomats serving in Cuba in 2016. But it offers no answers on what happened to them.