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This is a follow-up to 1ban.news’s coverage of Super Typhoon Bavi’s landfall on Guam on July 6, 2026. Four days after slamming Guam as a Category 5-equivalent super typhoon, Bavi has transformed into a different kind of threat. The storm has weakened substantially, sustained winds have dropped from 285 km/h to approximately 140 km/h, and […]
A single Dutch sperm donor is estimated to have fathered between 550 and 600 children. A Danish sperm bank unknowingly used a donor carrying a cancer-risk mutation in at least 197 children, some of whom developed cancer, some of whom died. In the United Kingdom, more than half of all sperm used in fertility treatments […]
The editorial does not offer a radically new prescription. It calls for the fundamentals: renewed political commitment, restored and increased funding, removal of legal and social barriers to care for key populations, and a focus on the regions and communities where the epidemic continues to accelerate. What is new is the urgency, a recognition that […]
In 218 BCE, Hannibal Barca led an estimated 46,000 soldiers, 37 war elephants, and thousands of horses across the Alps in 15 days. By the time they reached the Italian plain, roughly half the men were dead. What remained of the army went on to defeat Rome at the Battle of the Trebia, but the […]
Source: Wasserman, H.I., Chi, B., Bohm, K.A. et al. “High-throughput characterization of transcription factors that modulate UV damage formation and repair at single-nucleotide resolution.” Nature Communications (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-75115-4
For patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the presence of microvascular invasion (MVI) is one of the most important prognostic factors. Tumor cells that have infiltrated nearby blood vessels dramatically increase the risk of recurrence after surgical resection or ablation. But MVI can currently only be confirmed after surgery, by examining the resected tissue under a […]
Alzheimer’s disease research has undergone a profound transformation in the last five years. For the first time in history, there are treatments that alter the biological course of the disease rather than just managing symptoms. There are blood tests that can detect pathology years before cognitive decline. And the understanding of what drives the disease, […]
Fermi’s golden rule is one of the most widely applied formulas in quantum physics. It gives the rate at which a quantum system transitions between states under a weak perturbation, and it is taught to every physics undergraduate. But the rule, proposed by Enrico Fermi in the 1940s, is an approximation rooted in perturbation theory. […]
Opinion dynamics, disease spreading, and statistical physics may seem like disparate fields. One studies how beliefs evolve through social influence. Another tracks how infections propagate through populations. The third describes how systems of many interacting particles behave collectively. But beneath the surface, they share a common mathematical skeleton: agents or particles with binary states, choosing […]
