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Ben Sullivan
2d ago

The rate is falling. The death toll is climbing. Both things are true at once, and that contradiction sits at the heart of a new national reckoning with mesothelioma, the rare and brutal cancer that asbestos leaves behind. Pull up the numbers from 1990 and lay them beside 2023 and you would be forgiven for thinking the story was one of slow victory. Age-standardised incidence down by a third. Mor…

medicineoncologypublic-health
Ben Sullivan
2d ago

Inside the egg, the chick can see nothing. It is folded tight against the shell, blind and deaf for most of its development, sealed off from the desert glare and the colony’s racket. And yet, somehow, in the final days before it breaks out, it is listening. A fast, high, stuttering song presses through the shell, repeated over and over by the parent crouched on top of New! Sign up for our email n…

biologydevelopmental-biologyneurobiology
Ben Sullivan
2d ago

Somewhere in a methylation dataset sits a child of ten whose body is already running fast. Not sick, not visibly different from the kid at the next desk, but ticking along at a pace that a particular kind of molecular clock can read off the chemistry of their DNA. The child grew up with less: less money, fewer resources, more of the low-grade stress that comes with scarcity. And that, it turns ou…

agingmedicinepublic-health
Ben Sullivan
2d ago

For a few uneasy months, the universe seemed to be slowing down. Late in 2025, a team of astronomers announced that the cosmic acceleration discovered nearly three decades earlier, the finding that won a Nobel Prize and rewrote the story of everything, might have been an illusion all along. The culprit, they argued, was hiding in the explodin New! Sign up for our email newsletter on Substack.

astronomycosmology

Two-Week Brain Tumor Test, Done in Twelve Minutes

Ben Sullivan
4d ago

The glass slide is nothing special. A sliver of brain tumor, fixed in paraffin, sliced thinner than a hair and washed in the same two dyes pathologists have leaned on for more than a century: hematoxylin to stain the cell nuclei a bruised purple, eosin to wash the rest a dusty pink. Hospitals everywhere make these. A scanner turns one into a digital image, and that image goes to a piece of softwa…

diagnosticsmedicine

One in Four Young Canadians Now Carries the Mark of Social Anxiety

Ben Sullivan
4d ago

Line up a hundred Canadians who are 20 to 24 years old and ask the right questions, and roughly twenty-four of them will describe a life shaped by the fear of being watched, judged, found wanting. Do the same with a hundred people over 65, and the number drops to six. That is not a small wobble between generations. It is a fourfold gap, and it sits at the center of a new national portra New! Sign…

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