
Sara Talpos
Reporter and editor @undarkmag / Occasional freelance writing / Former lecturer @UM_English / Signal: saratalpos.64
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4 days ago |
portside.org | Sara Talpos
Seeking New Foods, Scientists Look to Bacteria, Algae, and More Published June 2, 2025 AS A TEENAGER growing up in Nigeria, Helen Onyeaka was obsessed with microorganisms. The tiny lifeforms, which include bacteria and yeast, can be grown quickly and in huge quantities. Onyeaka wondered if that abundance could be harnessed to feed people in conflict zones where children were suffering from malnutrition, their distended stomachs a clear sign of protein deficiency.
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1 week ago |
undark.org | Sara Talpos
Five years after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, and 82 days after the inauguration of President Donald Trump, dozens of people gathered in a Washington D.C. townhouse to celebrate Jay Bhattacharya, who had recently been confirmed as director of the National Institutes of Health, the world’s top agency for biomedical research.
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1 month ago |
popsci.com | Sara Talpos
Image: Getty Images This article was originally featured on Undark.
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1 month ago |
autism.einnews.com | Sara Talpos
It’s been more than 30 years since the award-winning film “Rain Man,” starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise, put a spotlight on autism — or, more specifically, on a specific type of autism characterized by social awkwardness and isolation and typically affecting males. Yet as far back as the 1980s, at least one prominent autism researcher wondered whether autism’s male skew might simply reflect the fact that autistic females were, for some reason, going undiagnosed.
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1 month ago |
undark.org | Sara Talpos
It’s been more than 30 years since the award-winning film “Rain Man,” starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise, put a spotlight on autism — or, more specifically, on a specific type of autism characterized by social awkwardness and isolation and typically affecting males. Yet as far back as the 1980s, at least one prominent autism researcher wondered whether autism’s male skew might simply reflect the fact that autistic females were, for some reason, going undiagnosed.
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