CAS dismissed Vinesh Phogat’s appeal against her disqualification from the Paris Olympics 2024, emphasizing strict adherence to weight rules. The Indian Olympic Association expressed disappointment, calling the regulations ‘inhumane…
There are more than 100,000 children who are eligible for adoption in the US foster care system on any given day, according to the US Department of Health and Human Services. Add those numbers to the thousands more born into families where parents not equipped to care for a child…
Research has shown that in many animals, the winners of a fight are more likely to win subsequent contests, while the losers tend to lose their following fights. In experiments where male stickleback fish were randomly introduced to another fish, 65% of the winning fish won the second match…
Nature Biotechnology, Published online: 19 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41587-024-02358-1Each year, Nature Biotechnology highlights companies that have received sizeable early-stage funding in the previous year. A rescued chimeric antigen receptor from Cargo Therapeutics for hard-to-treat lymphomas shows promise in patients while a trispecific advances toward human testing…
NASA has awarded a total of $1.25 million to three U.S. teams in the third and final round of the agency’s Deep Space Food Challenge. The teams delivered novel food production technologies that could provide long-duration human space exploration missions with safe, nutritious, and tasty food…
America’s public schools may be teaching naturalistic evolution, but the public still isn’t buying it. According to a new Gallup survey, more than 70 percent of Americans believe God had a hand in creating humanity. …
Unitree’s G1 humanoid robot can fold down for storage and transport but weighs as much as a small child. | Image: Unitree Robotics Robots capable of performing human-like tasks have so far been relegated to laboratories, factories, and captivating YouTube demos. But Unitree is readying its G1 humanoid robot for mass production with a $16,000…