LIBBY EMMONS: Trump boldly restores the rights of women and girls
Efforts to eradicate the biological reality of sex fundamentally attack women by depriving them of their dignity, safety, and well-being…
‘Free trip’ to Vietnam exposed as trafficking scheme — Immigration
Three Filipinos were intercepted at Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3 on January 20, narrowly escaping a suspected human trafficking scheme. …
Musk’s straight-arm gesture embraced by right-wing extremists regardless of what he meant
NEW YORK (AP) — The Anti-Defamation League, an antisemitism and human rights watchdog, called it an “awkward gesture” and urged caution in jumping to conclusions. The post Musk’s straight-arm gesture embraced by right-wing extremists regardless of what he meant appeared first on RNS…Individualized temporal patterns drive human sleep spindle timing
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 2, January 2025. SignificanceSleep spindles are cortical electrical waveforms observed during sleep, considered critical for memory consolidation and sleep stability. Abnormalities in sleep spindles have been found in neuropsychiatric disorders and aging and are believed …APOBEC3A deaminates CTG hairpin loops to promote fragility and instability of expanded CAG/CTG repeats
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 2, January 2025. SignificanceCAG/CTG repeat expansions cause 16 different human diseases. DNA damage can initiate CAG/CTG expansions, but which sources are relevant in brain cells is not known. We reveal that the human cytidine deaminase APOBEC3A can deaminate hairpin …Elephants can’t pursue their release from a Colorado zoo because they’re not human, court says
Five elephants at a Colorado zoo may be “majestic” but do not have the legal right to pursue their release since they aren’t human. That was the ruling Tuesday from Colorado’s highest court. It follows a similar court defeat in New York in 2022 for an elephant named Happy at the Bronx Zoo in a…
China’s ‘artificial sun’ shatters nuclear fusion record by generating steady loop of plasma for 1,000 seconds
A nuclear fusion reactor in China, dubbed the “artificial sun,” has broken its own record to bring humanity one step closer to near-limitless clean energy…
Call: Climate & Human Rights 4 Kids
Share your input on an exciting new UN TikTok channel for children The Special Rapporteur on Climate Change & Human Rights is thrilled to announce a new initiative aimed at engaging our community and amplifying the voices of children and young people on critical issues. This project is designed to inspire dialogue and awareness about…Havok shares first physics engine tech demo in 10 years
The scene opens in an underground cave where debris starts raining down around a humanoid figure as a siren blares in the background. Tunnels with spikes and skull traps populate the middle of the demo, while explosions at the end provide an escape route for our hero…