Judge temporarily blocks agencies from removing health data
A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily paused three agencies from modifying or removing data from their websites and ordered them to restore deleted pages related to public health. The temporary restraining order requires the Department of Health and Human Services as well as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug…
How Ime Udoka resurrected the Houston Rockets from NBA poverty to contender
After a headline-making fall in Boston, Ime Udoka has staged a comeback with the Houston Rockets that has him leading the pack for the NBA’s coach of the yearFrom the myth of Icarus to countless modern narratives, we see a recurring pattern: how humanity is brought back down to earth…UN Rights Chief: Bangladeshi Gov’t Suspected of Rights Violations in Protest Response
GENEVA (Reuters) – The UN’s human rights chief said on Wednesday there are reasonable grounds to believe officials of the former government of…
Antarctic midge survives extreme cold with unique dormancy strategies
Picture an Antarctic animal and most people think of penguins, but there is a flightless midge, the only known insect native to Antarctica, that somehow survives the extreme climate. How the Antarctic midge (Belgica antarctica) copes with freezing temperatures could hold clues for humans about subjects like cryopreservation…Suppressing APOE4-induced neural pathologies by targeting the VHL–HIF axis
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 5, February 2025. SignificanceAPOE4encodes a human lipoprotein variant implicated in cholesterol trafficking and metabolism. APOE4 is a major genetic risk factor for age-related Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and all-cause mortality in humans, highlighting the importance of …
Bangladesh rights group exposes 12 deaths in detention since protests ousted PM Sheikh Hasina
A leading rights organisation reported 12 deaths of people in detention since last year’s student-led protests, alleging torture and extrajudicial killings by security forces…
LangChain shows AI agents aren’t human-level yet because they’re overwhelmed by tools
LangChain evaluated a single AI agent to see if its performance degrades when given more context and tools, essentially overwhelming it…OpenAI’s DeepResearch can complete 26% of ‘Humanity’s Last Exam’ — a benchmark for the frontier of human knowledge
OpenAI’s o1 and DeepSeek’s R1 models, which previously sat atop the leaderboard, could only get through roughly 9% of the exam…