The final meeting of the 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee is next week
The 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, which was appointed by the Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Agriculture (USDA) two years ago, will meet for the final time next week. The final sessions are set for Monday, Oct. 21, and Tuesday, Oct. 22, from 11 a.m…Eric Schmidt’s SandboxAQ aims for $5B valuation for its AI/quantum Google moonshot
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Loss of ‘nitrogen fixers’ threatens biodiversity, ecosystems
New research shows how human activities, like fertilizer use and polluting, are impacting nitrogen-fixing plants which are crucial for maintaining healthy ecosystems by adding nitrogen to the soil…
Democrats eye voting rights bill as first priority in House majority
FREEPORT, N.Y. — A top House Democrat said this week that if the party wins the majority, its first priority in the next Congress will be election integrity — an issue that’s been front-and-center throughout a campaign in which former President Trump has floated baseless claims of voter fraud and laid the groundwork to challenge…
Dolphins Are Exhaling Microplastics
New research highlights how extensive plastic pollution is—and how nonhuman species, including dolphins, are exposed…
Marvel Fusion breaks ground on $150M laser facility in Colorado
German startup Marvel Fusion and Colorado State University have broken ground on a $150M laser facility in a bid to commercialise fusion energy. Dubbed ATLAS, the facility will use three ultra-high intensity lasers to fire 7 petawatts of power — over 5,000 times the electrical generation capacity of the US — at a target roughly…
Primeboy Files Lawsuit Against Police Over Controversial ‘Wanted’ Declaration
Ibrahim ‘Primeboy’ Owodunni, a close friend of the late singer Mohbad, has filed a lawsuit against the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), claiming a violation of his fundamental human rights. The……
Egypt and Sudan Defend Water Rights Against Upstream Countries
More than two decades after the launch of the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI), in 1999, aimed at attaining sustainable socioeconomic development by ensuring fair use and shared benefits from the common water resources of the Nile Basin, tensions remain high as upstream and downstream countries grapple over rights to the Nile river’s life-sustaining flow. …
False claims: DSS slams N5.5bn suit on SERAP
The Department of State Services (DSS) has instituted a N5.5billion defamation suit against the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) for allegedly making false claim that officials of the agency ……