Even Supreme Court’s Right Wing Expresses Skepticism Towards Proposed Ghost Gun Free-For-All
While the conservative supermajority of the Supreme Court plainly wields an expansive view of gun rights (and a shrinkingly narrow…
Ethel Kennedy, human rights advocate, recovering from stroke
The widow of US senator Robert F Kennedy is ‘getting best care possible’, her family said in a statement on XEthel Kennedy, a human rights advocate and widow of US Senator Robert F Kennedy, is recovering from a stroke she suffered last week, according to a statement her grandson…
HRCP demands ‘freedom of movement’ after Mahrang Baloch allegedly stopped from flying to US
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Tuesday demanded “freedom of movement” for rights activist Dr Mahrang Baloch after she was allegedly prevented from boarding a flight to the United States to attend an event. Last week, the Baloch Yakjehti Committee leader was featured in Time magazine’s ‘2024 Time100 Next’ list for “advocating peacefully…Pioneers in artificial intelligence win the Nobel Prize in physics
Two pioneers of artificial intelligence have won the Nobel Prize in physics. John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton were awarded the prize Tuesday for discoveries and inventions that formed the building blocks of machine learning. Hinton said he was flabbergasted at being honored. He said AI is revolutionizing the way we work and live but also…
Marquis Who’s Who Honors Jamie A. Griffith for Expertise in Human Resources and Recruitment
Jamie A. Griffith is the founder and CEO of Echelon Search Partners, an executive search and HR consulting firm for health systems, health plans and digital health organizations…
Researchers Decode Structure of Vertebrate-Specific Toxin in Black Widow Spider Venom
The venom of black widow spiders contains a cocktail of seven specific latrotoxins, but only one — α-latrotoxin — targets vertebrates, including humans. The post Researchers Decode Structure of Vertebrate-Specific Toxin in Black Widow Spider Venom appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News…
NASA, Collaborators Announce a New Student Lunar Autonomy Challenge!
Space is hard, but it’s not all hardware. The new Lunar Autonomy Challenge invites teams of students from U.S. colleges and universities to test their software development skills. Working entirely in virtual simulations of the Moon’s surface, teams will develop an autonomous agent using software that can accomplish pre-defined tasks without help from humans…
Tissue Chips Accurately Model Organs in Space
The International Space Station offers a unique microgravity environment where cells outside the human body behave similarly to how they do inside the human body. Tissue chips are small devices containing living cells that mimic complex functions of specific human tissues and organs. Researchers can run experiments using tissue chips aboard space station to understand…
GI Docs Will Need to Forge a ‘Human-Computer Cooperative’
Several artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are emerging that will change the management of gastrointestinal (GI) diseases sooner rather than later. One of the leading researchers working toward that AI-driven future is Ryan W. Stidham, MD, MS, associate professor of gastroenterology and computational medicine and bioinformatics at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor…