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Chimp societies drum to a distinct beat
Elon Musk-led DOGE Task Force has shut down the main science division of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Reuters reported. According to the report, the situation at EPA is among the most pronounced examples of an approach, spearheaded by Musk’s DOGE task force, that is hobbling activities across several US federal agencies including the…
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There is a push by Ukraine’s allies to have a 30-day ceasefire
French President Emmanuel Macron, along with leaders of Germany, France and Poland, travelled to Ukraine’s capital Kyiv on Sunday to attend a virtual meeting of ‘coalition of the willing’. Macron, who called Ukraine “the beating heart of Europe”, posted a video on social media showing the group visiting a memorial to World War II dead…
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David H. Souter was a Republican Justice who allied with the liberals
US Supreme Court Justice David Souter, who served on the court for nearly twenty years, gave his papers to the New Hampshire Historical Society, with the stipulation that they remain closed for fifty years after his death. Justice Souter, who retired from the Supreme Court in 2003, had served as a judge of the First…
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Climate risk is going to rise among younger generations
A study has estimated population totals, cohort sizes and life expectancy for countries at the ISIMip grid scale. The study says these datasets at present do not account for the impact of climate on population dynamics, for example through changes in migration, fertility and mortality. The data comes from a database. GDP per capita is…
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Adults have to act like adults on climate change
An analysis of global life expectancy by cross-pollinating life expectancy data with grid-scale exposure projections has been carried out. For each GMT trajectory (1.5-3.5 C, 0.1-0.1 C intervals), birth year (1960–2020) and country (177), exposures are summed across lifetimes at the grid scale. Life expectancy for each country is first assumed to be based on…
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A spy memo implicates Trump on the relationship with Venezuela
The FBI, The Times and American Civil Liberties Union ( ACLU) have criticised the US for deporting 137 Venezuela citizens without giving them a proper due process. The Trump administration invoked the Alien Enemies Act to deport the citizens without giving them a proper due process. “Some in the media remain Intent on twisting and…
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In Texas borderland, Trump has had his immigration push suffer its worst legal defeat yet
A US judge said that President Donald Trump cannot unilaterally declare an ‘invasion’ of the country and invoke wartime authority during peacetime. Judge Sergio Rodriguez’s comments came after the Supreme Court blocked the deportation of Venezuelans held at a detention facility in Texas. Rodriguez said there was no reference to a threat of an armed…
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Trump is thanked by GM for the $5 billion hit it expects to take
Automakers in the US, including General Motors, Tesla and Fiat Chrysler, have been affected by President Donald Trump’s constant tariffs on car parts. Stellantis, the parent company of Jeep, Dodge and Ram, also recently cancelled its outlook for the year, with Chief Financial Officer Doug Ostermann saying, “Most of us are in a period of…
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Trump does not want to stand in the way of ICE
A US District Judge in San Francisco, William Orrick, ruled that the Trump administration’s actions were likely “unconstitutional” and granted a preliminary injunction to stop the administration from interfering with local authorities’ enforcement of immigration laws. The judge also said that the administration’s actions were likely to lead to “chaos and lawlessness.” President Donald Trump…
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A new lawsuit claims that Trump and DOGE’s government reorganization is unconstitutional
A small number of Trump administration staffers have been working at multiple federal agencies at the same time, according to an NPR report. ” HQ/DOGE has approved our expenses to pump vault toilet at one of our field offices,” an employee at the Bureau of Land Management said. The Trump administration is looking to shrink…
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Perfect Pour-Over Coffee has a science to it
University of California, Irvine scientists have used silica gel beads and liquid Beams to imitate the act of water being poured on coffee grounds. The experiment was inspired by notes that were kept by a scientist in his group about pour-over brews made in the lab each day. Scientists filmed the act of water being…
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The agency plans to shift its focus as it begins to lay off staff
The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has started issuing layoff notices to some employees, according to a report by NPR. Last week, a judge had issued a partial stay on the Bureau’s decision to fire any employee until it decides whether to issue a reduction in force (RIF). The agency was founded in the…
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There are two dead and six injured in a shooting in Florida
Joshua Gallagher, a law student at Florida State University who went to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, wrote on social media that he never thought that gun violence would hit close to home again. “Then I’m in the FSU Law Library,” he added. “Then I heard an alarm: ‘active shooter on campus’,” he…
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The judge said it was a “probable cause” to hold the US in contempt
A US judge has found the Trump administration in “criminal contempt” of court for violating his order to stop any deportations under the Alien Enemies Act (EEA). Boasberg gave the federal government till April 23 to try to “purge their contempt” and prove they did not violate his temporary restraining order. The administration had deported…
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When Meloni meets with Trump she will test her skills as a bridge
The European Union (EU) and the US have reached “an agreement on several aspects” of transatlantic trade, EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrm said. The two sides have agreed to improve predictability in the tariff-free trade regime between the two nations, she added. Malmstrm made the statement following a meeting with US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer.
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The top House Democrat said there might be “technological malfeasance” at the NLRB
A whistleblower at US’ National Labor Law Review (NLRB) has said the agency may have taken sensitive labour data from its systems and distributed it across agencies for unknown purposes. The whistleblower claimed the agency may also have removed Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) from its systems. However, the agency has denied the allegations and said…
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The pan-genome of a European potato
We implemented both read-mapping-based and assembly-based approaches to identified SNPs using Nipponbare as the reference genome. The pan-genome was transformed into a haplotype graph with the alignments of 40 haplotype genomes to the DM reference using minimap2. The phased SNP sites with uniquely mapped reads and mean Coverage depths greater than threefold were acquired using…
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Rethinking views on Alzheimer’s disease
Scientists have developed a drug that could stop the progression of Alzheimer’s in a patient with a mutated copy of the APOE3 gene. Piedrahita Piedrahita had two copies of the most common version, APOE3. Her variant was called APOE3 Christchurch, or APOE3Ch. This mutation affects how the protein binds to a sugar-protein compound called HSPG,…
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The Trump administration has frozen more than $2.2 billion after Harvard rejected its demands
Harvard University has rejected a request from US President Donald Trump’s administration to make changes in its policies and eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion programs. In a letter, Harvard’s lawyers said that the requests were in violation of the university’s First Amendment rights and exceeded legal limits of the government’s authority to enforce civil rights…
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The students at Georgetown are angry about the professor’s arrest
US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released its evidence against a student from Columbia University after an immigration judge in Louisiana ordered them to do so. Lawyers for the Department of Homeland Security released their evidence against a student from Columbia University after the judge ordered them to do so. Mahmoud Khalil’s lawyers are challenging…
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Europe wants to attract US scientists and protect academic freedom
European Commission’s new research commissioner, Ekaterina Zaharieva, said that the EU’s research programme should be subsumed into a wider EU competitiveness fund, targeted at reviving the economy. Zaharieva is the European Union’s new commissioner for start-ups, research and innovation. She said the successor to the EU’s 93.5 billion research programme will begin in 2028 and…
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A coronavirus assembly is able to target the viral virulence factor
The cultures were pretreated with basal medium containing compounds at different concentrations for one h before infection with 100 l SARS-CoV-2 inoculum (1,000 TCID50 per insert). On the day of the experiment, the cultures were pretreated with a basal medium containing compounds for 1 h before infection with 100 l SARS-CoV-2 inoculum. The viral inoculum…
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The map of human brain mitochondria is a groundbreaking achievement
Researchers have shared a cube-sized map of cognitive deficits in adults with mitochondrial disease (MD). A slice of frozen human brains was divided from a 54-year-old donor, who died of a heart attack, into 703 cube-sized cubes. The CubeMap is equivalent to the size of units that make up standard 3D images of the brain.
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The sea level was twice as high at the end of the last ice age
The impact of the British-Irish Ice Sheets on the Generalized Sloan Digital Skyline (GMSL) rise has been studied. EuIS contributed 2.2 m (2 range, 1.5–2.9 m between 11 ka and 10 ka and 3.0 m (2 range, 2.1–4.3 m) between 11.7 ka and 10 ka. GMSL rise from 11 ka to 3 ka was 37.7…