For the first time in two years, NASA is opening applications for its next astronaut class. Announcing the call at the Max Power event at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), NASA said this will be one of its most important classes yet, with the new astronauts training for low Earth…
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(MedPage Today) -- DT120, an investigational orally disintegrating tablet (ODT) formulation of the psychedelic lysergide (LSD), met the primary endpoints in a pair of phase III trials for generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and major depressive...
(MedPage Today) -- Lowering lipoprotein(a), or Lp(a), did not translate into better cardiovascular outcomes in a secondary prevention population, at least not with pelacarsen in the Lp(a) HORIZON trial. Among people with elevated lipoprotein(a...
Its key temperature goal has been missed but experts say the agreement is still proving a vital moral compass for progress It was a curious way of conducting negotiations. Ahead of the 2025 climate summit, in the Amazonian port of Belém last year, the Brazilian hosts had taken…
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Systems provide 360-degree view of airport operations, but concerns have been raised about the technology The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has announced that the first digital air traffic control towers in the US are officially operational, bringing new technology first…
(MedPage Today) -- People may have been getting high off cannabis earlier than previously thought -- at least 2,800 years ago, a new study suggests. Archaeologists who led a dig at a monumental tomb in Siberia said they turned up evidence of...
Offering financial incentives to people trying to quit smoking nearly doubled cessation rates among medically underserved adults undergoing lung cancer screening, according to a large national clinical trial involving Henry Ford Health.
(MedPage Today) -- Drugmaker Novartis acknowledged Thursday that there have been nine reports of tumors in children treated with its gene therapy onasemnogene abeparvovec (Zolgensma) for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). Two of the tumor cases were...
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How will the midterm results affect drug pricing policy? What is the fate of the Food and Drug Administration? And why are women traveling to fertility clinics abroad? On this week's episode of “The Readout LOUD,” STAT's biotech podcast, we bring on our Washington correspondent Daniel Payne to chat about the massive midterm victory for Democrats and what it means for health and medicine. We also bring on our colleague Megan Molteni to discuss her investigation into a network of clinics that have advertised fertility success with a questionable and expensive genetic procedure.
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is launching the Quantum Experimentation Group (QEG) in Q1 2027 to assess if quantum machine learning (QML) can improve financial crime detection. This initiative will bring together financial institutions, quantum tech providers, and…
South Korea has launched its sixth national supercomputer, Hangang, with a peak performance of 614 petaflops. It is designed to be the high-performance computing backbone for the country's first hybrid quantum-classical computing platform, integrating with IonQ's Tempo quantum…
IBM, the University of Chicago, and the State of Illinois have deployed an on-premises IBM Quantum System Two in Chicago, powered by the 120-qubit Nighthawk processor. This system, initially at Hyde Park Labs, will anchor the National Quantum Algorithm Center (NQAC) and support…
As Nepal’s mountains warm, mosquitoes are spreading dengue, once strictly a lowland disease, to higher-elevation, densely-populated areas. Story by Avery Schuyler Nunn, photos by Yuri Segalerba The warming of Nepal’s mountains is dramatically transforming some of the grandest…
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Scientists working on new reports for the IPCC, the U.N.’s climate science panel, warn about a funding crunch and report timelines in an open letter. By Bob Berwyn As global climate negotiators and government officials convene for the annual United Nations climate summit, the…
When teenagers can’t stop scrolling on their mobile devices, the easiest explanation is to label them as having weak self-control. A group of public health experts has a different answer. The feed was built to keep that thumb moving, and the responsibility belongs to the…
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Common climate wisdom used to be that buying solar panels was one of the smartest long-term investments an individual could make – pay once up front for decades of carbon-free electricity. But it turns out layers of red tape make that process slower – and much more expensive – than it needs to be. And with federal rollback of longstanding tax credits and stiff competition from China, the U.S. solar industry is facing new headwinds. Still, the future could be bright: More states are looking at allowing plug-in or balcony solar. Energy affordability nonprofits like Permit Power are helping state governments reduce red tape and costs for home solar. And solar developers see new potential in the
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The Maya used so much red paint that they accidentally poisoned their lakes and waterways with mercury, a new study finds. The problem was cinnabar, a vivid-red mercury-sulfide mineral that can be used as the pigment vermilion in red paint. The run-off from the paint can enter…
If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: Computing journal retracts 13 papers, including four from past EIC Bioengineered retracts 119 more papers as investigation continues A year later…
Representative Zoe Lofgren prepares to lead the House science committee that microbiologist Jasmine Clark hopes to serve on
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A new analysis of more than 25,000 calls and text messages to a national psychedelic helpline offers what the authors describe as the largest real-world portrait to date of who reaches out for support during or after a psychoactive drug experience. The research, published in…
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In older adults without memory problems, the buildup of Alzheimer’s-related tau protein in the brain tends to precede and predict a rise in mild depressive symptoms, with little evidence that mood changes drive protein accumulation. The findings, published in the Journal of…
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Researchers have identified a specific pattern of brain activity that can distinguish people with cocaine use disorder from those without the condition. This brain activity pattern can also predict whether a person will respond well to a magnetic brain stimulation therapy…
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It's one of the most powerful ideas in the history of science. That a brain is, in essence, a computer. That we can look past its gelatinous flesh and see through to its underlying workings. That these workings are best described in the language of programs and computations, algorithms and representations. There's no question that this "brain as computer" analogy, has been—in many ways—enormously generative. But in other ways could it be leading us astray? My guest today is Dr. Mazviita Chirimuuta . Mazviita is a Philosopher of Mind and Neuroscience at the University of Edinburgh, in Scotland. She's the author of the widely acclaimed and widely discussed 2024 book, The Brain Abstracted: Simp
For over a decade, every anomaly in particle physics has disappeared. Not this one. A long-standing anomaly in particles containing bottom quarks has now grown to 4.8 sigma, just short of a discovery. Let’s take a look.
In a new Nature Physics study, researchers demonstrated the Aharonov-Bohm effect in a quantum simulation of a lattice gauge theory using a hybrid trapped-ion quantum computer.
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Flash Joule heating converts used blades into a valuable resin additive
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A Pakistani astronaut will join the crew of China's Shenzhou 24 spacecraft on a mission that would make him the first foreign national to board Beijing's space station, state media reported Saturday.
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Sun news for November 7, 2026. A large coronal hole now faces Earth, and its fast solar wind is starting to reach us. Forecasters expect it to stir up G1 (minor) geomagnetic storms, with G2 (moderate) levels possible. That means auroras for those at high latitudes, possibly…
An alternative model in which the universe is 26.7 billion years old and needs neither dark matter nor dark energy has held up against several major cosmology tests, according to a new University of Ottawa study. The research, titled "A Big Bang Nucleosynthesis Consistency Test…
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Historian Peter Westwick joins Casey Dreier to explore JPL’s 90-year history, from Army rockets to planetary exploration, as NASA opens the lab’s management contract to competition for the first time.