Changes in eyesight are one of the most familiar effects of getting older. Sit in a dim restaurant with someone over 60, and you might hear, “Hold on — let me pull out my cell phone. I need more light to read the menu!” But what if declining vision with age could actually be reversed? Researchers at UC Irvine have …
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In a Truth Social post made yesterday, President Donald Trump pressed Google-owned YouTube TV to restore access to Univision, citing the Spanish-language broadcast network’s favorable coverage of him and Republicans as reason for doing so. “I hope Univision, a great and very popular Hispanic Network, can get BACK onto the very amazing Google/YouTube,” the GOP leader wrote. “It has been …
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An Arkansas man who was detained for a month by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) after authorities mistook his bottle of perfume for opium is seeking to have his visa status restored after the charges were dropped. Kapil Raghu, an Indian national married to an American woman and working towards American citizenship, was detained on 3 May after police …
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The MIT team proposed that a BEC of radioactive atoms—say, rubidium-83—could radioactively decay in sync to produce a laser beam. Neutrinos are released naturally during radioactive decay, and in the quantum BEC state, that decay should accelerate, an effect that should produce an amplified beam of neutrinos akin to how stimulated emission amplifies photons to produce a conventional laser beam. …
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The patient: A 34-year-old man named Brent Chapman in British Columbia, Canada The medical history: When Chapman was 13 years old, he had a rare and serious autoimmune reaction after taking a normal dose of ibuprofen. This reaction, known as Stevens-Johnson syndrome, trips the immune system, causing cells to attack the skin and mucus membranes. In this case, the syndrome …
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Carver, Massachusetts — For Jarrod Rhodes, a fourth-generation cranberry farmer in Carver, Massachusetts, a 30-acre state project is taking a portion of his family’s land back in time. “In 10 years, I hope it looks like a natural swamp,” Rhodes told CBS News of the project’s outcome. “And just, kind of, everything that it may have looked like, you know, …
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Students walk past Royce Hall at the UCLA campus in Los Angeles on Aug. 15, 2024. Damian Dovarganes/AP hide caption toggle caption Damian Dovarganes/AP LOS ANGELES — A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore $500 million in federal grant funding that it froze at the University of California, Los Angeles. U.S. District Judge Rita Lin in San …
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A federal judge Monday ordered the Trump administration to restore $500 million in UCLA medical research grants, halting for now a nearly two-month funding crisis that UC leaders said threatened the future of the nation’s premier public university system. The opinion by U.S. District Judge Rita F. Lin of the Northern District of California added hundreds of UCLA’s National Institutes …
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Share on PinterestScientists have developed new eye drops that could help with presbyopia. Ekaterina Vasileva-Bagler/Getty Images Researchers estimate that about 1.8 billion people around the world live with presbyopia, a farsightedness condition that can appear as a person grows older. More recent treatment options for presbyopia are eye drops such as Vuity, which uses pilocarpine hydrochloride. A new study found …
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