1. Medicine Doctors in Madrid hailed a new pill for patients with high blood pressure resistant to existing medication as a “gamechanger” and a “triumph of science”. Globally, 1.3 billion people have hypertension and in half of cases, their high blood pressure is uncontrolled or resistant to existing treatments. They face a much higher risk of heart attack, stroke, kidney …
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Read More »Trump floats “regular military” tackling crime with crackdowns in Chicago, NY Axios Trump says Chicago next up for federal crime crackdown CNN ‘I think Chicago will be next’: President Trump signals plans to extend federal crackdown on crime to Chicago WGN-TV Live updates: Chicago could be Trump’s next target after DC AP News Trump hints at federal crackdown in Chicago amid anti-crime push in …
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Brain cells (artificially coloured) can be infected by a virus carrying the apperatus to correct disease-causing mutations. Credit: Nancy Kedersha/UCLA/Science Photo Library Scientists are closing in on the ability to apply genome editing to a formidable new target: the human brain. In the past two years, a spate of technological advances and promising results in mice have been laying the …
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Tempers flared and at least one punch was thrown during the second joint practice between the Jets and Giants on Wednesday. Will McDonald tackled Tyrone Tracy Jr. to the ground, which did not sit well with the Giants offensive line. Greg Van Roten and McDonald got tangled up and went to the ground with Van Roten, a former Jet, on …
Read More »HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Amid rising electric bills, states are under pressure to insulate regular household and business ratepayers from the costs of feeding Big Tech’s energy-hungry data centers. It’s not clear that any state has a solution and the actual effect of data centers on electricity bills is difficult to pin down. Some critics question whether states have the …
Read More »E.P.A. Plans to Revoke the Legal Basis for Tackling Climate Change The New York Times Trump administration claims greenhouse gases don’t harm public health The Guardian EPA chief Zeldin delivers dagger to the heart of Obama’s climate change agenda on ‘Ruthless’ podcast Fox News Trump’s EPA to repeal finding that climate pollution endangers human health USA Today Live updates: Trump’s EPA moves to repeal …
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A startup called Pig.dev that participated in Y Combinator’s Winter 2025 batch was working on a potentially revolutionary idea: AI agentic tech to control a Microsoft Windows desktop. But in May, the founder announced he was abandoning the tech and pivoting his company to something entirely different: Muscle Mem, a cache system for AI agents that allows them to offload …
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