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Eight Cornell faculty, including Provost Kavita Bala, are featured as “New Heroes” in a portrait series by Christopher Michel, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s inaugural artist-in-residence.
Anduril has 15 business lines creating everything from surveillance and attack drones to autonomous fighter jets and sensors to go into space.
The Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has successfully completed the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) and released its first physics results.
Two UBC Okanagan engineering students are transforming classroom research into a practical tool for communities facing increasing wildfire risk.
Targeting and treating diseases first requires being able to find specific cells--which is challenging because they travel within the body and can "hide."
NASA is providing more images and information about the interstellar object that's passing through our solar system right now, known as 3I/ATLAS.
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The Nexus of Open Science symposium took place on Nov. 14, bringing together leaders in neuroscience, clinical research, biomedical engineering and data science to explore topics ranging from FAIR data and software standards to improving the accessibility of AI tools in biomedical contexts like neuroimaging. Among the talks given, Georg Oeltzschner, Associate Professor of Radiology and Radiological Science at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, discussed a topic that may sound rather familiar to students with Organic Chemistry experience: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. To those without previous exposure, however, a NMR spectroscopy diagram may just look like a series of arbitrary peaks."Ultimately, because the protons in these compounds have characteristic chemical environments and their local electron density changes the magnetic field locally," Oeltzschner explained, "each chemical environment has a different frequency, and these sets of frequencies are highly characteristic for different molecules."Outside dreaded organic chemistry midterms, NMR spectroscopy holds great utility in real-world applications, providing a non-invasive pathway to detect compounds in the human body, helping to diagnose and monitor the progression of diseases."In the human brain, we are able to differentiate about 20 molecules at about millimolar levels... We get markers of neuronal health, cell growth, neurotransmitters, antioxidants, markers of tumors and metabolites that are involved in energy metabolism," Oeltzschner said.One specific example of NMR spectroscopy's utility in disease monitoring lies in the field of neuro-oncology, in which researchers are interested in tracking the effects of the tumor-suppressing drugs ivosidenib and vorasidenib on low-grade gliomas with the isocitrate dehydrogenase-1 (IDH1) mutation. This mutation is unique because it produces a compound called 2-hydroxyglutarate (2-HG), which interferes with normal gene expression, epigenetic regulation and cellular differentiation. The drawback to traditional imaging methods, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), is that the effects these drugs have on tumor growth require months or even years to clearly manifest. This causes substantial delays in optimizing treatment regimens for patients in limited time. Meanwhile, magnetic resonance (MR) spectroscopy may serve as a viable alternative."If we do MR spectroscopy, we see a response to ivosidenib treatment within days to weeks," Oetzlschner said. "The 2-HG signal disappears within days of treatment commencement... [Thus,] spectroscopy is a useful modality to quickly determine if the target engagement is actually working as intended. This is a piece of information that oncologists are very keen to obtain, especially because they cannot get it with any other imaging modality."Although MR spectroscopy holds great potential for imaging applications, it is important to acknowledge that MR spectroscopy diagrams themselves are not images. Unlike qualitative images, quantitative spectroscopy diagrams (spectra) are not intuitively interpretable and require extensive analysis - many organic chemistry students can testify to the difficulty of interpreting NMR spectra. Because spectra are not images, they are often not very compatible with an infrastructure of disease diagnosis and monitoring that heavily relies on images. A significant barrier to the advancement of spectroscopy in medical applications lies in the difficulty of reproducibility."The main problem is, we're looking at [super weak] signals... so this is a fight against noise at every turn... Ultimately... MR spectroscopy estimates of metabolite concentrations. But to get there from our raw data, we have all these [processing] steps that have to happen in between."There are a multitude of ways to process the spectra data and reduce noise, depending on the research or clinical context. Each differing decision, however, affects the end results and interpretation. The processing step of modeling also presents its own challenges."Why do we have to model spectroscopy data in the first place? Again, we want more than the qualitative approach... The [parameters] that we care most about are the amplitudes [signal integrations] that tell us how much of a particular metabolite is in our spectrum. These optimization problems tend to be ill defined; really difficult to solve," Oeltzschner explained.By the time the quantification step is completed, the same data may produce drastically different conclusions in the hands of separate labs. Consequently, the results become non-reproducible and regularization becomes necessary. For a long time, scientific research was held in the hands of an exclusive few, with high entry barriers for non-expert users, but that has gradually begun to change for the better in recent years. Oetzlschner and his collaborators have joined the fight for more open and equitable science by developing an open-source platform, Osprey, for processing and quantitative analyzing in-vivo magnetic resonance spectroscopy data."Osprey basically pulls all these modules into one automated workflow," Oeltzschner explained. "No matter what scanner your data come from, it's loaded and processed in a fully vendor-agnostic way. The tools to load and process these are all now out in the open for anyone to use. Anyone can read these data sets. There's no need to reinvent the wheel and write your own code for this anymore."Although versatile and streamlined, Osprey is just one step of a much larger scientific movement - one guided by a simple desire to share."We're trying to continue this innovative spirit. None of these aforementioned tools [including Osprey] were explicitly funded, so this was largely a labor of love by the people who believed that the field needed change," Oetzlschner emphasized. "We hope that we have made first steps towards bringing spectroscopy into the fold and making it more accessible to people who want to use it."
More people are falling behind on paying their bills to keep on the lights and heat their homes, according to a new analysis of consumer data—a warning sign for the US economy and another political headache for President Trump, the AP reports. Past due balances to utility companies jumped...
SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites in a nighttime liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Tuesday (Nov. 18).
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In striking new statistics, experts warn of social media's growing grip on young people, with use among children and teens soaring by more than 200% since before COVID and showing no sign of decline.
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A first-of-its-kind collaboration, the Hill-Maini Lab hosts two-Michelin-star chef to explore how creativity, technology, and taste help shape a more sustainable future for food.
The day-long celebration offered family-friendly learning, free giveaways and simple science experiments designed to spark curiosity.The post AstroDay brings space, Sun and discovery to Kona first appeared on University of Hawaiʻi System News.
The innovative Celeritas project, led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, provides a software tool that makes sure simulations used to analyze particles can run on the fastest supercomputers, accelerating answers about the nature of the universe.
A new report shows that happiness in the U.S. is falling at one of the fastest rates in the developed world. CBS News correspondent Lana Zak has more.
United Nations climate talks are bubbling to a critical point, with host Brazil pressing negotiators to make progress on key issues. Brazil sent a direct letter to nations and released a draft text on Tuesday that pressed for decisions on...
A new study published in JAMA Network Open analyzed national hospital admission data from 2016 to 2023 to assess whether decriminalizing psychedelics--such as psilocybin ("magic mushrooms")--has led to more people needing emergency or inpatient care.
Ca' Foscari University of Venice is co-directing a major international archaeological mission in the Kasserine region of Tunisia. The excavations, focused on the area of ancient Roman Cillium, on the border with present-day Algeria, concentrate on imposing structures linked to oil production, including two torcularia, olive pressing facilities, one of which has been identified as the second largest Roman oil mill in the entire Empire.
Retailers don't need big financial incentives to get consumers to return used clothing—but they do need the right message. A new peer-reviewed study in the journal Manufacturing & Service Operations Management finds that simply telling consumers their returned items will be "kept out of landfills" significantly increases participation in take-back programs. But when retailers disclose that they may resell those items for profit, participation plummets.
The crew of Shenzhou-21 awaits a new spacecraft after their own ship was used to rescue the crew of the previous mission. The previous mission's ship was damaged by space debris and may not be safe to fly.
We re-examine the expected yield of Gaia astrometric planet detections using updated models for giant-planet occurrence, the local stellar population, and Gaia’s demonstrated astrometric precision. Our analysis combines a semi-analytic model that clarifies key scaling relations with more realistic Monte Carlo simulations. We predict 7,500±2,100 planet discoveries in the 5-year dataset (DR4) and 120,000±22,000 over [...]The post On The Exoplanet Yield Of Gaia Astrometry appeared first on Astrobiology.
A study published in Strategic Management Journal sheds light on the subtle yet significant role that unelected officials play in helping corporations secure successful contract bids.
Researchers at Rice University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have unveiled a physics-based model of magnetic resonance relaxation that bridges molecular-scale dynamics with macroscopic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) signals, promising new insight into how contrast agents interact with water molecules. This advancement paves the way for sharper medical imaging and safer diagnostics using MRI.
Dusk starts to settle across the landscape. The dirt trail, lit by the last licks of sunlight, winds through the trees. The sound of your shuffling footfalls fills the quiet.
Fifty-seven percent of Australians are willing to pay more for clothing made from natural fibers, new Swinburne research reveals.
Researchers at the Institute for Molecular Science (IMS) have definitively resolved a two-decade-long controversy regarding the direction of electron spin on the surface of gold.
The thermodynamic dissipation theory for the origin of life asserts a thermodynamic imperative for the origin of life, suggesting that the fundamental molecules of life originated as self-organized molecular photon dissipative structures (chromophores or pigments) that proliferated over the ocean surface to absorb and dissipate into heat the Archean solar soft UV-C (205-285 nm) and [...]The post Abiogenesis On Different Star Types; a Dissipative Photochemical Perspective appeared first on Astrobiology.
The World Institute of Kimchi (President: Hae Choon Chang), a government-funded research institute under the Ministry of Science and ICT, has confirmed in a new study that bacteriophages, which were previously considered a 'nuisance' during the process of food fermentation, actually play the role of key helpers that facilitate the survival of lactic acid bacteria (LAB).
As golden hour settles over Avtar Dhillon’s farm in Abbotsford, B.C., rows of delicate purple flowers are in full bloom. Inside lies an ancient spice some Canadian farmers are beginning to get excited about.
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Chulalongkorn University proudly congratulates Assoc. Prof. Dr. Pitcha Jongvivatsakul and Dr. Rongrong Cheacharoen for receiving the 23rd L'Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science 2025 Award.
The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, dubbed the "spaceship" that has captivated scientists across the globe
Researchers at MIT Lincoln Laboratory have developed a first-of-its-kind hydrophone built around a simple, commercially available microphone. The device, leveraging a common microfabrication process known as microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), is significantly smaller and less expensive than current hydrophones, yet has equal or exceeding sensitivity. The hydrophone could have applications for the U.S. Navy, as well as industry and the scientific research community.
Quantum imaging settles 20-year debate on gold surface electron spin direction Phys.org
The emergence of protocells from a dilute prebiotic environment is a fundamental challenge in origins-of-life research which requires the simultaneous overcoming of molecular dilution, the establishment of metabolic cycles and the formation of selectively permeable compartments. But where and how such critical conditions are satisfied is very obscure and debated. We demonstrate, using contemporary model [...]The post Mineral-guided Molecular Enrichment: An Interfacial Driving Force For Protocell Emergence On Early Earth appeared first on Astrobiology.
Savannah Dunn tells us what she learned about treating snakes during her time with the Turtle Rescue Team.
Nov. 18, 1989: The Cosmic Background Explorer launches Astronomy Magazine
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Archaeologists unearth a Bronze Age city that was lost for 3,500 years Earth.com'Sophisticated' Bronze Age city unearthed in Kazakhstan 'transforms our understanding of steppe societies' Live ScienceVast Bronze Age city discovered in the plains of Kazakhstan New ScientistArchaeologists Reveal 3,500-Year-Old ‘City of Seven Ravines’ Newsweek‘Vast’ Bronze Age settlement uncovered for first time by archaeologists The Independent
New oxidation process on the moon revealed China.org.cn'Rust' on the moon? Hematite discovered in China's Chang'e-6 lunar samples news.cgtn.comNew lunar minerals discovered in Chang'e-6 samples mark major scientific breakthrough news.cgtn.com‘Iron rust’ found in lunar soil upends what we knew about Moon’s surface The Independent
University of Illinois researchers have developed a new theoretical framework that could dramatically reduce the cost and complexity of predicting chemical reaction energetics without sacrificing accuracy. The method may one day replace the current computational models used in quantum chemistry.
Resolve Therapeutics, a mid-stage clinical biopharmaceutical company pioneering non-immunosuppressive drugs for inflammatory diseases today announced it will highlight its platform and clinical progress in a presentation entitled "Cell-free Nucleic Acids as Drug Targets in Autoimmunity and Acute Brain Injury".
A research team led by Professor Wang Qining from the School of Advanced Manufacturing and Robotics, Peking University, has developed the world's first portable underwater exoskeleton system that assists divers' knee movement, significantly reducing air consumption and muscle effort during dives.
Researchers at the University of Adelaide, in collaboration with German tech company Compolytics, have developed a non-destructive leaf scanning method that can accurately predict the cannabinoid concentrations of cannabis plants.
The Trump administration on Monday announced a major new proposal that could significantly limit the federal government’s ability to enforce laws concerning pollution in waterways and wetlands.
Researchers from The Grainger College of Engineering have combined their fundamental knowledge of metals with new machine learning techniques to generate detailed spatial maps. Their method paves the way towards faster and more accurate autonomous material design.
After combing through nearly 30 years of data produced by Jefferson Lab's Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) in studies of the proton and its excited states, physicists are getting the most complete picture yet of how hadron mass emerges. The monumental work, featured on the cover of a special edition of the journal Symmetry, spans from CEBAF's first experiments to present day and lays out the future discoveries that would be unlocked by studies with a higher-energy electron beam.
The Columbia Memorial Space Center and the city of Downey celebrated the groundbreaking of its expansion project on Monday, Nov. 17.
Hydrogen fuels represent a clean energy option, but a major hurdle in making its use more mainstream is efficient storage. Hydrogen storage requires either extremely high-pressure tanks or extremely cold temperatures, which means that storage alone consumes a lot of energy. This is why metal hydrides, which can store hydrogen more efficiently, are such a promising option.
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Floating solar panels are emerging as a promising clean energy solution with environmental benefits, but a new study finds those effects vary significantly depending on where the systems are deployed.Researchers from Oregon State University and the U.S. Geological Survey modeled the impact of floating solar photovoltaic systems on 11 reservoirs across six states. Their simulations showed that the systems consistently cooled surface waters and altered water temperatures at different layers within the reservoirs. However, the panels also introduced increased variability in habitat suitability for aquatic species.“Different reservoirs are going to respond differently based on factors like depth, circulation dynamics and the fish species that are important for management,” said Evan Bredeweg, lead author of the study and a former postdoctoral scholar at Oregon State. “There’s no one-size-fits-all formula for designing these systems. It’s ecology - it’s messy.”While the floating solar panel market is established and growing in Asia, it remains limited in the United States, mostly to small pilot projects. However, a study released earlier this year by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory estimated that U.S. reservoirs could host enough floating solar panel systems to generate up to 1,476 terawatt-hours annually, enough to power approximately 100 million homes.Floating solar panels offer several advantages. The cooling effect of the water can boost panel efficiency by an estimated 5 to 15%. The systems can also be integrated with existing hydroelectric and transmission infrastructure. They may also help reduce evaporation, which is especially valuable in warmer, drier climates.However, these benefits come with questions about potential impacts on aquatic ecosystems, an area that has received limited scientific attention.“Understanding the environmental risks and the variability in ecological responses to floating photovoltaic deployment is crucial for informing regulatory agencies and guiding sustainable energy development,” Bredeweg said.The new study used advanced modeling techniques to assess the implications of floating solar panel deployment on entire reservoirs. Researchers examined reservoirs in Oregon, Ohio, Washington, Idaho, Tennessee and Arkansas, analyzing two-month periods in both summer and winter.They found that changes in temperature and oxygen dynamics caused by floating solar panels can influence habitat availability for both warm-water and cold-water fish species. For instance, cooler water temperatures in summer generally benefit cold-water species, though this effect is most pronounced when panel coverage exceeds 50%.The researchers note the need for continued research and long-term monitoring to ensure floating photovoltaic systems support clean energy goals without compromising aquatic ecosystems.“History has shown that large-scale modifications to freshwater ecosystems, such as hydroelectric dams, can have unforeseen and lasting consequences,” Bredeweg said. Co-authors of the paper include Ivan Arismendi of Oregon State’s Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences; Sarah Henkel of the Hatfield Marine Science Center at Oregon State; and Christina Murphy of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Maine Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit.
Recent double-blind, placebo-controlled trials on the multi-ingredient formula Mind Lab Pro® suggest this new wave of natural nootropics may offer genuine cognitive benefits.
Developed through a partnership with industry, the research will help improve efficiency and resiliency for technology used in next-generation electric motors and other applications. When current flows through a wire, it doesn't always have a perfect path. Tiny defects within the wire mean current must travel a more circuitous route, a problem for engineers and manufacturers seeking reliable equipment.
Argonne's 2005 GridFTP breakthrough with Globus wins the SC25 Test of Time Award for transforming how massive datasets move across supercomputing systems to power global research.
At first glance, helping those on the other side of a conflict seems like an act of compassion and progress. Yet new research from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem shows that even seemingly well-intentioned initiatives can produce the opposite result.
img src="https://www.newswise.com/legacy/image.php?image=/images/uploads/2025/11/17/691b2eb34b510_1.jpgwidth=100height=150" alt="Newswise image" /Anthocyanins, the pigments that give blueberries their vivid coloration, are also recognized for their potential health benefits. However, their biological effectiveness depends largely on chemical modifications such as acylation, which can increase molecular stability and human absorption.
Real-life kaiju : What B.C.’s Burgess Shale reveals about bizarre Cambrian creatures Canadian Geographic
An international team of astronomers have employed the Spektr-RG spacecraft and various ground-based telescopes to investigate a distant quasar known as ID830. Results of the new observations, published November 7 on the pre-print server arXiv, indicate that ID830 is the most X-ray luminous radio-loud quasar known to date.
Western Sydney University has launched a groundbreaking new study on the use of intimate partner violence (IPV) by young men aged 16–25. This is the first Australian study on this topic, and the first to speak to young men who use violence themselves.
Ferroelectric materials are used in infrared cameras, medical ultrasounds, computer memory and actuators that turn electric properties into mechanical properties and vice-versa. Most of these essential materials, however, contain lead and can therefore be toxic.
Stargazers across the United States are in for a treat this weekend as the annual Leonids meteor shower lights up the night sky.
The apple of my eye: How I’ve created a plant-health tracker for farmers in Tanzania Nature
Researchers have taken a significant step toward creating a standardized language for describing the aromas of cannabis and hemp.
The Graduate School welcomed nearly 60 new Dean’s Scholars at an event to honor students who were nominated and selected for this distinction for their demonstrated academic excellence, leadership and service.
Future mission to Mars should focus on these caverns. The post Scientist Say They’ve Found Caves on Mars That May Contain Life appeared first on Futurism.
Breakthrough in atomic clock technology promises advances in precise timekeeping and fundamental science University of Toronto
Business professor Adam Mersereau used mathematical models to answer a deceptively simple question with big implications.
Economist Rebecca Patterson is a little worried that the US economy is starting to look like a game of Jenga. In a New York Times essay, Patterson sees a parallel with the game in which players pull wooden blocks from a tower and place them on top—until the thing...
Quasars acting as strong gravitational lenses are among the rarest finds in astronomy. Out of nearly 300,000 quasars cataloged in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, only twelve candidates were identified, and just three confirmed. These systems are exceptionally valuable because they allow astronomers to precisely measure the mass of a quasar's host galaxy, something that is normally impossible given that the overwhelming brightness of the quasar itself drowns out its surroundings.
New research examines how social approval from different sources predicts relationship quality for intercultural couples. Researchers found that having supportive friends can be a powerful protective factor, especially when they face disapproval from family or society more broadly.
Researchers have successfully performed the world's first Milky Way simulation that accurately represents more than 100 billion individual stars over the course of 10 thousand years. This feat was accomplished by combining artificial intelligence (AI) with numerical simulations. Not only does the simulation represent 100 times more individual stars than previous state-of-the-art models, but it was produced more than 100 times faster.
As the days continue to get shorter, scientists have made a significant discovery in understanding exactly what makes mammals exhibit seasonal behaviors like hibernation and migration.
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The Sentinel-6B satellite will liftoff atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base at 9:21:42 p.m. PST (12:21:42 a.m. EST / 0521:42 UTC), almost exactly five years after its twin, the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, launched from the same pad.
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One Tuesday morning, while standing next to my club's harm reduction card, I watched as an elderly woman in a wheelchair pushed herself forward, nearly passing me on her way to the Johns Hopkins Hospital. She looked up to greet me, then caught one glimpse of our banner which dons clip art images of a syringe, a small pipe with smoke coming out of it and Band-Aids."Do you have any Narcan?" she asked, reversing her chair to turn to me with an inquisitive smile."Sure thing," I responded. I opened the cabinet door, revealing a stack of white Narcan boxes. This is one of the most important supplies we distribute; a device that sprays a small dose of naloxone into the nose, preventing terminal overdose episodes by blocking opioid receptors.Hop-On Harm Reduction has become a critical site of care for the Middle East neighborhoods of Baltimore. Outside of naloxone, we also provide clean needles and smoking kits, making injection and consumption of drugs safer without guilt and pressure that rehab centers and the general public often propagate. More recently, we have expanded our operation to include wound care supplies, specifically addressing skin-related illnesses that result from the consumption of opioids.I handed the lady the box as she rummaged for room in her purse. At the same time, I watched a younger lady hop out of a tow truck, stroll towards the cart and stand next to the first customer. After exchanging a few words of welcome, she too said that she was looking for Narcan."You never know who you are going to find these days needing this," she saidIt's true. 210 people lose their life everyday from overdosing in the United States. In 2023, it was up to 300s, according to the National Institute of Health. This same year, overdose episodes killed more residents per capita in Baltimore than any other city, resulting in 170 deaths per 100,000 residents.I passed the second woman her box of Narcan. She told me that she was grateful for our cart, describing that she often needed to jump out of her truck while riding around the city to administer Narcan. "I have saved two lives so far," she said.The woman in the wheelchair, who had finally located a corner of her bag to place her box in, responded."I just wish someone like you had been there for my brother," she said. She turned around to me and furrowed her eyebrows. "Someone found him lying on the stoop of a house. A stoop! Someone probably walked past, and didn't do anything."The tow-truck employee walked to the other side of the wheelchair, and said that she also had a brother that lost his life due to an overdose. "He was on the train. People thought that he was just asleep," she said.While I was stunned at how non-chalantly these two women described the loss of their brothers to overdose, it is naive to ignore that this is unfortunately common in Baltimore. However, drugs are not the only reason why people who use them die. The apathy, fear, unawareness and misinformation among the general public when it comes to use and addiction means there are very few people who will approach another to save them from overdose. The ladies in front of me surely thought so, orienting their conversation towards one of a more hopeful future."I don't hesitate. If someone is laying the ground, I stick this up their nose, whether they like it or not!" said one of them."God bless you," responded the other.Many are critical of harm reduction's expanding movement in the United States. Conservative philosophies surrounding addiction often associate death and illness from using drugs as the negative incentive that drug users need to encourage prevention. However, this ignores the context of people's lives which makes using drugs attractive. Just as addiction is a habit forged over long periods of time to help cope with the problems contingent to one's daily life, getting clean takes time too, and oftentimes, it takes many attempts before recovery is reached. In fact, the risk of overdose is highest right after exiting a treatment. Meanwhile, sharing needles during relapses due to a lack of safe equipment means that there is a continued risk of transmitting diseases such as HIV, which 1 in 10 suffer from.Finally, using Narcan, or other forms of the naloxone compound, has become the most popular method of preventing death during an overdose. It is easy to use for the average person, who, after following steps to identify an overdose, can simply inject the spray into the receiver's nose to stop worsening and fatal symptoms. In Baltimore, over 18,000 people have been saved as the city government implements programs to distribute Narcan to the public. While clinicians develop novel ways of approaching recovery, harm reduction intends to make ingestion safer for people who use drugs, preventing unnecessary health risks and deaths that have impacted the lives of many Baltimoreans.Each armed with their box of Narcan, the two ladies waved goodbye and parted ways. The elderly lady wheeled onward toward the hospital and the young tow truck driver walked back to her vehicle, jumping back into her seat before slamming its door shut. I returned to my seat, glancing at the swarm of birds around the roof vents of the Northeast Market while bass thudded from the speakers of the Caribbean restaurant down the street. While it often feels like our cart is a world apart from the daily life that we see in front of us, many carry the stories of drug-related tragedies, like the past two customers. Harm reduction carts are not only the solutions to ending these stories before they begin, but also fruitful spaces where people can openly share and unload the burden of their past experiences. These two methods create conversations around overdose and illness that inspire hopeful futures for those that most need them.
Ottawa will back a study on the potential of specialized icebreakers, ice tugs and research vessels at the port of Churchill, while Manitoba pledged $51 million to improve the rail line and a new critical-minerals storage facility at the port.
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In March of 2024 the [DESI collaboration](https://www.desi.lbl.gov/collaboration/) dropped a bombshell on the cosmological community: slim but significant evidence that dark energy might be getting weaker with time.
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Swift observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed the explosive death of a star just as the blast was breaking through the star’s surface. For the first time, astronomers unveiled the shape of the explosion at its earliest, fleeting stage. This brief initial phase wouldn’t have been observable a day later and helps address a whole set of questions about how massive stars go supernova.
Conjugated polymers are a type of semiconductor and have properties that make it possible to produce a new type of technology.The post Pioneering method creates wearable, conductive plastics appeared first on Digital Journal.
So I got an email from Adam Reiss. You know, the guy who was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Saul Perlmutter and Brian Schmidt for discovering the rate of cosmic expansion is accelerating. He pointed out a few issues with the decelerating Universe paper, and with his permission I'd like to share them with you.
A breath of fresh air. It feels like a breath of fresh air.I have long avoided publicizing my political opinions and endorsements. I decline answering political questions, maintaining a front of pledged ignorance toward hard-hitting issues to avoid societal judgement or breaking peaceful discourse. Lately, however, my silence toward U.S. politics stems from a growing disillusionment with a system that I know, deep down, does not change from my outcry or frustration. As a left-leaning, Muslim and South Asian immigrant, I have stopped tracking the influx of old white men (often with sexual assault allegations) claiming they represent me and the average, working-class American, while instead representing the interests of the wealthy elite. Ever since the Democratic party morphed into a faded defensive line against Donald Trump's absurd unconstitutional practices, I have consistently fled from political spheres in defeat. I walk on the streets of New York City, paying hundreds of dollars for groceries in a two-person household, witnessing the dignity draining from neighbors on the street who can't afford their homes and fearing for racially and ideologically-targeted violence, in complete defeat.So when I heard about Zohran Kwame Mamdani's bid to win the NYC mayoral primary, I laughed. I looked into his virtual eyes, heard his bold stance as a Democratic-Socialist and simply laughed at the thought of a Muslim immigrant running the country's biggest financial and cultural powerhouse - in the second Trump era, at that. In fear of growing attached to his charismatic appeal and bold pleas to make the city that I call home more affordable and inclusive of its multiethnic residents, I shook away any possibility of Mamdani winning the primary. Months later, here he is: the NYC mayor-elect, and here I am: a New Yorker who finally sees her vision for the city far from the margins of American politics and at the forefront of Mamdani's new, people-centered administration.Born in Uganda and raised in NYC, Mamdani has represented the city's diverse heartbeat every step through his campaign. Nearly 37% of New Yorkers were born outside of the U.S., 49% speak a language other than English at home and nearly half of the city's businesses are owned by immigrants. NYC alone consists of hundreds of neighborhoods, consistently evolving in demographic composition and cultural practices. Whether through translating campaign literature and videos in Urdu, Arabic, Bangla, Spanish and more or visiting taxi drivers at LaGuardia Airport and immigrant owners in bodegas, Mamdani made it his mission to convince the city's cultural diaspora that he runs as a vessel for them. Departing from the norm of a distanced, elite politician to a man of the people, Mamdani signals a prominent shift in American politics. Even the branding of Mamdani's campaign - "Zohran for New York City" - exemplifies his drive to connect with New Yorkers as a human being on a first-name basis, someone who works for them.By April of 2025, the average monthly rent across NYC approached $3,966, about 144% more than the U.S. national average of $1,625. According to Mamdani's platform, 25% of all NYC homeowners spend more than half their income on housing: far above the 30% "affordability" benchmark. Atrociously, millions of New Yorkers live day to day, barely making ends meet in a city they've lived in their entire lives. NYC has grown to be an incredibly unlivable city, and politicians have shamefully avoided tackling the affordability crisis head-on - until now. Mamdani's platform has boldly tackled housing affordability, proposing to build 200,000 new rent-stabilized homes in the next decade, city-owned grocery stores, fare-free buses, free childcare and a rent freeze for the current two million rent-stabilized apartments if he wins. In contrast, current mayor Eric Adams has only raised rents on stabilized apartments by 12.6%.His campaign even launched an "affordability calculator," showing that a family using his free bus and child-care proposals could save an estimated $45,960 annually under his plan. For once, his campaign does not chirp around issues, instead blatantly committing to the unglamorous yet proper role of government: one that rightfully exists to "lower costs and make lives better."Perhaps most controversially, Mamdani is one of the few politicians to boldly condemn the Israeli government for its actions in Gaza, including intentionally committing genocide and mass famine, according to the United Nations. Mamdani has promised to end the New York City-Israel Economic Council, established by current mayor Adams. More impressively, Mamdani has separated anti-Zionism and antisemitism to allow for accountability measures against Israel, while staunchly campaigning against antisemitism and committing to protect Jewish New Yorkers. Mamdani easily could have dulled his voice down, morphing his true feelings into the dominant attitudes surrounding him, but he refused to budge. He chose to remain steadfast in his lifelong advocacy for the Palestinian cause. In an age where politicians often mold their beliefs and appeals to the whims of current order at the time, Mamdani's authenticity eases my naturally-inclined distrust of politicians.Throughout the campaign, former New York governor and independent nominee Andrew Cuomo has capitalized on the ambivalence of Jewish voters, arguing that Mamdani poses a threat to the city's Jewish community by calling him a "terrorist sympathizer" and proclaiming that "anti-Zionism is antisemitism." In a radio interview, Cuomo agreed as a conservative host on WABC said Mamdani would cheer another 9/11-style attack. Cuomo's campaign briefly posted an AI-generated video on social media that depicted Mamdani eating rice with his hands and called him an "inexperienced radical." Beyond Cuomo, the Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa falsely accused Mamdani of supporting "global jihad" during a televised debate. Adams, after endorsing Cuomo, said the city risked falling into "Islamic extremism" as Europe had if Mamdani was elected.In this age, political opponents regularly resort to brutal comments when running for a contested position; however, why is it normal to direct race- and religion-based attacks to Mamdani? Why can't a Muslim man run for a political office without being labeled as sympathetic to terrorists? Why can't an Indian man run without derogatory portrayals of eating culture? Beyond himself, Mamdani's bid has been scary for all Muslims in New York, who are well familiar with the rise of Islamophobia resulting from Muslims being brought to the forefront of American politics. Muslims know they will face the brute force of any hatred toward Mamdani. But despite these attacks and despite this attempted defaming, Mamdani persisted in his identity and his message, even visiting over 50 mosques throughout his campaign.I grew up in NYC years after the 9/11 attacks; in its brutal shadow, I've seen it all: from a bus driver kicking me and my mom off early on my way to elementary school for "security reasons," to receiving anonymous text messages telling me "my people should pay for the twin towers." Witnessing a man shamelessly embrace his religion and heritage, while publicly and tearfully sharing the Muslim experience in NYC, mended a part of me that I didn't realize was broken. For the first time, a political leader has emphasized that Muslims should not have to hide their faith in their own city but rather, they should carry it proudly. Mamdani's courage has made Muslims like me finally open up about the aches that have built up from years of silent societal assault and see a glimpse of a healing light ahead.Mamdani's win is nothing short of a perfectly audacious revolutionary paradigm shift. He has rewritten the script on what it means to be a politician and, at that, a South Asian Muslim politician. Without letting fear stop him, Mamdani ran to become a political disruptor. He convinced the city run by Wall Street businessmen and corrupt politicians that it's ready to have a loud, idealistic, unapologetically Democratic-Socialist man lead its people. This beginning of his legacy has energized a new force in American politics: South Asians and young voters. I know when I return home to Mamdani's New York, I don't have to slouch my shoulders in tension with my identity and the surrounding politics.So, yes, Mamdani's win feels like a breath of fresh air.Myra Saeed is a sophomore majoring in Chemistry and History from Queens, N.Y. She is a News and Features Editor for The News-Letter.
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