The Rot at the Top
As elections loom, Democrats must connect the dots between higher prices and the corruption of the Trump regime and its Republican enablers.
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Why Trump Opted for Existential AI Risks
By treating American technological primacy as a national-security imperative, the administration can oppose the slowing of American AI development as strategically dangerous.
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Research Integrity – why robust antibody validation is vital for drug discovery
Trusting off-the-shelf antibodies to do what the companies that sell them say they do should be a given – but it isn’t.
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NASA’s Webb Provides Crash Course on Planet-Shattering Collisions
In the early history of our solar system, scientists theorize that a Mars-sized object called Theia smashed into the infant Earth, vaporizing massive amounts of…
Viral Google Maps Images Shared Widely This Week Show Gaza Ruins. We Obtained More Recent Satellite Imagery
Earlier this week, several viral social media posts and news articles stated that Google had updated satellite imagery over Gaza. The imagery shared in these…
Ebola response faces setback as transit centre burns down in DR Congo camp
The enormous challenge of halting the spread of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) just became even harder after a key transit…
No more execution attempts on Christa Pike: UN rights chief
The UN human rights chief and nine independent rights experts on Thursday called on authorities in Tennessee not to pursue any further attempts to execute…
If the BMJ Wants to Revisit Venerable Institutions Who Misled the Public in 2021, They Should Look Inward at the BMJ
Until the BMJ demonstrate the integrity to revisit their own dismal failures regarding life and death matters, there’s no reason to care about their opinions…
Weakened US fuel-efficiency rules and promises of cheaper cars could see drivers pay higher running costs while also increasing carbon emissions.
Weakened US fuel-efficiency rules and promises of cheaper cars could yet see drivers pay higher running costs while increasing planet-heating emissions.
Taking Social Relations as the Basic Unit of Analysis
In capitalism, social relations of production exert outsized force on all other domains, distorting and warping relations of reproduction, protection, and meaning-making without fully annihilating…