Month: April 2025
NPR and PBS will have funding cut by Trump
US President Donald Trump said the US Institute of Peace (USIPF) is “not a bull in a china shop”, referring to the NGO’s recent report on alleged human rights abuses by US military. The report claimed USIPF was involved in widespread abuses of human rights across the world, including violations of children’s rights. It added that the NGO was not a “fascist organisation”.
Read MoreJudge demands to know if the White House is assisting in returning wrongly deported person
A US federal judge wants to know if the White House is acting in “bad faith” in a Maryland man’s case, who was mistakenly sent to a notorious Salvadoran prison. The hearing is the first courtroom appearance about Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia’s case after he met with US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Monday. Garcia was wrongly deported to El Salvador.
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A.D.H.D. is a new research that contained 5 conclusions
Talking about Arterial Deficit Disorder, researcher Edmund Sonuga-Barke, from London’s King’s College, said, “We’ve a clinical definition of A.D.H.D. that is increasingly unanchored from what we’re finding in our science.” He added, “I invested 35 years of my life trying to find the causes of A.D.H.D. less well than we thought we did a couple of decades ago.”
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Nature’s guide to what’s next was the subject of a number of lawsuits
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has reportedly terminated nearly 800 research projects at a breakneck pace, wiping out significant chunks of funding to whole scientific fields. The analysis by Nature said that 17% of the terminated research projects were related to COVID-19 and 29% to HIV/AIDS. Scientists have accused NIH and the White House of “arbitrary and capricious” actions.
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There’s a serious environmental impact on dogs, but owners can mitigate it
Researchers have created the largest-ever 3D map of a mouse’s brain, and have described their work in a package of eight papers published in Nature and Nature Methods. The high-resolution 3D map contains more than 200,000 brain cells, around 82,000 of which are neurons. The wiring diagram of a mouse’s brain is the most detailed so far.
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The road to a good night’s sleep is expensive and frustrating
In clinical trials, Idorsia showed that compared with people given a placebo, people who received daridorexant experienced significant improvements in daytime insomnia symptoms the following day. The main drawback to DOR drugs is not medical but financial: Their high cost keeps them out of reach for many people who could benefit from them, Buysse said.
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Researchers are trying to figure out why sleep is important
A study on fruit flies found that when they were deprived of sleep, they started dying as soon as they reached the end of their life span. Researchers also found that a sleep-deprived fruit fly had less amyloid andtau in its brain, a protein that is known to cause Alzheimer’s Disease. The flies that slept were placed in vibrating tubes.
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The debate about brain clearance and dementia
Maiken Nedergaard, a neuroscientist at the University of Rochester in US, has claimed that people who report six hours or less of sleep a night are more likely to develop dementia later. In her latest paper, Nedergaard said that “we have mice that sleep completely normally”. She added that the fibers mounted in a hook can’t be carried on a mouse’s head.
Read MoreWhat will the cuts at the Centers for Disease Control do to global programs?
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will have to reduce spending on contracts by at least a third, Robert Steinbrook, health research group director at the Public Citizen, said. This comes after President Donald Trump ordered a 25% reduction in staff and 35% reduction in contracts for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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The first DNA profiles from ancient people who lived in a lush area of Africa
Researchers claim to have extracted ancient DNA from two women who died around 7,000 years ago in Libya to reconstruct the beginnings of the Saharans. The DNA profiles represent the first full Saharan genomes from the African Humid Period. Researchers said the DNA profiles represent the first full Saharan genomes from the African Humid Period and reveal that the people were remarkably isolated from other African populations.
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