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Tuesday the Senate confirmed Dr. Jay Bhattacharya as director of the National Institutes of Health, installing a Contrrianian who has committed himself to reforming scientific financing practices as the leader of the main medical research agency in the world.The confirmation of Dr. Bhattacharya-With a party vote from 53 to 47-arriva when the Nih, with a budget of $ 48 billion, was beaten by recent cuts to staff and orders to pause or cancel vast research funding.Dr. Bhattacharya, an economist of health and medicine professor in Stanford, has largely taken questions about these cuts during a confirmation hearing at the beginning of March.He escaped in the public spotlight in 2020, when he was among the writers of an anti-blocco treaty, the great declaration of Barrington, who supported for ...

On Tuesday, the Israeli police interrogated a Palestinian director of a documentary winner of the Oscar, according to the authorities and his lawyer, after the witnesses reported that the Israeli settlers attacked him near his home on the western Israeli occasion.The police held Hamdan Ball, 37 years old, one of the directors of the film, "no other land" and two other Palestinians on charges of launching stones to Israeli vehicles and hurting a settler - accusations that all deny, according to Leah Tsemel, a lawyer who represents the dehanas.A settler, a minor was also arrested, but was released for medical care and would have been questioned later, according to the Israeli police.The details of the episode are not entirely clear. But the Palestinian witnesses and a group of American activ...

Two days after a coalition of conservatives won the German federal elections last month, the governor of Bavaria went on Instagram to say that the party was "ready for political change" and published a group framework of the probable future chancellor, Friedrich Merz, with five other leaders.The photo seemed to suggest that a changed Germany will be extraordinarily similar to the old country: it shows six middle -aged white white men sitting around a snack table. The only apparent concession to modern sensitivity was that half of them did not wear ties.Three and a half years after the only woman to serve as a retired chancellor, German national politics seems to be backsliding when it comes to diversity and gender equality. While in the United States the new administration has actively tri...

For just over two years, technological leaders on the front line in the development of artificial intelligence had made an unusual request from legislators. They wanted Washington to regulate them.The technological managers warned the legislators that generative artificial intelligence, which can produce texts and images that imitate human creations, had the potential to interrupt national security and elections and in the end they could eliminate millions of jobs.Artificial intelligence could go "badly", Sam Altman, Openi's CEO, testified to Congress in May 2023. "We want to work with the government to prevent this from happening".But from the elections of President Trump, the technological leaders and their companies have changed their melody and in some cases have reversed the course, w...

When the Biotechnological company Humacyte designed a study to see if its blood vessel raised in the laboratory worked, she decided to measure if the blood flowed freely through the high -tech tube 30 days after it was implanted in a person.With the passage of those days, some of the 54 patients in the study came across trouble. The doctors have lost the trace of one. Four are dead. Four others had an amputated limb, including one who developed a clot and an infection in the artificial ship records, Food and Drug Administration Records.Humacyte, which is exchanged on Nasdaq, considered all those patients as proof of success in talks with investors and in an article on Jama surgery.At the FDA, however, scientists counted the dead, amputations and the case lost as failures, show the register...

The mayor of Istanbul was imprisoned pending his trial for corruption accusations and removed from the position on Sunday, limping a contender potential in the next presidential elections of Turkey and the main rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.The mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, was arrested at his home Wednesday, four days before being appointed presidential candidate of the political opposition of Türkiye. He denied the accusations against him, that Mr. Erdogan's opponents called a stratagem to hinder the presidential offer of a popular politician.The court ordered that Mr. Imamoglu was imprisoned with accusations of corruption pending a trial. Public ministries accused him of leading a criminal organization and supervising corruption, rigging and other financial misdeeds at the Town Hall....

President Trump claims to be focused on the arrest of the "march of death" in Ukraine "as soon as possible".But for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, the interviews of ceased Mr. Trump are a means for much wider purposes.Russian and American officials will meet on Monday in Saudi Arabia to deepen their negotiations on the technical details of a partial fire to stop attacks on energy structures and ships in the Black Sea. While Ukraine says that it is ready for a respite, Putin has clarified that it will first look for a wide range of concessions.The result: the Kremlin seems determined to squeeze as many benefits as possible by the desire of Mr. Trump of a Ukrainian peace agreement, even if the negotiations will be back to slow down. Seen from Moscow, better ties with Washington are a...

NASA made a bet a few years ago that commercial companies could bring scientific experiments to the moon with a lower budget than the agency.Last year, it was a bad bet. The first spatial vehicle financed by NASA completely missed the moon. The second has landed but has fallen.But this month, a robotic lander named Blue Ghost, built by Firefly Aerospace of Cedar Park, in Texas, managed from start to finish.On March 16, the mood to the Firefly mission operations outside Austin was a mix of happy and melancholy. There was nothing else to worry about, nothing to do, except looking at the company's spatial vehicle to die.At a quarter of a million miles away, the sun had already placed itself on the mare crisis, the lunar lava plain where Blue Ghost had collected scientific observations for two...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of the nation health, on Saturday he instructed the leaders of the non -profit who founded to break down a web page that imitated the design of the centers for the control of diseases and the prevention site, but presented a case that the vaccines cause autism.The page had been published on an apparently recorded site on non-profit, the health defense for children of the anti-Vaccino group. Mr. Kennedy's action came after the New York Times asked for information on the page and after the news bounced on social media.The page was brought offline on Saturday evening. "Secretary Kennedy has commissioned the office of the General Consultant to send a formal question to the defense of children's health that requires the removal of their website," said the Depart...

The rockets were fired from Lebanon in Israel for the first time in months of Saturday, pushing the Israeli forces to go back to the southern Lebanon sites after hours, according to which they were linked to the Hezbollah militant group.At least six people in Lebanon were killed in the Israeli bombing and other injured, according to the declarations of the Lebanese Ministry of Health, which does not distinguish between civilians and fighters. The Israeli army said she launched a second cycle of attacks on Saturday evening.The attacks were the last example of how the renewed Israeli offensive to Gaza was rippling through the Middle East. They also risk further interrupting the return of tens of thousands of displaced residents on both sides of the border that had fled more than a year of fi...