Luddites Is A Popular Technophobe Insult - Here's Who They Were American filmmaker George Lucas is one of the latest to indicate he’s open to AI in the movie industry. In a recent interview, the director said resistance to the technology was “very much like sitting here saying: ‘Well, I believe the horse and the …
Weaponizing Fraud: Trump Withholds Over $1B in Medicaid From California and Minnesota The Trump administration announced on July 21, 2026, that it’s withholding US$867 million in federal healthcare funding for California and $200 million for Minnesota – a total of more than $1 billion. Federal officials said the two states had failed to provide sufficient …
Does Cyclosporiasis Outbreak Mean Local Is Safer? The cyclosporiasis outbreak linked to fresh produce in the United States is raising concerns in Canada about the safety of imported food. While Canada has seen some recent cases of cyclosporiasis, officials say there is no link with the U.S. outbreak. The outbreak has drawn attention to public …
Trump Administration Rules Make Research Slower, Costlier and Harder to Share Most Americans don’t read the rules that govern the federal grants funding science. Those rules, called the Uniform Guidance, shape how cancer research is funded, graduate students are trained, clinical trials are sustained, universities stock their labs and discoveries from those labs move into …
South Africa’s Food System Is Failing Children Child malnutrition in South Africa casts a long shadow across the life course. For example, stunting or being short for their age compromises children’s physical growth and their brain development in ways that limit their education and employment prospects. Stunted and overweight children are both at greater risk …
Spend More Time With Your Dog This Christmas As daylight shortens and routines slow down, many people experience a dip in mood and motivation. The run-up to Christmas is marketed as joyful, but for a large number of households it brings family strain and a surprising amount of loneliness. Against this backdrop, it’s no wonder …
Can scientists detect life without knowing what it looks like? When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they found something astonishing.Dust and rock collected from the asteroid Bennu contained many of life’s building blocks, including all five nucleobases used in DNA and RNA, 14 of …
TWA 7 b: James Webb Space Telescope Finds Its First New Exoplanet The James Webb Space Telescope, launched in 2021 and on active duty since 2022, has gotten its legs viewing already known exoplanets but can now take credit for its first direct image of a previously unknown one. Exoplanets have been detected since 1992 when …
No Secretary Kennedy, The MMR Vaccine Does Not Contain 'Aborted Fetus Debris' Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the United States’ top public health official, recently claimed some religious groups avoid the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine because it contains “aborted fetus debris” and “DNA particles”. The US is facing its worst measles outbreaks in years …
Curiosity Found New Carbon Molecules On Mars. What Does It Mean For Alien Life? Nasa’s Curiosity Mars rover has detected the largest organic (carbon-containing) molecules ever found on the red planet. The discovery is one of the most significant findings in the search for evidence of past life on Mars. This is because, on Earth …
