Measles Cases in Kansas May Be Linked to Texas Outbreak
admin Measles cases in Kansas more than doubled in the last week, bringing the tally to 20, while another outbreak in Ohio has sickened 10 people, local public health officials reported…
March 2025
H.H.S. Scraps Studies of Vaccines and Treatments for Future Pandemics
The Trump administration has canceled funding for dozens of studies seeking new vaccines and treatments for Covid-19 and other pathogens that may cause future pandemics. The government’s rationale is that…
Atom-based machine learning for estimating nucleophilicity and electrophilicity with applications to retrosynthesis and chemical stability
Nucleophilicity and electrophilicity are important properties for evaluating the reactivity and selectivity of chemical reactions. It allows the ranking of nucleophiles and electrophiles on reactivity scales, enabling a better understanding…
How to respond to digital regulation in 2025
Given digital technology is so central to how we live, work, transact and communicate, we have recently seen the finalisation of an unprecedented amount of digital regulation in both…
Silane cooperation with Ce (III) to construct efficient protective layer and induce uniform deposition of Zn2+ for ultra-stable Zn anode
Aqueous Zn ion batteries (ZIBs) are gaining interest in large-scale energy storage systems due to their intrinsic safety, low cost and sustainability. Unfortunately, water-induced side reactions and dendrite growth on…
Trump Administration Abruptly Cuts Billions From State Health Services
The Department of Health and Human Services has abruptly canceled more than $12 billion in federal grants to states that were being used for tracking infectious diseases, mental health services,…
Military AI caught in tension between speed and control
Military planners and industry figures say artificial intelligence (AI) can unlock back-office efficiency for the UK’s armed forces and help commanders make faster, better-informed decisions, but “intractable problems” baked into…
Environmentally ion-dissociable high-performance supramolecular polyelectrolyte plastics
Robust and stiff polymeric materials usually rely on dense covalent crosslinking, which endows them with excellent properties such as high durability and outstanding thermal stability. However, because of the strong…
Chancellor Rachel Reeves to use AI to catch wealthy tax dodgers
In her Spring Statement, Chancellor Rachel Reeves said government departments will reduce their administrative budgets by 15% by the end of the decade, adding that the savings on back-office…
Elucidating the Solution Structure of the Monomolecular BCL2 RNA G-quadruplex: A New Robust NMR Assignment Approach
5′ untranslated regions (UTRs) of mRNA commonly feature G-quadruplexes (G4s), crucial for translational regulation and promising as drug targets to modulate gene expression. While NMR spectroscopy is well-suited for studying…