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D.C. Health Provider Promotes HIV Prevention Tool on PrEP Awareness Day

D.C. Health Provider Promotes HIV Prevention Tool on PrEP Awareness Day

Whitman-Walker Health, a leader in LGBTQ health care and HIV treatment in Washington, D.C., is using Wednesday’s PrEP Awareness Day to highlight an underutilized tool in HIV prevention that has proven 99% effective when taken as prescribed....

Democratic States, D.C. Sue Trump Administration

Democratic States, D.C. Sue Trump Administration

(MENAFN) Twenty-four states led by Democrats, along with the District of Columbia, have initiated a legal challenge against the Trump administration’s choice to suspend $6 billion in financial support designated for after-school initiatives,...

Protein Kinase C-β Inhibition and Survival Signaling after Simulated Cardioplegic-Ischemia/Reperfusion in Nondiabetic and Diabetic Human Coronary Arterial Endothelial Cells

Protein Kinase C-β Inhibition and Survival Signaling after Simulated Cardioplegic-Ischemia/Reperfusion in Nondiabetic and Diabetic Human Coronary Arterial Endothelial Cells

Cardioplegic-ischemia/reperfusion injury (C-I/R) refers to the pathophysiological cascade caused by the sequential restriction and restoration of blood supply, and is implicated both as an impetus for and a consequence of cardiac surgery.1,2...

UPSC Essentials | Daily subject-wise quiz : Science and Technology MCQs on re-entry of a spacecraft, microgravity and more (Week 119)

UPSC Essentials | Daily subject-wise quiz : Science and Technology MCQs on re-entry of a spacecraft, microgravity and more (Week 119)

UPSC Essentials brings to you its initiative of subject-wise quizzes. These quizzes are designed to help you revise some of the most important topics from the static part of the syllabus. Attempt today’s subject quiz on Science and Technology to...

Beloved Greensboro Science Center alpaca 'Snowball' dies

Beloved Greensboro Science Center alpaca 'Snowball' dies

The Greensboro Science Center mourns Snowball the alpaca, a long-time favorite, who has died at 21 after signs of aging and illness. GREENSBORO, N.C. — Snowball, a beloved alpaca and long-time resident of the Greensboro Science Center (GSC), has...

Democrats' Confidence in U.S. Institutions Sinks to New Low

Democrats' Confidence in U.S. Institutions Sinks to New Low

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans' average confidence in major U.S. institutions is unchanged since last year, with a near-record-low 28% of U.S. adults expressing "a great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in nine institutions tracked consistently...

U.S. lawmakers move to stop China from stealing advanced AI chips with bipartisan Chip Security Act

U.S. lawmakers move to stop China from stealing advanced AI chips with bipartisan Chip Security Act

Washington D.C. [US], July 17 (ANI): Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have introduced the Chip Security Act, a bipartisan effort to block advanced U.S. artificial intelligence (AI) chips from ending up in the hands of adversaries like the...

'Only One Heatwave Away’: Scientists Warn Of Summer Soccer World Cup Tragedy

'Only One Heatwave Away’: Scientists Warn Of Summer Soccer World Cup Tragedy

GENEVA (AP) — Soccer had a fierce reckoning with heat at the recently concluded FIFA Club World Cup in the United States — a sweltering preview of what players and fans may face when the U.S. co-hosts the World Cup with Mexico and Canada next...

Purification Technologies Advancing Downstream Processing of Biopharmaceuticals

Purification Technologies Advancing Downstream Processing of Biopharmaceuticals

The production of novel biopharmaceuticals has grown exponentially since the approval of recombinant human insulin in 1982.1 This growth, coupled with the increasing complexity of biotherapeutics, has presented new challenges in downstream...

A Wisconsin scientist helped launch a telescope that will create the greatest cosmic movie of all time

A Wisconsin scientist helped launch a telescope that will create the greatest cosmic movie of all time

In April, Wisconsin’s Keith Bechtol was in the remote Andes mountains of Chile waiting for the world’s largest digital camera to turn on and take a photo of the night sky. “I was very focused to the task at hand,” he told WPR’s “Wisconsin Today.”...

Jewish faculty voice support for UC Berkeley chancellor facing antisemitism hearing in D.C.

Jewish faculty voice support for UC Berkeley chancellor facing antisemitism hearing in D.C.

Leading Jewish faculty are voicing support for UC Berkeley‘s chancellor ahead of his Tuesday appearance before an influential congressional committee probing allegations of campus antisemitism. Chancellor Rich Lyons will join leaders of the City...

UC Berkeley chancellor heads to D.C. for congressional grilling on campus antisemitism

UC Berkeley chancellor heads to D.C. for congressional grilling on campus antisemitism

UC Berkeley’s top leader on Tuesday will face an influential congressional committee that is aligned with President Trump’s political goal of reshaping higher education by punishing campuses he sees both as bastions of leftist ideologies and as...

New Study Finds Evidence of Hepatitis C Virus in Cells Lining Human Brain

New Study Finds Evidence of Hepatitis C Virus in Cells Lining Human Brain

Observational studies of psychiatric diseases such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression have long tied viral infections with behavioral symptoms in these disorders, but scientists have been unable to find direct evidence of...

States Hope Fired Federal Workers Will Flock to Fill Teacher Vacancies

States Hope Fired Federal Workers Will Flock to Fill Teacher Vacancies

When sweeping announcements were made earlier this year that a swath of federal workers were slated to lose their jobs in the nation’s capital, neighboring state and city governments — Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C. — began to make the...

USDA Faces Controversy Over Farm Bill Provision Blocking Oklahoma Land Transfer to Tribes

USDA Faces Controversy Over Farm Bill Provision Blocking Oklahoma Land Transfer to Tribes

The long-standing conflict over nearly 9,500 acres in Oklahoma is intensifying in Washington, D.C. Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) has introduced a provision in the farm bill to block the transfer of this land, which includes a USDA research facility...

Shri Ajay Kumar Shrivastava takes charge as Director (Engineering and Research & Development) at HAL

Shri Ajay Kumar Shrivastava takes charge as Director (Engineering and Research & Development) at HAL

Shri Ajay Kumar Shrivastava has assumed the charge of Director ( Engineering and Research & Development) of Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) with effect from 15th July, 2025. Currently, he is serving as Executive Director of the company. The term...

Artificial intelligence accurately classifies pancreatic cysts, reveals research

Artificial intelligence accurately classifies pancreatic cysts, reveals research

Artificial intelligence (AI) models such as ChatGPT are designed to rapidly process data. Using the AI ChatGPT-4 platform to extract and analyze specific data points from the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) scans of...

Amazing Smile Foundation, Adovor Family Donate To Sikor D.A. Basic School

The Amazing Smile Foundation (ASF), an educational Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) based at Aveyime-Battor in the North Tongu District of the Volta Region, in collaboration with the Adovor and Allied families of Aveyime-Battor, has constructed...

U.S. Managers Say Data Science Skills Needed Now, in Future

U.S. Managers Say Data Science Skills Needed Now, in Future

Eighty-five percent also wish direct reports had one or more additional math skills by Katherine Senseman WASHINGTON, D.C. — The demand for employees with data science skills will continue to grow, according to a recent survey of U.S. workplace...

Trump cuts nation’s top STEM teaching award. Winners say it will hurt innovation.

Trump cuts nation’s top STEM teaching award. Winners say it will hurt innovation.

Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to get essential news about NYC’s public schools delivered to your inbox. All 25 students in Sharon Collins’ Advanced Placement Calculus AB class focused intently on the problem she posted on...

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