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Stage giant Patrick Stewart, of ‘Star Trek’ and 'X-Men' fame, dies at 86
Stewart died Wednesday in Los Angeles
Health department confirms first flu death of season
The Indiana Department of Health is not releasing information about the patient due to privacy concerns.
What killed 500-plus penguins? How scientists solved the mystery
The penguins that perished lived on the Danger Islands in Antarctica. The prime suspect was avian flu. Researchers were surprised by what they found.
What killed 500-plus penguins? How scientists solved the mystery
The penguins that perished lived on the Danger Islands in Antarctica. The prime suspect was avian flu. Researchers were surprised by what they found.
Fall 2026 Credo Awards announced
Established in 2008, the Credo Award recognizes individuals who consistently demonstrate exceptional credo behavior by making those they serve their highest priority, having a sense of ownership, conducting themselves professionally, respecting privacy and confidentiality, communicating effectively, and exhibiting commitment to their colleagues. The Fall 2026 Credo Award winners are: Shannon Blaisdell, DNP, MSN, RN, Associate Nursing Officer, Inpatient Obstetrics and IV Team, Vanderbilt University Hospital Sara Hanai, MS, Director, Junior League Family Resource Center, Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt Kelly Harper, Research Program Manager, Neuro-Movement Disorders Division, Department of Neurology The Credo Award recognition is announced quarterly through the Vanderbilt Health Hub. A total of 12 winners will be recognized each year. Each winner is honored with an award video, a profile article in VUMC Voice following the award announcement, and recognition during the biannual Leadership Forum. View the Fall 2026 Credo Award videos. If you are a Vanderbilt Health employee, you can nominate a colleague, leader or team for a Credo Award, C. Wright Pinson Leader Award, or Vanderbilt Health Team Award. Visit the Awards and Nominations SharePoint site to fill out a nomination form. Employees demonstrate credo behaviors when: they make those they serve the highest priority; respect privacy and confidentiality; communicate effectively; conduct themselves professionally; have a sense of ownership; and are committed to their colleagues. Award nominations are accepted year-round. If a nomination is received after the cutoff for an award selection period, the nomination will be considered for the next period.
First flu season death confirmed by Indiana Department of Health
The first Hoosier has died during the 2026-2027 flu season. The season is expected to last until May.
Kim Kardashian undergoes surgery for esophagus ‘irregularities’
Kim Kardashian appears to have undergone a medical procedure after doctors discovered “irregularities” in her throat that needed to be removed. A preview for an upcoming episode of “The Kardashians”
Lancaster County a key target for Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Ken Krawchuk
Ken Krawchuk, the Libertarian candidate for Pennsylvania governor, is “laser focused” on Lancaster County this election cycle.
Why Miami Is a Destination for Latin America’s Political Exiles
The city’s Hispanic majority, news media reach and air links to Latin America have made it an ideal base for politicians escaping their home countries.
OPINION: Politicians need to stop blowing up my phone
Election season always brings a whole host of political advertisements. But this midterm, it feels a lot less like normal marketing and a lot more like harassment that we can’t opt out of.
A Successful Summer Transfer Window for Olympiacos: Journalist Comments
New manager Imanol Alguacil revitalises the squad as Portuguese talent Gustavo Sá flashes brilliance and inconsistency, highlighting a transformative period for Olympiacos' ambitious campaign.
Michael Che says ‘it’s really not fair’ to name the worst “SNL” host: ‘It’s not a natural process’
The comedian explained that the environment of the show is stressful for celebrities.
UFC abruptly cancels Nov. 7 main event
Well, this sucks. No. 5-ranked welterweight contender Sean Brady has withdrawn from his UFC Vegas 124 main event against No. 6-ranked Gabriel Bonfim due to injury, giving the promotion roughly one week to cook up a replacement or find a new headliner altogether. Brazilian journalist Laerte Viana first reported the change on Thursday. The current UFC […]
Colorado quarterback Julian Lewis taken to hospital after ‘medical emergency’
It has been a difficult season for Colorado football. They are 2-5 this season, as Colorado has been plagued by inconsistent quarterback play . Julian Lewis started the year as the starting quarterback, but has since been benched. Now, Lewis is going to be out of the lineup, per a statement his father , T. Carlton Lewis, released on Wednesday. […] The post Colorado quarterback Julian Lewis taken to hospital after ‘medical emergency’ appeared first on ClutchPoints.
Pumpkinville is recognized by state’s Historic Business Preservation Registry
GREAT VALLEY — State Senator George Borrello visited Pumpkinville Tuesday to present owners Dan and Diane Pawlowski with a certificate recognizing the popular fall destination’s inclusi…
Giants Linked to Trade for Familiar Player Before NFL Deadline
The New York Giants have been connected to a move for a familiar face before the NFL trade deadline.
Kim Kardashian Gives Health Update After Scare Brings Back Memories of Late Father
Kim Kardashian had some of her father’s sombre memories return. Following her recent health scare, the American media personality could not help but remember how her father dealt with a similar situat...
The Longest Eclipse Left This Century Now Has Its Own Science Tour in Spain
New Scientist Discovery Tours has five new trips for 2027, from fossil digs in the Australian outback to jaguar tracking in Brazil.
Springfield-Greene County Health Department reports suspected avian flu cases in southeast Greene County waterfowl
The Springfield-Greene County Health Department is issuing notice of suspected cases of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in waterfowl in and around southeast Greene County.
Are the EU and Canada moving closer?
Many Canadians are rethinking their relationship with the US amid the trade war and political uncertainty. They are thinking twice about where products they buy come from. Should Canada look more to Europe?
Queen's Domain is a brilliant King's Field-alike RPG that forces you to walk so you can learn to fly
Out this week on PC, Queen's Blade is a beautiful and accomplished King's Field-inspired RPG that combines stately combat with an upgradeable flying sword.
Julian Lewis health updates: Latest news on Colorado QB after experiencing medical emergency
The sophomore was hospitalized on Wednesday.
Guardians Fans Won't Be Happy New 2027 MLB Prediction
The Cleveland Guardians reached the ALCS this past season.
Make no bones about it, the giant skeleton has become an Ame...
Home Depot’s 12-foot Skelly skeleton, introduced in 2020, has become a Halloween lawn fixture, selling out annually as owners dress it for every season.
Colorado QB Julian Lewis recovering after medical emergency, father says
Colorado QB Julian Lewis is recovering after a medical emergency at the team's athletic facility led to him being taken to the hospital.
Detroit Lions mailbag: How does one beat the Vikings defense?
Breaking down Brian Flores’ Vikings defense and how the Detroit Lions can stop them.
Giants Should Pursue Trade for Guardians Outfielder Kwan
Steven Kwan offers the elite contact, speed, and Gold Glove defense that the San Francisco Giants desperately need to revitalize a lineup starving for dynamic talent.
Colts sign veteran offensive lineman, release experienced linebacker
The Indianapolis Colts made a few roster moves ahead of the team's Week 8 matchup in Jacksonville.
Texas Junior Academy of Science Competition Results
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Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, historic Mexican politician and former presidential candidate, dies at 92
An undisputed leader of the Mexican left, Cárdenas was the son of one of the country’s most popular presidents — Gen. Lázaro Cárdenas. He was respected by allies and critics alike.
Is Matthew Golden Playing Tonight? NFL Insider Reveals Plans
The Green Bay Packers‘ second-year breakout wide receiver is listed as questionable with a shoulder and a foot injury for the team’s Week 8 game against the Carolina Panthers. However, NFL insider Ian Rapoport was told that Golden is trending towards playing less than 12 hours before kickoff. “I am told he is trending towards […] The post Is Matthew Golden Playing Tonight? NFL Insider Reveals Plans appeared first on HEAVY.
House bill aimed at protecting swine health
Legislation would formally establish US SHIP at USDA for disease monitoring and herd health certification.
Kim Kardashian gets ‘irregularities’ removed from esophagus, says health scare reminds her of dad’s death
“I just don’t really want to go there.”
NEK, North Country Winter Fun Off The Slopes
NORTHEAST KINGDOM, VT/NORTH COUNTRY, NH — Frost on the windows, heat turned on, wood piles stacked, and winter coats ready to roll … winter is right around the corner in
Job-based health plan costs rise, with little relief in sight
Job-based health insurance costs rose in 2026, putting more pressure on workers and employers as analysts project further premium increases in 2027.
Small Business Administration loan program available to WV residents affected by August flood
West Virginians affected by severe storms and flooding in August still have time to apply for federal assistance through the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Office of Disaster Recovery.
Small Business Administration loan program available to WV residents affected by August flood
West Virginians affected by severe storms and flooding in August still have time to apply for federal assistance through the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Office of Disaster Recovery.
Juventus reiterate faith in Luciano Spalletti but squad in retreat
Serie A side Juventus fell to a rather dull 2-0 defeat to Genoa on Wednesday and this is naturally going to pile the pressure further onto Luciano Spalletti. Today, there have been doubts about the It...
Canadian Valley Tech students earn fair ribbons, business pitch prize
Canadian Valley Technology Center students won state fair photography honors and a $500 prize for a car dealership app.
University of Indianapolis offers free vaccinations to help keep Central Indiana healthy
The University of Indianapolis is proud to partner with the Indiana Immunization Coalition and the Central Indiana Area Health Care Education Center to offer a free vaccination clinic at the Schwitzer Student Center on Tuesday, Nov. 3 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The clinic is open to all members of the public and will
Proclamation designates November 3, 2026 as Indiana One Health Day
As a result of an effort spearheaded by the National Association of Federal Veterinarians, at least a dozen states, including Indiana, are recognizing November 3 as One Health Day. Governor Mike Braun issued a proclamation to that effect for Indiana, contributing to a growing national movement to a
Serbia’s Students Changed How Serbians Think About Politics
The election win for Serbia’s Student List reflects a deep desire for more democratic ways of doing politics. The test now is to see how the different forces within the movement can collaborate in changing the country’s institutions.
Serbia’s Students Changed How Serbians Think About Politics
The election win for Serbia’s Student List reflects a deep desire for more democratic ways of doing politics. The test now is to see how the different forces within the movement can collaborate in cha...
PODCAST: Keeping Native capital flowing through political change
Native CDFIs finance homes, support small businesses and create jobs. Keeping capital flowing into their communities also requires a voice in the policy decisions that shape federal funding and bank investment. In a new episode of Difference Makers 3.0, Native CDFI Network CEO Pete Upton and policy consultant Ian Record join host Brian Edwards to […]
PODCAST: Keeping Native capital flowing through political change
Native CDFIs finance homes, support small businesses and create jobs. Keeping capital flowing into their communities also requires a voice in the policy decisions that shape federal funding and bank investment. In a new episode of Difference Makers 3.0, Native CDFI Network CEO Pete Upton and policy consultant Ian Record join host Brian Edwards to […]
Clio Entertainment Awards to Honor Jamie Lee Curtis at 2026 Ceremony
Comedian Cat Cohen will host the Nov. 19 ceremony, which celebrates groundbreaking promotional work in the entertainment industry.
Cynthia Erivo blasts scrutiny over close friendship with ‘Wicked’ costar Ariana Grande
Cynthia Erivo slammed intense scrutiny over her close friendship with ‘Wicked’ costar Ariana Grande: ‘There were many people who had become psychologists from their couches.’
Bally’s Corporation Comments on The Star Entertainment Group AUSTRAC Decision and Continued Turnaround
PROVIDENCE, R.I., October 29, 2026--Bally’s Corporation (NYSE: BALY) today commented on the Federal Court of Australia’s decision in the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre ("AUSTRAC") proceedings against subsidiaries of The Star Entertainment Group Limited ("The Star") related to historical violations of the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006.
College football Week 9 players to watch: Can Miami's Javian Mallory continue to find the end zone against North Carolina?
Jim Benson Receives Order of the Palmetto
James “Jim” Benson was awarded the Order of the Palmetto, South Carolina’s highest civilian honor, on Oct. 27, 2026, in recognition of his lifetime of service, leadership, and contributions to the state. In 1956, Benson opened his first used car...
Business builder Joe Haddad to headline Ashland University ethics lecture
Joe Haddad, a business leader whose career blends entrepreneurship, leadership development and faith-based service, will discuss the role of Christian ethics in building thriving organizations during Ashland University's Gordon E. Heffern Lecture on Christian Ethics in Business on Nov. 16.
Physicians and health systems must align on AI to avoid repeating EHR mistakes
Early wins with ambient AI scribes, shared control over clinical decision support tools and incremental pilots can build the trust needed for a decades-long transformation.
Dolphins claim former Seahawks 3rd round pick off waivers
Christian Haynes comes to Miami with Kadyn Proctor in concussion protocol.
American College of Education Launches a Doctor of Business Administration for Under $22,000
The fully online DBA from ACE started its first cohort in October, with a second to follow in November.INDIANAPOLIS, IN / ACCESS Newswire / October 29, 2026 / (ACE) recently expanded its academic offerings by launching an online Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) degree program.
ArkLaTex Made: State Fair of Louisiana brings vendors, livestock, rodeo, and live entertainment to Shreveport
SHREVEPORT, La. — Visitors stepping onto the fairgrounds for the State Fair of Louisiana when it officially opens on Thursday will find much more than carnival rides and fair food.
Alliance Entertainment to Host First Quarter Fiscal Year 2027 Results Conference Call on November 12 at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time
PLANTATION, Fla., Oct. 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Alliance Entertainment Holding Corporation (Nasdaq: AENT), a
Political information increasingly comes from pop culture, outside of partisan silos but where male creators – and sometimes misogyny
Younger Americans’ pop culture favorites have multipartisan appeal, but male creators dominate the list of top influencers, podcasters and comedians.
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, historic Mexican politician and former presidential candidate, dies at 92
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, a three-time presidential candidate and one of Mexico's most important modern political voices, died Wednesday at 92, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said.
The Israel debate reshaping Jewish American politics
“There are plenty of people who believe, as I do, that Israel has a right to protect itself,” says David to Lauren, both pictured below, over the dinner table. Subscribe “How does starving children protect Israel?” she replies. “I don’t think Israel is intentionally starving children.” “It’s a little bit absurd to be sitting here talking about all of these very specific things,” Lauren says, “as opposed to looking at the totality of him as a candidate, and the 90% of things that you agree with him on.” This is a snapshot from a conversation between a Jewish father and daughter in Michigan ahead of the crucial Senate race. Lauren supports the Democratic candidate, Abdul El-Sayed. Her father is undecided. That is mainly because of El-Sayed’s stance on Israel, one that mirrors a growing wing of the party that has become critical of the US-Israel relationship following the war in Gaza. You’re reading FourSight, a newsletter from Channel 4 News’ expert journalists explaining the complexities of the biggest global stories Could that alienate Jewish American voters who have a strong connection to Israel - and the majority of whom have voted Democratic? A shifting stance on Israel “An ally that takes your money to push you into wars you shouldn’t be fighting is not an ally,” El-Sayed recently told ABC News, referring to the Iran war and how some Americans believe that Israel pushed President Trump into the conflict. Foreign policy has become an economic issue that’s hitting Americans’ pockets, with the soaring cost of petrol and diesel. El-Sayed, pictured below, has opposed military aid for Israel and accused the nation of genocide in Gaza. That led to the pro-Israel lobby group, AIPAC, funding his opponent, Hayley Stevens, to the tune of $30m during the Democratic primary here. “I frequently criticise AIPAC because I think the way that they are pouring dollars into defeating Abdul and others around the country… is really corrosive to American democracy,” Brad Lander says at a canvassing event in Detroit. Lander, a Jewish Democratic congressional candidate in New York, is an ally of Mayor Zohran Mamdani and has come to campaign for El-Sayed. “Democrats and Americans don’t want to keep paying for Netanyahu’s wars,” he says. “They want a reset in the US relationship with Israel.” The 2026 election has clearly been a bruising one for AIPAC; the Wall Street Journal reported that, in an unpublished letter, the group described the cycle as one of the “most challenging environments in recent memory”. Share And significantly, after the midterms, the group will stop direct contributions to candidates through one of its political action committees. Voters’ concerns We followed a group of Jewish canvassers around one suburb in Detroit. They think that among the 130,000 Jewish voters in Michigan, between 20 and 30,000 are undecided. In a swing state where El-Sayed beat his primary rival by just 13,000, that could prove pivotal. We meet one voter, Jen Friedman, pictured below, who has a “Democrats for Rogers” sign, referring to the Republican candidate. The issue of Israel is very important to her because “having a safe haven is crucial”, she tells me. “What I see is one candidate, Mike Rogers, who is associating himself with people who are very proudly American,” says Jen. “Abdul, on the other hand, is associating with people who say they are anti-American.” Friedman raises two issues. Firstly, Hasan Piker, a left-wing streamer who has campaigned alongside El-Sayed and has been criticised for his comments on the US and Israel. [ ](https://channel4news.substack.com/p/who-is-hasan-piker-the-socialist) [ Why Hasan Piker thinks the US needs a socialist Trump ](https://channel4news.substack.com/p/who-is-hasan-piker-the-socialist) Anushka Asthana · Aug 19 [ Read full story ](https://channel4news.substack.com/p/who-is-hasan-piker-the-socialist) The other concern regards an attack on a Michigan synagogue back in March. The FBI said the man was inspired by Hezbollah and had lost relatives in an Israeli airstrike on Lebanon. El-Sayed condemned the antisemitic attack, but also said “hurt people hurt people”. That upset many here, with El-Sayed apologising numerous times for his choice of language. Jews for Abdul As we follow the canvassers, there are still plenty of lawn signs supporting El-Sayed. Elissa Driker, pictured below, runs out of her house wearing a “Jews for Abdul” t-shirt. “I feel like the values that Abdul has align with how I live my Judaism,” she tells me. She says “Abdul is not Hasan Piker, so I don’t conflate them”. I ask why Piker keeps coming up. “It gets weaponised. I don’t know if you watched the debate the other night, but talk about… weaponising fear and weaponising anxiety and all that Islamophobic dog-whistling that was coming towards Abdul.” I also talk to Elissa about how Americans more broadly appear to be questioning the US-Israel relationship and whether American Jews were ready to do that too. “A lot of American Jews are. My experience is absolutely the tide is turning.” For the first time, Gallup found this year that Americans now sympathise more with the Palestinians than the Israelis. In another poll of Jewish American voters, 65% said they were pro-Israel but also critical of Israeli government policies, 52% support cutting or eliminating aid to Israel. Father and daughter Back at the dinner table, I bring up those polls with David Fink. Why does he think Americans sympathise less with Israelis? [ ](https://channel4news.substack.com/p/how-support-for-israel-in-us-is-declining) [ How support for Israel in US is declining ](https://channel4news.substack.com/p/how-support-for-israel-in-us-is-declining) Kiran Moodley · May 4 [ Read full story ](https://channel4news.substack.com/p/how-support-for-israel-in-us-is-declining) “Because the news media and the extremes of both parties are so willing to tell what I think is a false narrative.” Lauren chimes in: “Do you really think the actions of Israel have nothing to do with the shift in the sympathies?” “I think that’s very relevant,” he replies. “I just don’t think that people really have a full understanding.” Lauren again: “It sounds like you’re saying that the shift is due to how the atrocities are being described, as opposed to what the actual atrocities are.” “There have been some things that shouldn’t have happened,” David says. “I think the polling is being driven by politicians who are taking advantage of this issue.” Lauren then asks, “I’m curious what your response would be if my children were killed in an Israeli airstrike and someone said there have been some things that shouldn’t have happened?” A long pause from her father. “Any reference to my grandchildren has a very deep emotional impact on me. Well done,” he says. “I have an empathy for any civilian in war and I don’t mean to belittle those losses. The loss of any one life is a horrible thing. But it doesn’t make it a war crime and it doesn’t make it genocide.” Lauren and David cannot agree but tell me how proud they are of one another for sticking to their convictions and for agreeing to let me sit in on their conversation. I cannot thank them enough for their time, and hope their honesty informs and educates many people during such a fraught election. Abdul El-Sayed: The candidate testing the US - Israel relationship Thanks for reading our latest FourSight newsletter. Subscribe to receive free weekly newsletters from Channel 4 News. Subscribe Share Channel 4 News Leave a comment
A 700,000-year-old elephant tooth reveals a lost world where early humans lived
A remarkably preserved elephant tooth dating back nearly 700,000 years has revealed a surprisingly lush prehistoric world where giant elephants and early humans lived side by side. Discovered in northern Israel alongside ancient stone tools, the tooth belonged to a straight-tusked elephant, one of the largest land mammals of the Ice Age.
Einstein's equations may explain the universe without dark energy
Mathematicians have uncovered what they argue is a fundamental flaw in the standard model of the universe, potentially challenging the need for dark energy. Their calculations suggest that the mathematical framework used to describe cosmic expansion is inherently unstable and that the universe could accelerate naturally under Einstein's original theory of gravity. The findings also raise surprising questions about whether our location in the universe is as ordinary as scientists have long assumed.
Missouri's Most Controversial Politician? A Candid Convo With Sec. Of State Denny Hoskins
Take On The Lake, Ep. 52
Sabyasachi Sen honored for outstanding contributions to glass science
Indian American UC Davis professor receives 2026 George W. Morey Award from the American Ceramic Society.
Kim Kardashian reveals 'irregularities' on esophagus that need to be 'cut out'
Kim Kardashian provides a health update in the new episode of "The Kardashians." She was diagnosed with esophagitis, which her dad died from in 2003.
Angel Studios bans nudity, sex scenes, profanity in sweeping new 'Angel Promise'
Angel Studios, the faith-friendly entertainment company behind box office successes such as Sound of Freedom and The King of Kings, is establishing permanent content standards designed to protect its
Business Brief: Fisackerly among 2026 Leading Business Women in Mississippi
Golden Triangle Development LINK CEO Meryl Fisackerly has been named one of 25 Leading Business Women for 2026 by the Mississippi Business Journal.
From New York to Calabash to Surfside Beach: Bagel Dock Cafe set to open on South Strand
For years, Brian Bonsignore has helped run the ever-famous Bagel Dock Cafe in Calabash, co-owning the bagel shop that has developed somewhat of a cult following around the coastal North Carolina town.
Stop Human Trafficking Coalition hosts third annual conference
“If you're witnessing it, you need to make that 911 call," Kauffman, the executive director for the coalition, said.
Preview: Bruins continue their road trip in St. Louis
Home of the giant arch. But just one arch, two arches means McDonald’s.
4 Indian-Origin Science Communicators Win Schmidt Awards 2026
4 Indian-origin science communicators win Schmidt Awards 2026 in US. Learn about Aatish Bhatia, Harini Bhat, Anand Varma & Rupsa Chakraborty.
How Katie Lee channeled a chaotic coming of age into a business empire
Katie Lee is a success, by any metric. She has four bustling Katie’s restaurants to her name in St. Louis and a line of packaged goods—jarred sauces and pasta bakes and frozen pizzas—selling at retailers across the U.S. She also boasts 500 employees and a brand synonymous with Italian chic. Keep up with local business […]
Iraqi court hands down prison terms to 2 politicians and an oil official in graft case
BAGHDAD (AP) — An Iraqi court sentenced two prominent politicians and the head of a state-run enterprise responsible for distributing oil products to prison sentences in a corruption case, officials announced Thursday.
Kim Kardashian’s Political Future Depends on Two Big Priorities
Kim Kardashian has opened up about her political ambitions, suggesting that a move into politics may still be a long way off. According to a report, the reality TV star wants to pass the bar exam and ...
Wisconsin price checks cited in federal lawsuit against Dollar General
No store in the Madison area is specifically mentioned in the lawsuit, which accuses the retail giant of systemic pricing inaccuracies and overcharges.
A golden age of science is coming
It’s almost hard to remember, but just a few years ago, a lot of very smart people thought that science was in terminal decline. Respected researchers were writing papers with titles like “Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?”, “Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time”, and “Slowed canonical progress in large fields of science”. In 1996, science writer John Horgan even published a book called The End Of Science: Facing The Limits Of Knowledge In The Twilight Of The Scientific Age. The fundamental idea was that the Universe only has so many insights to discover, and that we’ve picked the low-hanging fruit. It was the idea that Joseph-Louis Lagrange expressed when he said that “we cannot find more than once a system of the world to establish.” As the big ideas and the simple ideas get mined out, we’re forced to throw ever more brains at the mysteries of nature just to keep scientific progress going at a fraction of its old pace: It looked like science was hitting a wall. Then along came AI. It’s far too early to tell how much AI will eventually speed up the growth of total factor productivity. But already we can see signs of a speedup in science. Anthropic Founder Jack Clark assembled some of the hopeful data points in a recent lecture: [ Dror Poleg@drorpoleg "If you pick different parts of science, you see the same pattern show up: Progress is accelerating, and it has started to accelerate in the last two years." Jack Clark @jackclarkSF I’m speaking at the IMF in an hour about the singularity and why I believe it has begun and the choices we'll need to make. Watch live here: https://t.co/Hj9HzcXx5h 6:08 PM · Oct 18, 2026 · 21.2K Views 2 Replies · 10 Reposts · 123 Likes ](https://x.com/drorpoleg/status/2111882070376980529) Anthropic is accelerating its investment into drug discovery, and is already announcing some impressive preliminary results: [ BioTender@Junioryu136689 BREAKING: Anthropic unveils early results from six Claude-powered drug development collaborations. • 70% shorter CAR-T signaling domain • ~35,000 antibody designs • >10× tighter antibody binding • 89% less batch-record review time Still largely preclinical. Anthropic @AnthropicAI Over the past few months, Anthropic scientists have engaged in deep research partnerships with six organizations developing new medicines. We've also begun drug discovery efforts of our own. In doing so, we’ve learned much more about how Claude can support the many stages of 9:43 PM · Oct 27, 2026 · 11.2K Views 3 Replies · 24 Reposts · 205 Likes ](https://x.com/Junioryu136689/status/2115197821150495150) Claude also appears to be enabling rapid progress toward a treatment for food allergies. OpenAI, meanwhile, announced a possible breakthrough treatment for neurodegenerative disease. Meanwhile, Google Cloud Chief Scientist Pushmeet Kohli has a list of recent scientific advances that have been enabled by its new Gemini model, including breakthroughs in nuclear fusion reactor design, rare disease research, and quantum computing: [ Pushmeet Kohli@pushmeet Gemini 4 Argon is a step change in model performance. In recent weeks, it has had a transformative impact on the Science projects in our team at @GoogleDeepMind and our external collaborators, and helped make a number of remarkable advances across scientific disciplines. 🧵👇 4:47 PM · Oct 13, 2026 · 36.5K Views 8 Replies · 41 Reposts · 497 Likes ](https://x.com/pushmeet/status/2110049807385702623) But as cool as these stories sound, they’re just very minor, preliminary efforts. There are a number of reasons to think that AI is going to propel us into a golden age of scientific discovery. That age might not last forever — AI might still run into diminishing returns eventually. But the next few decades are probably going to be an absolutely amazing time for human science. The number of “effective researchers” is no longer limited The most important input into science is scientists themselves. Until this year, that meant human brains — talented, highly trained human brains. The number of trained human brains could be increased by sending more people to grad school, but only to a point — the smartest people tend to be sent into the hardest research fields first, and if you 10x the number of researchers, the average quality will go down. This constraint was already starting to bite, as Ekerdt and Wu argued in 2024: We argue that a substantial portion of the downward historical trend in U.S. research productivity is a composition effect resulting from self-selection in researcher ability and the dramatic expansion of the research sector…[W]e find that this composition effect has lowered average researcher ability by between 37% and 53%[.] And of course, low fertility was making the problem worse, because fewer children meant fewer people who were able to become future scientists. AI just blows up this constraint completely. If an AI agent can function as an autonomous researcher, there’s no constraint on the number of researchers in the world — you can just build more of them, by building more computer chips and data centers that enable the running of more AI agents. Whether or not massive hordes of agents can collaborate to solve individual problems much faster, increasing the number of agents allows them to tackle many different research questions in parallel. What’s more, these AI “researchers” can be trained incredibly quickly compared to human beings. A human scientist takes decades to train, and more years to reach the frontier of their research field by diligent reading and conversation. This is the “burden of knowledge”, and it’s commonly believed to be one reason ideas have been getting harder to find — by the time human scientists can get up to speed, they’re often so old that their ideas are no longer novel. AI just annihilates this constraint — it can assimilate the entire literature and reach the frontier of research extremely quickly, and it can also tell human scientists where the frontier lies without forcing them to discover that for themselves. It can also pivot to new research directions more easily than humans can. And there’s also a self-reinforcing economic cycle here. Because scientific advances enable higher GDP, they enable more resources to be invested into the creation of yet more electronic “scientists”. Now that doesn’t mean the amount of scientific research goes to infinity — there may still be some essential bottleneck task that human researchers are still needed to perform. There are some indications that AI’s progress on open-ended conceptual research tasks is slower than in other dimensions, and it may be that humans are still needed to provide some of this long-term conceptual thinking. I’d bet against this being true for much longer, but it might be true for a long time. Even in this most “pessimistic” case, though, the amount of effective capital that scientists can use to leverage their work just went up by a lot. AI eliminates the theory bottleneck Science proceeds by an iterative process of theory and experiment. The theory part of that cycle is typically short, but non-trivial — it took a couple of years after the blackbody radiation spectrum was observed for Max Planck to come up with the quantum hypothesis to explain it, and decades longer before quantum theory as we now know it was created. It took about a year for Watson and Crick to figure out the shape of DNA after the requisite data was gathered. AI will basically eliminate the theory bottleneck entirely — or at least shorten the turnaround time between experiment and theory by an order of magnitude. AI is an absolute beast at math. Recently, an OpenAI model solved some of the most important open problems in computer science, math, and theoretical physics, and no one even batted an eyebrow because that sort of triumph is becoming increasingly commonplace. One of those solutions was a proof that the Standard Model of Particle Physics could be mathematically well-defined — a problem that human theorists had so far been unable to tackle. Not all research relies equally on theory, but understanding novel experimental results almost always involves some important component of either mathematical or spatial reasoning. That part of the task has now been made much, much faster. And on top of that, science is now open to a greater number of humans who aren’t naturally good at theorizing. AI can read the whole literature Much of the work of human scientists involves reading and understanding endless amounts of papers and going to endless conferences and seminars. The purpose of that work is to understand the existing scientific literature. Understanding the literature allows scientists to do the following things: Come up with new ideas for hypotheses to test Avoid doing research that someone else has already done Synthesize approaches from different areas or fields AI can reduce this effort to almost zero. Consider this excerpt from OpenAI’s blog post about their new research into neurodegenerative disease: The team divided the analysis among thousands of AI agents powered by GPT‑Rosalind, an approach we call distributed biological reasoning. The agents examined a whole-brain CRISPR atlas…a dataset showing how gene disruptions affect different types of cells across the mouse brain. Each agent investigated a gene disruption, analyzed cellular responses, searched scientific literature, and proposed explanations for the results. Their reports were combined into a reasoning atlas linking genes, cellular effects, relevant publications, and possible biological mechanisms. The research team estimated that comparable human analysis and literature review, conducted one perturbation at a time, would take months to a year. The agents reproduced findings from human analyses while uncovering additional leads. Their assessments of novelty and scientific value also aligned with judgments from blinded human experts. These findings help prioritize further experiments needed to test the proposed biological mechanisms. Some of these insights point to new leads for understanding brain disease. [emphasis mine] This is one case in which parallel work by a large number of agents really does make a huge difference: [ Haider.@haider1 this is actually insane openai deployed thousands of GPT-Rosalind agents to analyze millions of mouse brain cells in 32 minutes, work that could take human researchers months to a year also the agents uncovered new leads for brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's OpenAI @OpenAI GPT-Rosalind surfaced a new lead for drug discovery: could restoring cholesterol transport protect neurons from degeneration? DCTN1 is a gene linked to Perry syndrome, a rare neurodegenerative disorder. In mouse-brain data, disrupting it increased expression of genes involved in 2:41 PM · Oct 21, 2026 · 51.5K Views 26 Replies · 95 Reposts · 1.26K Likes ](https://x.com/haider1/status/2112917197903540516) Not only does instantaneous literature review vastly speed up the research process, but it allows AI to make novel conceptual leaps from combining approaches from wildly different fields of research. AI regularly does this in math research, combining results, approaches, and theorems from far-flung places that no human mathematician would have thought to combine. It can do it in science, too. Much of scientific innovation, historically, has been “recombinant” innovation — scientists applying insights from one field to another. With AI, essentially all research is now cross-disciplinary — AI can read not just the literature on a particular subject, but the literature on a million other subjects that might have produced useful techniques or insights for the problem at hand. Superscience So far, all of the factors I’ve listed are ways that AI can speed up science as it’s already done. I’ve basically described how AI can send gigantic hordes of superhumanly fast, superhumanly well-read, superhumanly mathematically gifted researchers to re-accelerate scientific discovery. But it’s also possible that AI will enable types of discovery — and ways of understanding the natural world — that no network of humans, no matter how large or how brilliant it was or how long it had to work, would ever be able to discover. In a post back in July, I wrote about how that might work: What if there are lots of…aspects of the Universe that [are] too complex to understand in terms of simple laws, but not so complex that they just dissolve into unknowable chaos? It’s possible that we can reliably control these complex phenomena with AI, even if we never reduce them to the kind of principles that we can teach a grad student in a textbook… Another way of saying this is that there may be laws of the universe that humans can’t understand but AI can. I call these “cloud laws” — causal regularities that can be exploited by technology, but which are too diffuse and complex for an individual human being to either intuit or communicate… Perhaps social sciences like economics, sociology, and political science obey similarly complex regularities, and AI can help us find them. Perhaps there are physical processes — plasma, or topological materials, or aerial turbulence, etc. — that obey cloud laws instead of chaos?… [H]uman collaboration is bottlenecked — it’s limited by our ability to intuit patterns at an individual level, and to communicate these patterns from one individual to another. AI, being a computer, just doesn’t have this sort of limitation; it can work with vast, diffuse patterns without having to break them into pieces or simplify them in order to compress them into the tiny pipelines of person-to-person explanation… If much of the Universe turns out to be ruled by cloud laws, we could be on the precipice of a scientific renaissance. In order to discover cloud laws, AI will need huge amounts of data about the natural world. AI figured out human speech by assimilating essentially all of the text humans have ever written. If it’s going to figure out hidden patterns in biology, neuroscience, materials science, etc., it’s going to need similarly massive amounts of data from physical instruments. That data will be far, far more than humans — individually or collectively — would be able to parse, label, characterize, or model. But AI was built to do this. If scientists simply build huge arrays of sensors to measure complex phenomena like the brain, the cell, the economy, etc., they may be able to feed this flood of data to AI directly and bypass human cognitive intermediation entirely. AI would then learn about the world directly, and it might learn things that humans never could. This “superscience”, if you want to call it that, would actually go beyond the kind of science humans have done heretofore. Many of the technologies it yielded would be beyond human comprehension — indistinguishable from magic. But to the AIs, they would make perfect scientific sense. In any case, it seems clear that the scientific slowdown that threatened human progress will now be delayed — at least for a while. Unless humans have somehow found most of the actual exploitable regularities in our Universe, we’re about to enter a new golden age of science. Subscribe Share
2026-27 High School Confidential: On the road again
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Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, historic Mexican politician and former presidential candidate, dies at 92
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Global Health & WASH
The US National Institutes of Health reopened its center and program-project machinery in force. NIGMS is funding Collaborative Program Grants for interdisciplinary teams, NIAID opened both its Immune Tolerance Network and a next-generation R&D call, the NCI runs its Carcinogen Hazard Assessment Monographs program, the National Library of Medicine is funding institutional training in biomedical AI and data science, and NIH reopened its Centers for AIDS Research. The tell: these pay for standing centers and multi-year consortia at institutions with an existing funded research base, not one-off projects, so the fit is an established US research institution, not a single investigator. Disease-specific foundations are again funding the researcher, not just the research. The Parkinson’s Foundation opened its Paul Oreffice Innovations in Care Award and the National Ataxia Foundation its Research Seed Money Grant. The tell, the same one we flagged last cycle, is a named early-career or seed award that builds a pipeline of scientists committed to one condition, so what wins is a researcher willing to specialize. The post-USAID global-health money is routing through a State Department program statement and multilateral innovation funds. The US Department of State’s Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy opened its Advancing Global Health Annual Program Statement, Grand Challenges Canada opened Nexa Lighthouse for climate and health innovation in Asia and the Pacific at USD $250,000 to $2,000,000, and CEPI opened a rolling call on vaccine-manufacturing analytics. The tell: the largest health money this cycle sits in a standing program statement and in staged innovation vehicles, not in a single bilateral grant. Total Estimated Funding Pool: ~$35.4M across discrete grants. (Separately, large national-formula envelopes not counted in this total: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy (GHSD).) This post is for paid subscribers. This helps support the time and effort it takes to curate and organize these opportunities. Subscribe To keep this accessible to everyone who needs it, we’re happy to offer pay what you can rates. You can find more details here. New opportunities: Paul Oreffice Innovations in Care Award, Parkinson’s Foundation. *New!* *Closing soon!* The Parkinson’s Foundation created the Paul Oreffice Innovations in Care Award to fund clinicians rethinking how people with Parkinson’s disease receive care. The Foundation is using pilot funding to move promising ideas into testable projects, backing work across four lanes: strengthening community clinician capability, redesigning care models, building patient-centered technologies, and defining the minimum clinical datasets that make better standards possible. It wants hypothesis-driven, clinically grounded projects that can generate evidence strong enough to attract further funding. By opening the door to clinicians at every career stage and strongly preferring projects that involve people with Parkinson’s in their design, the Foundation signals that it values practical, patient-shaped innovation over prestige. The strongest fits are US-licensed clinicians with a focus on Parkinson’s and an institutional home for applied care research. Geographies: united states. Who can apply: Clinicians of all career stages, from fellows to established faculty, who are licensed to care for patients in the United States and have a significant focus on Parkinson’s disease. Physicians must have completed a neurology residency (or justify how their training pathway benefits people with PD); allied health professionals must hold an advanced degree, typically a PhD. Fellows, those in mentored positions, and those within two years of starting an independent position require a mentor and a mentor support letter. The sponsoring institution’s grants office is the authorized recipient and funds are disbursed to the institution. Funding amount: Maximum of $200,000 over two years; up to three awards. Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Health; Innovation; Science & Technology. Deadline: November 1, 2026. Learn more and apply here. Design and Deliver the Next EIT Health Bootcamps, EIT Health. *New!* *Closing soon!* EIT Health is opening its call for consortia to design and deliver the next generation of its health start-up bootcamps, funding the curriculum, masterclasses, mentoring, and investor engagement that turn early health ventures into fundable companies. The organization is using these learning paths to strengthen Europe’s health innovation pipeline across digital health evidence, deep tech and AI commercialization, cross-border investment, and patient access. What EIT Health wants to back is not a single course but durable delivery capacity built by partners who span industry, education, and research. Requiring multi-country consortia and a revenue-sharing stake in the programs signals that EIT Health expects these bootcamps to outlast the grant. The strongest fits are established training providers, universities, and industry partners with proven reach into health entrepreneurs. Geographies: Europe. Who can apply: Consortia only (individuals cannot apply), comprising a minimum of two and a maximum of five independent legal entities. Partners must cover at least two sides of the Knowledge Triangle (industry, education, research), including at least one industry organisation, and at least two entities must be legally established in different Horizon Europe countries. Funding amount: Foundational Learning Path: up to EUR €112,000; Thematic Learning Paths: up to EUR €124,500 per path (up to four thematic projects); up to EUR €610,000 total EIT Health funding available under the call. Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Health; Innovation; Science & Technology; Economic Development & Livelihoods. Deadline: November 2, 2026. Learn more and apply here. Technology Transfer Offices & Entrepreneurship Support Call (Beyond the Lab: From Research to Venture), EIT Health. *New!* *Closing soon!* EIT Health is opening its Technology Transfer Offices and Entrepreneurship Support Call to fund consortia that will deliver the Beyond the Lab: From Research to Venture program for healthcare researchers. EIT Health is using the grant to build local capacity for turning laboratory science into incorporated start-ups, paying experienced technology transfer offices and entrepreneurship support providers to run masterclasses, structured mentoring, and a closing Pitch Day across two cohorts. It wants to back organizations that can walk researchers from discovery to company formation, not just teach theory. Requiring two transfer offices plus one venture-building provider signals that EIT Health values proven commercialization experience alongside academic reach. The strongest fits are European research-commercialization teams with a track record of moving health innovations toward investable ventures. Geographies: Europe. Who can apply: A consortium of two Technology Transfer Offices (representing higher education institutions or research organisations) and one Entrepreneurship Support Provider with demonstrated experience in venture building and start-up support. Applicants may apply for more than one learning path where they can demonstrate the required expertise and capacity for each. Funding amount: Up to EUR €77,000 in 2027 and up to EUR €77,000 in 2028 (up to EUR €154,000 total per consortium over two years). Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Health; Innovation; Science & Technology; Economic Development & Livelihoods. Deadline: November 2, 2026. Learn more and apply here. EIT Health RIS Country Representatives Call (2027-2028), EIT Health. *New!* *Closing soon!* EIT Health is seeking organizations to serve as Country Representatives across eleven Regional Innovation Scheme countries in central and eastern Europe for the 2027 to 2028 period. The money funds a national anchor in each country, an organization that maps the local health innovation ecosystem, connects startups and researchers to EIT Health programs, and builds the stakeholder relationships that let health ventures grow. EIT Health is backing local capacity rather than individual projects, which is why it accepts both single organizations and national consortia that span education, research, and industry. The requirement for co-financing signals that it wants representatives already embedded in their national systems. The strongest fits are established ecosystem builders with deep ties to health innovation stakeholders in one eligible country. Geographies: Croatia; Czech Republic; Estonia; Greece; Hungary; Latvia; Malta; Romania; Serbia; Slovenia; Turkey. Who can apply: Registered legal entities established in one of the eligible EIT RIS countries. Single organisations or national consortia may apply. Consortia must include at least two sides of the Knowledge Triangle (education, research and industry), and all consortium partners must be established in the same eligible country. Suitable applicants have demonstrated experience in healthcare innovation ecosystem development, innovation support and entrepreneurship, start-up acceleration, technology transfer, research and higher education, business support, and stakeholder engagement, with strong links to national innovation stakeholders. Funding amount: Up to EUR €182,000 per Country Representative (maximum funding per project); total call budget up to EUR €1,274,500; EIT Health funds up to 60% of total eligible project costs. Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Health; Innovation; Science & Technology; Economic Development & Livelihoods. Deadline: November 2, 2026. Learn more and apply here. Architects of Trust: Community-Driven Demand Creation for New TB Vaccines, Treatment Action Group (TAG). *New!* *Closing soon!* Treatment Action Group, with funding from Wellcome, is opening its Architects of Trust call to help communities prepare for the new tuberculosis vaccines now moving through late-stage trials. The money backs civil society and community-based organizations to raise awareness, surface local questions and concerns, and press policymakers toward equitable national rollout. By pairing each grantee with an advocacy mentor and running a strategy workshop alongside the Global TB Vaccine Forum, Treatment Action Group is building a durable advocacy bench rather than funding one-off outreach. The two-stage design, starting with a short expression of interest, signals that fit and community rootedness matter more than polished proposals. The strongest fits are locally trusted groups with real TB, immunization, or health advocacy experience and a committed project lead. Geographies: Brazil; Ethiopia; India; Indonesia; Kenya; Malawi; Mozambique; Nigeria; Peru; Philippines; South Africa; Tanzania; Vietnam; Zambia. Who can apply: National, subnational, or regional civil society organizations (CSOs) or community-based organizations based in one of the 14 eligible countries or in Eastern Europe/Central Asia regional networks, with experience in TB, immunization, or other health advocacy and in community engagement or policy advocacy; well integrated into stakeholder networks with membership or affiliation to other CSO or community networks; naming a dedicated project lead (’architect of trust’) who can attend the April 2027 Zaragoza forum in person; and holding (or committing to adopt) organizational policies on safeguarding (bullying, harassment, abuse, and harm), equity, diversity and inclusion, and legal compliance, research practice and governance. Funding amount: Grants of up to US$45,000 will be awarded to 8 CSO partners across 14 high-TB-burden countries plus regional networks in Eastern Europe and Central Asia; each grant funds 12 months of work. Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Health; Governance; Policy & Advocacy. Deadline: November 4, 2026. Learn more and apply here.
Jets’ Garrett Wilson Issues Message Amid 49ers Trade Speculation
The San Francisco 49ers have already made one trade leading up to the Nov. 10 deadline, reuniting with former defensive lineman DeForest Buckner in a deal with the Indianapolis Colts. Nonetheless, could the Niners make a bigger move?San Francisco is dealing with injuries to their wideout group, and one of the names floating in the […] The post Jets’ Garrett Wilson Issues Message Amid 49ers Trade Speculation appeared first on HEAVY.
Vikings Get Concerning Update on Jonathan Taylor Trade Rumors
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What European students can learn from their Serbian peers
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China's Pinghu Strengthens Business Ties with Japan
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China's Pinghu Strengthens Business Ties with Germany
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Photo Essay: College of Science and Engineering Research Showcase
Fourth-year Mechanical Engineering major Jess Visaya and Fourth-year Mechanical Engineering major Dorette Pirie show off their soft robots. The robots are made to mimic worms, whose bodies bunch up before extending to propel themselves forward. The robots use pneumatic actuators to make linear movement outwards. Visaya and Pirie set up two of their worms with syringes attached to tubing which was then threaded through the end cap into the worms. Visitors to their station were encouraged to race the two worms by pumping the attached syringes. Third-year Biochemistry major Ira Evetts worked in Dr. Christopher Whidbey’s lab studying the vaginal microbiome, in an attempt to better understand the different microbes that build it up and how it affects health outcomes. Evetts’ research was specifically focused on lactobacillus iners, one of several bacteria naturally present in a healthy vaginal microbiome, and methylation systems. Fourth-year Mechanical Engineering major John Diesko Boehm and Fourth-Year Mechanical Engineering major Ian Agopsowicz hold up their “DAQMobile.” They built their project, a modified RC kit car, to help teach mechanical engineers about circuits and electrical design through real-world application. Fourth-year Mechanical Engineering major Ben Murphy holds up his mole crab and crawfish-inspired burrower. Murphy wanted to imitate the motion of a crab’s legs through robotics, with the primary goal to “turn the rotation of one motor into four alternating legs that would successfully displace soil.” Murphy was inspired by works that take inspiration from the natural world, and he found mole crabs particularly interesting. Although a mole crab is at an advantage with its burrowing being underwater, thus the sand being fluidized and easier to displace, Murphy’s machine is able to successfully burrow three centimeters into the ground. Second-year Mechanical Engineering major and Physics major Arabelle Miller shows off her rubber gripper, inspired by kirigami and origami. She took a piece of rubber and strategically cut slits into it to make it fold the way she needed, then glued googly eyes to the front. The gripper is able to hold up to 38 times its weight, or 226 grams. Third-year Mechanical Engineering major Joonseong Park talked about how his project took an unused and broken 3-D printer and transformed it into a testing platform for soft robotic grippers. The former-printer was reprogrammed and had its extruder part modified to be a mount for the grippers. Park shows off some of the other grippers that can be attached to the testing platform. Park classified grippers into two large categories. The first set of grippers is designed to deal with small delicate objects with great precision, and the second is made to lift heavy or large objects. Third-year Mechanical Engineering major Jiashuo Liu set out with a goal to deploy free open-source AI models to pre-existing robots to integrate object recognition and retrieval and command. The models are used to process the data received from the robots’ cameras in order to detect certain objects and their locations. Fourth-year Mechanical Engineering major Cole Purohit focused on agricultural automation of raspberry picking. His project utilizes kirigami to make grippers to close around a raspberry when the two ends are pulled. “Nobody wants to eat a squished raspberry,” Purohit said. Fourth-Year Biochemistry major Mariel Nolan’s project focused on bacteria and proteins within the bacteria whose functions are unknown. Nolan’s research is finding a way to isolate those proteins with the ultimate goal of determining their functions. Fourth-year Mechanical Engineering major Kai Boydon and Fourth-year Mechanical Engineering major Evan Nguyen show off their project, which uses custom extensors to help with the rehabilitation of stroke patients. They compared their project to a “party-popper” in the way it unfurls itself when placed under a patient’s fingers, helping the stroke patient rehabilitate finger movement. Boydon shows off the testing rig built for their project. It works as a mount for their extensor, as a way to test against resistance. Their program inflates the extensor through an air pump, which then makes the extensor push against the bed whilst an arduino calculates the force created and air pressure associated with the force. Navigate Left Navigate Right
Crystal Hefner hits back at Jon Lovitz for ‘sexist’ response to her claim he was ‘one of the biggest pervs’
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Why Heat Benched Klay Thompson With No Injury
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Cummins’ Engine Business president recognized as distinguished IU alumni
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Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, historic Mexican politician and former presidential candidate, dies at 92
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Lebron Helps 76ers Improve To 4-1
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Italian movie night at the Tropic Cinema
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