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As AI in politics becomes more common, here's how voters can stay vigilant
Experts say voters cannot rely on visual clues alone to spot fake election content.
COVE Animal Health and Animal Clinic Northview to Reopen Norwalk Veterinary Medical Center, Expanding Access to Integrated Veterinary Care
MIDDLETOWN, Conn., October 28, 2026--COVE Animal Health, a Community of Veterinary Entrepreneurs, today announced that Norwalk Veterinary Medical Center in Norwalk, Ohio will re-open as part of their Animal Clinic Northview (ACN) hospital network.
Legends Radio highlights Claudio Jaffé’s musical passion
Claudio Jaffé COURTESY PHOTO This week's Legends Radio Local Artist Spotlight shines on internationally celebrated cellist Claudio Jaffé.For Claudio, a lifelong passion for music began at an early age. At just eleven years old, he made his orchestral debut in his native Brazil, launching a career that would take him to celebrated stages across the globe, including New York, London and Tokyo.A prizewinning performer and Yale University graduate, Jaffé has dedicated much of his career not only to musical excellence but also to sharing his knowledge with aspiring musicians. He previously served as Dean of the Lynn University Conservatory of Music.Today, Claudio serves as principal cellist of the Palm Beach Symphony, performing in the orchestra's Masterworks Concert Series at the Kravis Center. He also hosts “Symphony Sessions: Lunch & Learn,” giving music lovers an opportunity to explore the stories, composers, and preparation behind upcoming concerts. His scheduled sessions for the 2026–2027 season include February 4 and April 22.Beyond the stage, Jaffé remains deeply involved in community outreach and music education. Through school residencies, student coaching, and educational performances, he continues to share his experience with young musicians throughout Palm Beach County.His contributions reflect a career dedicated not simply to performing beautiful music but also to ensuring its appreciation continues for generations to come. His commitment to both performance and education continues to make a lasting impact on South Florida's cultural community.That is why Claudio Jaffé is this week's Legends Radio Local Artist Spotlight.
SLT Built Its Fitness Business on the Megaformer. Now It's Suing Its Maker for at Least $50 Million
Licensing agreements between the two companies date back to 2011. They're now at the center of a high-stakes legal battle.
Michigan Science Center plans new exhibits, from a VR gaming arena to an indoor treehouse
The Michigan Science Center plans to add an indoor treehouse, a children’s planetarium and a virtual reality gaming arena as part of a $5.5 million expansion of its exhibits.
As AI in politics becomes more common, here's how voters can stay vigilant
Experts say voters cannot rely on visual clues alone to spot fake election content.
Scientists Identified 9 Ways of Measuring Earth’s Habitability. We’re Already Failing at 7 of Them.
These ecological pillars, which form the foundation of our planet’s habitability for all life, including humans, have never been in rougher shape.
CLOG's 'Annie' coming to the Clay Center; 'Les Misérables' auditions slated
The Charleston Light Opera Guild and the Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences of West Virginia will co-present the beloved Broadway musical "Annie" Thursday and next weekend in the
The Latest: Trump Pushing to Keep Red-State Senate Seats in GOP Hands
President Donald Trump told Texans they'd better accept data centers in their communities and floated making Venezuela the 51st state as he stumped for Republican Ken Paxton, while Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico said a “corruption crisis” plagues U.S. politics. Social media videos ...
Post Malone to headline New Year's Eve concert following NHL Winter Classic in Utah
Post Malone will headline a New Year's Eve concert at the Delta Center, capping off a historic night of professional hockey as Salt Lake prepares to host the NH
University of New Mexico Health System Diverts Ambulances Due to Ransomware Attack
The University of New Mexico Health System (UNM Health) has experienced a cyberattack that has prevented access to critical electronic systems. The The University of New Mexico Health System, which operates the only level 1 trauma center in the state, is recovering from an October 26 ransomware attack that forced it to cancel appointments and temporarily divert ambulances.
Goodlander-Tang Williams 2026 debate: Mental health and shootings
New Hampshire 2nd Congressional District candidates Maggie Goodlander and Lily Tang Williams address whether they think Congress can do anything more to address mental health issues linked to shootings.
MAHA’s midterm report card
It’s been just over two years since the rise of Make America Great Again, or MAHA. The movement united a coalition of moms, wellness influencers and voters across the political spectrum over concerns about chronic illness and childhood diseases. And when Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took over as Secretary of Health and Human Services, it seemed like MAHA would be front and center in Washington.But as we approach the midterm elections, has the Trump administration made good on the MAHA agenda? On today’s episode, we dig into what’s changed, what hasn’t and what that means for your health.Interested in more health science? Email us your question at shortwave@npr.org.Support public media with NPR+ and enjoy perks for over 25 podcasts like this one. This show’s perks include sponsor-free listening. Learn more at plus.npr.org.
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
Charleston Ballet debuts 'Legend of Mothman', about West Virginia's native cryptid
The Charleston Ballet debuted "The Legend of Mothman", a collaboration between Deborah Novak and choreographer Kim Pauley, Oct. 23, 2026, at the Culture Center Theater in Charleston, West Virginia. The 40-minute program featured dancers dressed in 1960s-inspired costumes and an original score by Charleston-native composer Matthew Jackfert, who hosts "Film Score Fridays" for West Virginia Public Broadcasting.
Students Exploring Studying Abroad Opportunities, talking to a rep from Eberly college of science
A student talks with a representative from the Eberly College of Science at their booth table during the Education Abroad Fair in Alumni Hall, HUB-Robeson Center in University Park, Pa.,
The Science Behind Jalen Hurts’ Controversial Blood Clot Diagnosis Is More Complicated Than It Looks
The Philadelphia Eagles quarterback played with a “superficial” blood clot that turned into something much more serious. Where did things go wrong?
Sanford to end labor and delivery services in Luverne
The announcement highlights the challenges faced by rural communities as hospitals contend with declining birth volumes, staffing demands and the need to maintain specialized maternity care.
ENTERTAINMENT: Big Boo!seum Bash offers trick-or-treating at 9 locations
Nine Little Rock museums and cultural centers offer free trick-or-treating, games and activities to the annual Big Boo!seum Bash, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Thursday.
Medicaid work requirements, mental health access in last Lahn-Sand debate
In their last face-to-face debate, Zach Lahn and Rob Sand clashed over mental health access and upcoming Medicaid work requirements in Iowa.
Corning’s American Tradition of Knowledge in Materials Science
Founded in 1851 in upstate New York, where it remains, Corning is a manufacturer of specialized glass that has a market capitalization of over $100 billion as of October 2026 (GLW), annual revenues approaching $20 billion, and nearly 70,000 employees worldwide.1 Corning is the world’s leading manufacturer of touchscreen glass, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of optical fiber for long-distance telecommunication, the leading U.S. manufacturer of polysilicon for solar panels, and one of two suppliers of glass for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) photomasks needed to make the world’s most powerful chips with ASML machines. Optical fiber is also increasingly crucial to expand the computational capacity of AI data centers with optical networking. Corning is a rare jewel of the American Industrial Revolution that has not just remained competitive to the present day but repeatedly enabled technological transformations: it developed the glass for Thomas Edison’s first light bulbs in the 1880s, invented optical fiber cable in the 1970s, and developed the “Gorilla Glass” touchscreens for Apple’s iPhones that kicked off the global smartphone revolution in the 2000s. Corning’s leading tradition of knowledge in materials science has allowed it to stave off successive waves of competition over the decades from Europe, Japan, and now China.
Highmark Wholecare - a community-based health plan
Highmark Wholecare works with community-based organizations to improve the health of members and their communities. Annually, the insurer participates in more than 1,000 community events each year, with organizations like Center in the Park.
Dr. Jen Ashton Answers TODAY Viewers' Top Health Questions
Dr. Jen Ashton, board-certified in OBGYN and obesity medicine and host of the popular “Dear Dr. Jen” podcast, joins TODAY to share her professional opinions on top health questions from viewers.
Science Center Unveils 200,000-Square-Foot Air and Space Center
The California Science Center unveiled its new Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center Wednesday, featuring space shuttle Endeavour displayed vertically in a 20-story launch configuration ahead of the facility’s Nov. 13 public opening. The 200,000-square-foot expansion nearly doubles the Science Center’s exhibit space and includes 100 aerospace artifacts and 100 hands-on exhibits focused on science […]
Politics is medicine on a large scale
In February 1848, a 26-year-old doctor named Rudolf Virchow arrived in Upper Silesia, a poor, rural corner of Prussia that’s now part of Poland. A typhus epidemic was killing thousands, and the Berlin government wanted a doctor to assess how to contain this pathogen, advise local authorities, and propose a plan. Virchow spent a few weeks going from villa…
South Korea Google Apple
In this photo provided by the Korea Media and Communications Commission (KMCC), KMCC chairperson Kim Jong-cheol, center, speaks during a meeting at the government complex in Gwacheon, South Korea, Wednesday,
Public Health Leaders and Scholars File Amicus Brief Challenging CMS Medicaid Work Requirement Rule in Taylor v. Kennedy
The American Public Health Association, Grantmakers In Health, the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health’s Jacobs Institute of Women’s Health and National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership, Liberty Health Alliance and 167 public health and health policy deans, chairs and scholars have filed an amicus curiae brief supporting the plaintiffs in Taylor v. Kennedy, a lawsuit challenging a federal Medicaid rule that they argue unlawfully narrows protections for p
Judge denies feds' request to block 20,000 California ballots in blistering opinion
U.S. District Judge David O. Carter ruled that the administration's allegations were "not credible" and that the intervention it sought would violate a host of federal laws.
New Hampshire political dynasty boosts John E. Sununu in Senate bid
Political dynasty is front and center as Republican John E. Sununu seeks to retake his old Senate seat in a close-fought race against Democratic Representative Chris Pappas.
Nick Shirley criticizes California for political climate
(The Center Square) – Independent journalist Nick Shirley blasted California for its political climate and lack of fiscal accountability during an address Tuesday night near the University of Mississi...
Alta Scores 26 Nominations for National Arts and Entertainment Awards from Los Angeles Press Club
More than two dozen Alta Journal writers, illustrators, and photographers were named finalists.
CMU Nursing Students Take Lifesaving Skills Into the Community
Each semester, Colorado Mesa University nursing students organize a health fair inside the University Center, where they set up CPR mannequins and ask students, staff and faculty passing by if they have a few minutes to practice a skill that ...
Science Center Unveils 200,000-Square-Foot Air and Space Center
The California Science Center unveiled its new Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center Wednesday, featuring space shuttle Endeavour displayed vertically in a 20-story launch configuration ahead of the facility’s Nov. 13 public opening. The 200,000-square-foot expansion nearly doubles the Science Center’s exhibit space and includes 100 aerospace artifacts and 100 hands-on exhibits focused on science […]
Charleston Ballet debuts 'Legend of Mothman', about West Virginia's famous cryptid
The Charleston Ballet debuted "The Legend of Mothman", a collaboration between Deborah Novak and choreographer Kim Pauley, Oct. 23, 2026, at the Culture Center Theater in Charleston, West Virginia. The 40-minute program featured dancers dressed in 1960s-inspired costumes and an original score by Charleston-native composer Matthew Jackfert, who hosts "Film Score Fridays" for West Virginia Public Broadcasting.
Curiosity Blog, Sols 5043-5049: Preparing to Drill at ‘Nazca’
Written by Lucy Lim, Planetary Scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Oceanographic Surveys Reveal Surprisingly Lower Summer Temperatures for Alaska’s Kachemak Bay - NCCOS - National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
Scientists with NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) Kasitsna Bay Laboratory conduct monthly oceanographic surveys in Kachemak Bay, a subarctic estuary located in southeast Cook Inlet and adjacent to the northern Gulf of Alaska. Through these surveys, scientists were pleasantly surprised to discover that this year’s water temperatures have remained persistently colder than ... Read more
California Science Center Unveils 200,000-Square-Foot Air and Space Center
The California Science Center unveiled its new Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center Wednesday, featuring space shuttle Endeavour displayed vertically in a 20-story launch configuration ahead of the facility’s Nov. 13 public opening. The 200,000-square-foot expansion nearly doubles the Science Center’s exhibit space and includes 100 aerospace artifacts and 100 hands-on exhibits focused on science […]
Opinion: Granite Staters want a fighter on health insurance costs
A UNH Survey Center poll shows 90% of NH residents believe insurance companies have too much power over medical treatments.
Event Recap: What Is Health Law? - Petrie-Flom Center
On September 30, five prominent Harvard Law School alumni told a packed room about how the field of health law has developed, through the lens of the varied paths that led them to their careers.
The Highlands unveils new public art installation
International street artist Kelsey Montague created a new interactive wing mural at The Highlands Visitor Center in Porter.
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.
Lansing-area community severs ties with economic development agency after data center pitch
A township near Lansing is ending its relationship with the region's economic development agency the day after a surprise announcement of a data center project.
National political action committees pour money into Kansas data center politics
With national focus on the Kansas midterm election, pro-data center political action committees (PAC) are filtering funds and messaging into the Sunflower state.
Natalie Lynch to lead Ankeny Art Center
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The science of a sporting edge
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A sneak peek at the roller skating rink coming to Okemos. What we know
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Professor’s new book examines political tendencies of early Supreme Court
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Four candidates vie to lead Coachella after turbulent year in city politics
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CLOG's 'Annie' coming to the Clay Center; 'Les Misérables' auditions slated
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MARIA BARTIMORO TO HOST AMERICA BUSINESS FORUM 2026
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How a lifelong Republican came to lead the data center battle in Ohio
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Red Wings Could Have Intriguing Trade Partner for Simon Edvinsson
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New health center opens at Port Townsend school
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Power of Pink: Genetic Testing for Breast Health
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Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox brings vintage sounds to Clark State
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The Latest: Trump pushing to keep red-state Senate seats in GOP hands
President Donald Trump told Texans they’d better accept data centers in their communities and floated making Venezuela the 51st state as he stumped for Republican Ken Paxton, while Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico said a “corruption crisis” plagues U.S. politics
Alphabet, Microsoft earnings reveal surging AI demand as spending soars
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Discover the science behind nuclear energy at hands-on INL event
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Housing, jobs and a movie theater: What’s in the $43.3M RenCen community benefits agreement
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Mahoning Valley arts and entertainment
Art ASHTABULA ARTS CENTER, 2928 W. 13th St., Ashtabula: 2026 Paul and Norma Tikkanen Painting Prize exhibition, through Saturday. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. ashtabulaartscenter.org and 440-964-3396. BUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART, 524 Wick Ave., Youngstown: “In […]
International Judo Competition draws athletes, boosts sports tourism in Gainesville
Hundreds of judo athletes from more than 40 countries are competing over four days at the Alachua County Sports and Events Center at Celebration Pointe.
'Heartbreak House' review: A tenderly luminous Shaw revival
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The Precision Peptide Company Highlights 30 Years of Peptide Science Behind Its Product Platform
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The Jupiter Ball Returns to Morehead Planetarium and Science Center this November
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Ice cream business new to Aiken coming to the Southside. Where will it be located?
AIKEN — Work has begun on the Southside to turn a former barbershop into an ice cream business. Stone Cold Creamery’s first location here will be in the shopping center that Target anchors on Whiskey ...
Rehabilitation hospital proposed for Manor Township
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San Antonio considers $850M convention center expansion and $125M in Alamodome improvements
The Latest: Trump pushing to keep red-state Senate seats in GOP hands
President Donald Trump told Texans they’d better accept data centers in their communities and floated making Venezuela the 51st state as he stumped for Republican Ken Paxton, while Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico said a “corruption crisis” plagues U.S. politics.
Scientists in Abu Dhabi use AI to decipher whale, dolphin songs
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Euclid to open new health center to expand community health access
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UNM Health Center Reopens to Patients After Cyber Event
After a “cybersecurity event” Monday shuttered the system of the state’s only Level 1 trauma center, the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center has resumed operations.
Essentia Health Hosts Ribbon Cutting for New Orthopedic Center in Baxter
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NFIB Research Center's Holly Wade: Small business optimism did decline in September
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40 Years Ago Women Couldn't Get Business Loans Without Men. That's When Hedy Ratner Stepped In
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Photos: Chicago Blackhawks 2, Los Angeles Kings 1
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The science behind the screams: Inside Mishawaka’s Legend Park
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San Antonio officials pitch $850 million Convention Center expansion
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Jackson leaders urged to ignore data center misinformation
Data centers are facing increasing pushback from residents in Mississippi and across the country as companies are rushing to meet the expected artificial intelligence demand for computing power.
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Science Center Unveils 200,000-Square-Foot Air and Space Center
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Cancer and family finances make health care debate personal for Nunn, Trone Garriott
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How data centers came to dominate politics in Maryland’s purplest county
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Post Malone to Headline New Year’s Eve Festival as Smith Entertainment Group Brings a Blockbuster Winter Weekend to Utah
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California Science Center Unveils New Air and Space Center
The California Science Center unveiled its new Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center Wednesday, featuring space shuttle Endeavour displayed vertically in a 20-story launch configuration ahead of the facility’s Nov. 13 public opening. The 200,000-square-foot expansion nearly doubles the Science Center’s exhibit space and includes 100 aerospace artifacts and 100 hands-on exhibits focused on science […]
Raiders Host Intermountain Children's Health Patients
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Dueling rallies thrust deep-red Lone Star town into the center of the political universe
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