The US National Institutes of Health has put forward a plan to change how it ranks research proposals and decides which ones to fund.Credit: Timon Schneider/Alamy The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has proposed overhauling how it decides which research projects to fund, and how it reports the outcome of those deliberations. For the
Annabelle Shaw is hockey-obsessed and on a winning streak, scoring eight goals this season for her team, the Panthers. “I don’t give up,” she says proudly, adding that whenever she scores, she celebrates with a cartwheel. And when Annabelle’s not on the pitch, she’s down at the gym. She likes nothing more than working out
A “massive” Ukrainian drone and missile strike on Russia’s port city of Novorossiysk has damaged grain export terminals and hit the last major Russian naval base on the Black Sea. Three people, including an eight-year-old child, were killed and 24 people were injured in the Wednesday nighttime attack. Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed Ukraine had launched
Nvidia has teamed up with some of Wall Street’s largest banks and investors to raise $500bn (£370bn) in capital for artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure. The chipmaker said it had struck deals with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR, and that the investors were for the first time treating AI hardware and infrastructure, often
A medical illustration depicts the Shigella bacteria, a leading cause of diarrheal disease. Smith Collection/Gado via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Smith Collection/Gado via Getty Images Diarrhea has been a headline story in the United States this summer, with thousands of cases of explosive diarrhea traced to Cyclospora from tainted lettuce –- and the
Hackers launched a wave of sophisticated attacks on Wall Street firms in recent days, targeting information systems at major money managers, according to people familiar with the matter. Point72 Asset Management informed investors on Wednesday that it had been attacked, though the hedge fund’s initial indications were that no client information was stolen, according to