A demonstrator in Massachusetts wearing a bridal gown takes part in a protest urging legislators to end child marriage. David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe/via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption i David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe/via Getty Images It’s been a landmark year for activists seeking bans against child marriage in the U.S. On Sept.
Available for over a year Alison Mitchell, Jim Maxwell and Sunil Gupta discuss what the future could hold for West Indies cricket after the board announced a series of cost-cutting measures. International players face a 25% cut in retainer fees, and the men’s Super50 and women’s T20 Blaze competitions have been suspended. Journalist and commentator
See Saturn at opposition, catch the Orionid meteor shower, and watch the Moon pass close to the Pleiades, also known as the Seven Sisters. Oct. 4: Saturn reaches opposition, making the ringed planet visible for much of the night Oct. 6: A thin crescent Moon appears close to bright Jupiter before sunrise Oct. 21–22: The
AFP and Bloomberg via Getty Images/Collage by Javier Palma for NPR Since announcing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his pick for Health and Human Services secretary last year, President Trump and Kennedy have touted their dedication to “Gold Standard Scientific Research” and making federal health agencies “beacons of Transparency.” But a recent report released by
In the end, Casey Bloys knew he was holding all the cards. As the industry continued to speculate about whether the HBO boss or Paramount’s Cindy Holland would wind up with control of the two companies’ soon-to-be-merged streaming behemoth, in recent weeks the momentum seemed to be on Bloys’ side. So when Paramount direct-to-consumer chair
AI agents trawling through genomic data spotted sequences of DNA (artist’s illustration) reminiscent of those in bacterial CRISPR immune systems. Credit: Kateryna Kon/SPL/Getty Sure, AI can parse petabytes of data. But how well can it pipette? Regardless of the answer, artificial intelligence titan Anthropic has launched a biology ‘wet lab’ where human scientists and AI
