The Supreme Court is set to take up two cases challenging the use of race based admissions, or affirmative action, in our nation’s top colleges. At issue are policies that make it far more difficult for applicants from some racial groups, specifically Asian Americans, to gain entry to competitive schools, while other groups, such as blacks and Hispanics, face a lower academic bar.
Appearing on CNN on Friday morning, former Deputy Assistant Attorney General and U.S. Attorney Harry Litman suggested reports that there was a large gap in White House call logs on Jan. 6 should compel the House committee investigating the insurrection to get Donald Trump's personal phone records as well as those belonging to his inner circle.
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In 2020, Prof. Teruo Ono and his colleagues at Kyoto University reported the very first observation of a magnetically controllable, superconducting diode effect in an artificial superlattice. Their findings, published in Nature, paved the way for other studies aimed at moving towards the fabrication of non-dissipative electronic circuits.
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Human eggs often contain the wrong number of chromosomes, leading to miscarriages and infertility. A research team led by Melina Schuh at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Multidisciplinary Sciences has discovered that human eggs are missing an important protein, which acts as a molecular motor. This motor helps to stabilize the machinery that separates the chromosomes during cell division. The researchers' findings open up new avenues for therapeutic approaches that could reduce chromosome segregation errors in human eggs.
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Eric Kim has recipes for Valentine’s Day and a suggestion: Cook together.
New research has found Brits consume up to a staggering 10,000 calories on Super Bowl day.
Shonda Rhimes’s new show has a juicy, based-on-a-true-story premise but doesn’t seem to understand our fascination with grifters.
Canadian oil producers are exporting crude to the U.S. at record rates, Reuters has reported, adding that demand for the heavy, sour crude that Canada is producing is surging. What’s more, a growing amount of this crude is not staying at Gulf Coast refineries but is being exported to international markets. Kpler data cited by Reuters shows that the rate of Canadian heavy crude exports from the Gulf Coast topped 180,000 bpd last year, up from about 70,000 bpd in 2019 and 2020. In December, export... Читать дальше...
The high-tech devices can track the force, location and severity of hits during play. But can they help protect players from the danger of repeated head injuries?
Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division has launched Sixth Sense, an open innovation platform for startup companies serving the digital needs of the manufacturing industry.
The Helen Delich Bentley Port of Baltimore announced it received a $1.8 million grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for the port’s Diesel Equipment Upgrade Program, which replaces older cargo-handling equipment and dray trucks with newer, cleaner and more efficient models.
Not much on this Earth is more adorable than two pups in love. That’s why they call it puppy love, right? If you’re looking for that same Bella Note ambiance as Lady and the Tramp this Valentine’s Day, there are plenty of foods to share.
I have a new item for your to-do list: Make a better to-do list. As I’ve written before, I’m a huge proponent of tracking all the little details of your life with spreadsheets. I would never dream of dismissing the mighty pen and paper, but spreadsheets offer the ability to organize every corner of your life with much…
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FREMONT, Neb. – Midland University head women's hockey coach Jason White has announced the addition of Sabrina Durham to the Warriors' 2022 recruiting class. Durham will be coming to MU from Lasalle, Ontario next fall.
One of the newest housing trends in American backyards is the A.D.U. or Accessory Dwelling Unit. An A.D.U. is a small house located on the same lot as a single-family home. It’s an independent residential unit that can be a guest house, a home for extended family, or even an office or a party space.
I recently walked into a grocery store in Lafayette and was greeted with lots of balloons and flowers, only to remind me that Valentine's Day is approaching. Continue reading…
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Actor Ankur Verma, who has acted in shows like Naagin 4 and Yeh Hain Chahtein, is all set to be part of the new show Parineetii that stars Tanvi Dogra and Anchal Sahu in lead roles alongside Ankur. This one is special for Ankur because he plays the main lead here for the first time. He says excitedly, "It's such an amazing feeling to play a lead role and I'm grateful to God.
Kell Brook has waited a long time for a shot at Amir Khan but can he keep his emotions in check? | Photo by Steve Parsons/PA Images via Getty Images
Brook faces his archnemesis in Khan next Saturday night in Manchester.
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In the antitrust lawsuit between Epic Games and Apple, we were constantly reminded of the fundamental weakness of Epic’s case and the flaw in antitrust laws. Antitrust law is supposed to protect consumers from monopolistic company behavior, like cornering a market and raising prices. But the law doesn’t protect competitors from the practices of monopolists. […]
Kenneth Branagh's Agatha Christie adaptation Death on the Nile begins with a flashback to the trenches of World War I before shifting to 1930s London two decades later, but that’s nothing compared to the time that's passed since Branagh's preceding 2017 whodunit Murder on the Orient Express.