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The day to vote on HR-1, a major piece of legislation that would overhaul campaign finance laws, expand voting rights and limit partisan gerrymandering, has arrived in Washington. First introduced in 2019, the HR-1, or the For the People Act, is being hailed by some as the next Voting Rights…

A mild process discovered by Rice University chemists could replace difficult, silver-based catalysis to create valuable fluoroketones, a precursor in the design and manufacture of drugs. Credit: Renee Man/@chemkitty Save your silver! It's better used for jewelry than as a catalyst for drugs. Rice University scientists have developed a greatly…

The most significant WandaVision leak so far reveals the true identity of a mysterious character. Unlike other recent WandaVision leaks that turned out to be accurate, this leak has been verified before Episode 8 aired. The mysterious character might be the person that Paul Bettany teased in recent interviews. The…

Doctors from Yale successfully demonstrated a potential precursor for a paralysis cure following spinal cord injuries. The researchers collected stem cells from the bone marrow of patients suffering from various types of spinal cord injuries and then injected the patients with their own stem cells. Within weeks after the stem…

Suppose aliens existed, and imagine that some of them had been watching our planet for its entire four and a half billion years. What would they have seen? Over most of that vast timespan, Earth’s appearance altered slowly and gradually. Continents drifted; ice cover waxed and waned; successive species emerged,…

PETALING JAYA: A decade in the wilderness has done little to diminish Dr Mohd Khir Toyo’s passion for political office. In the 10 years since he was sent to prison and his eventual release, the Umno veteran never lost sight of his determination to make a comeback. “Politics will enable…

Angelo Quinto lay facedown on the hardwood floor of his mother’s bedroom with blood pooling out of his mouth and his hands cuffed behind his back. “What happened?” his mother, Cassandra Quinto-Collins, breathlessly asked two police officers huddled over his body in a video she shot of the Dec. 23…

Right-wing influencers are being investigated by the FBI and the Justice Department, according to The Washington Post. Investigators are exploring possible ties between Alex Jones, Roger Stone, and the insurrectionists. The investigation wants to understand what the rioters were thinking when they ransacked the US Capitol. Visit the Business section…

At a glacier near the South Pole, earth scientists have found evidence of a quiet, slow-motion fault slip that triggers strong, fast-slip earthquakes many miles away, according to Cornell University research published in Science Advances. During an earthquake, a fast slip happens when energy builds up underground and is released…

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