COMPASS pathway helps regulatory T cells prevent intestinal inflammation
Trillions of bacteria live in the human gut without triggering an immune response. Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have now discovered a gene-regulatory
High-fat diets in mouse parents alter offspring brain development
Researchers fed breeding pairs of mice five diets with different fat and sugar contents to examine how parental nutrition affects offspring brain development. High-fat diets
UCSF scientists develop smart CAR-T cells to fight childhood brain tumors
Scientists at UC San Francisco have engineered CAR-T cells that stay dormant until they reach the brain, where they switch on and destroy tumor cells.
Supreme Court-backed GOP plot backfires as early ballots flood red states: report
Republicans set out this year to weaken Black voters’ power across the South, and new numbers suggest the effort has badly misfired. Black voters have
Pete Hegseth leaves Pentagon brass guessing after firing another top general: report
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has pushed out yet another senior military leader, leaving those still at the Pentagon to guess why. Army Lt. Gen. Brett
Police close investigation into Hayden Panettiere’s death
Police have closed the investigation into Hayden Panettiere’s death after a post-mortem found she died accidentally.
Discord messages from big public servers will show up in Google search
Messages posted in Discord’s largest public communities will start appearing in Google and other search engines from mid-December. Discord announced the change in a blog
Amazon Leo wins FCC approval to buy iPhone satellite partner Globalstar
The US Federal Communications Commission has approved Amazon Leo’s $11.5bn purchase of Globalstar. Globalstar runs the satellite service behind Apple’s iPhone emergency features. On Tuesday
It costs a lot more to use AI models in some languages
A new study from the Coalition for Language Equity in AI Research shows that AI models require significantly more tokens to process certain languages than
Apple updates iMac, MacBook Pro, and Creator Studio
Apple’s second day of launches this week saw it follow its tempting iPad mini upgrade by pumping up the processor in two of its most popular Macs
Serbians storm TV studio as pro-Vucic media faces reckoning
Serbians stormed a TV studio and confronted its editor-in-chief after a student-led protest movement swept into power.
Bolsonaro in Miami: I am the ‘true president-elect’
Flavio Bolsonaro claimed to be the ‘true president-elect’ of Brazil in his first statement since fleeing to the US.
Riot police deployed in Madrid as protests erupt over deadly train crash
A deadly train crash fuelled anger in Spain as far-right demonstrators clashed with police
Bronze Age sword discovered in an Italian lake is still sharp after 3,300 years
Archaeologists have recovered a well-preserved bronze sword from a volcanic lake in Italy. The 3,300-year-old weapon may have been deposited in the lake as an