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Biden’s big bill on brink of House votes, but fights remain

Nov 6, 2021

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., arrives to lead Democrats in advancing President Joe Biden's $1.85 trillion-and-growing domestic policy package, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Nov. 5, 2021....

Pharmaceutical industry likely to shatter its lobbying record as it works to shape Democrats’ spending bill

Nov 6, 2021

“I’ve been attacked before, but I’ve never seen one as egregious as this one in terms of ‘Andy Kim’s trying to cut Medicare,’” Kim said. That provision to control drug...

Study reveals ‘drastic changes’ to daily routines during UK lockdowns

Nov 6, 2021

“The lockdowns resulted in drastic changes to patterns of time use, disrupting routines and blurring the distinction between work and family life,” said co-author Dr Ines Lee from Cambridge’s Faculty...

Cures for the health insurance enrollment blues

Nov 6, 2021

Some countries with national health insurance plans face a basic problem: Not enough people sign up for those programs, and the ones who do tend to have worse-than-average health. “Investments...

China's forgotten heroes

Nov 5, 2021

Like many other KMT veterans, Zeng destroyed documents, photographs and items proving his KMT membership to avoid persecution. Photograph: Xue GangA local redress activist visited his house after reading an...

Oxford mathematician points out shortcuts in Harvard talk

Nov 5, 2021

Marcus du Sautoy was around 13 when the exploits of a 19th-century German math genius changed his life. So, he simply multiplied 50 times 101 and dropped the correct answer,...

Murphy’s narrow win in New Jersey does little to ease Democratic anxieties

Nov 5, 2021

Shortly after the race was called, Ciattarelli’s campaign signaled that a concession was far from imminent. As they mulled the election results, some New Jersey Democrats blamed Biden. The governor,...

Whole genome sequencing increases diagnosis of rare disorders by nearly a third, study finds

Nov 5, 2021

Mitochondrial disorders affect around 1 in 4300 people and cause progressive, incurable diseases. While previous studies based on small, highly selected cohorts have suggested that WGS can identify mitochondrial disorders,...

Scientists discover how our brain uses nutritional state to regulate growth and age at puberty

Nov 4, 2021

In a part of the brain called the hypothalamus, these hormones act on a small group of neurons that produce signals called melanocortins. They found that in response to nutritional...

Construction gets underway at Oxford’s Life and Mind Building

Nov 4, 2021

Legal & General, Oxford University and Wates are pleased to announce that construction has started on the ‘Life and Mind Building’ in Oxford, as part of Legal & General and...