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CNN brings you the latest in the renewed space race as the United States and its allies, along with China, strive to establish permanent settlements on the moon. This endeavor has brought into focus the complexities of timekeeping in space, with NASA and its international partners working to create a new time scale specifically for the moon. Cheryl Gramling, the lunar position, navigation, and timing and standards lead at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, clarified that the aim is not to establish a new “time zone” on the moon, as some headlines have suggested. Rather, the goal is to develop…

On Monday, a panel of independent advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration voted to endorse Eli Lilly’s drug donanemab, a monoclonal antibody designed to slow the progression of early symptomatic Alzheimer’s disease, agreeing that it was safe and effective. One in three older Americans dies with Alzheimer’s disease or another form of dementia, according to the Alzheimer’s Association, killing more people than prostate and breast cancer combined. Donanemab works by helping the body remove amyloid plaque buildups in the brain that are a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease. These plaques are harmful deposits that can form in the brain…

In the summer of 2022, Mark Naniot, co-founder of Wild Instincts animal rescue in Wisconsin’s Northwoods, remembers facing a series of challenges that made it feel like the “summer from hell.” Naniot and his team spent the season caring for sick and injured animals while contending with multiple infectious diseases, including Covid-19, chronic wasting disease in deer, and H5N1 bird flu. “H5N1 makes mutations, in the sense of making errors copying its genome, at a higher rate than a coronavirus like SARS-CoV2,” said Dr. Jesse Bloom, a computational biologist at the Fred Hutch Cancer Center in Seattle. The virus has…

Good evening, this is James Parker reporting live from the G7 summit in Puglia, Italy. Pope Francis, the 87-year-old pontiff, is set to make history by becoming the first pope to participate in the summit of leaders from the world’s most advanced economies. On Friday, he will take part in a session dedicated to artificial intelligence (AI), a topic that the pope believes holds both exciting opportunities and grave risks for humanity. Francis, who trained as a chemist in his youth, has been a vocal advocate for the ethical development and use of AI. He has warned against the potential…

The price for owning a home is rising rapidly – and we’re not just talking about mortgage payments. US homeowners are now paying an average of $18,118 a year on property taxes, homeowners’ insurance, maintenance, energy and various other expenses linked to owning a home, according to a new Bankrate study. That’s nearly the cost to buy a used car and represents a 26% increase from four years ago when it cost $14,428 annually to own and maintain a home. All of these variable expenses are on top of the fixed cost of a mortgage, including property taxes, homeowners insurance,…

In one of the most important Senate races of the 2024 election, Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen of Nevada and Republican challenger Sam Brown emerged victorious in their respective primaries on Tuesday. Senate Democrats are facing a challenging political landscape this fall, with key races in red states like Montana, Ohio, and West Virginia, as well as in swing states. Rosen’s seat is crucial for the party’s hopes of maintaining its slim majority in the chamber. Nevada is set to play a significant role in November’s elections, as Republicans look to challenge Democratic dominance in federal races in the state. The…

Former President Jimmy Carter’s startling revelations in a 1976 Playboy magazine interview regarding his struggles with lust and adultery had a far-reaching impact on his political career. Carter’s transparent admission of having “looked on a lot of women with lust” and “committed adultery in my heart many times” nearly cost him the presidential election. Fast forward to the present day, and a very different political landscape emerges with former President Donald Trump’s recent conviction on all 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up a sex scandal involving a porn star. Trump, the first former president in US history…

In a recent special election, Republican Michael Rulli emerged victorious in Ohio’s 6th Congressional District, further solidifying his party’s control in the House of Representatives. Rulli, a state senator from the Youngstown area and an executive in his family’s grocery store chain, defeated Democratic Air Force veteran Michael Kripchak in the race for the expansive district along the Ohio River in eastern Ohio. This win means Rulli will be taking over the seat previously held by former Rep. Bill Johnson, a seven-term Republican who vacated the position in January to assume the presidency of Youngstown State University. Throughout the campaign,…