A campaign of inflammatory anti-transgender ads targeting conservative voters before the 2024 presidential election has spent millions of dollars. The ad campaign, which broke this month in some key swing states, targets transgender athletes in women’s sports and youth gender-affirming the former now a high-profile theme for the Republican Party and the latter representing a…
Georgia stands out as one of the most competitive swing states in this election year, and it is witnessing a record upsurge in early voting as election season draws closer. State officials report that over 750,000 ballots have been cast so far-that’s a record for early voting compared to any previous midterm elections. It is…
Introduction: The Age of Advanced Phage Research Leading research in 2024 has better explained the intricate host-virus relationship between bacteriophages and their bacterial hosts, showing how these small bacterial predators make use of auxiliary metabolic genes to influence host metabolism. A team from the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, in cooperation with its international team, presents this…
So far in 2024, an unprecedented trend—a host of new proteins—have been designed with the help of AI. Major gains in machine learning and structural biology have, for the first time, allowed AI to go the extra step: not merely predicting the structure of an already-existing protein, but actually designing completely new proteins that could…
Introduction This 2024, the model and daughter of Lionel Richie, Sofia Richie Grainge, has spoken about her rather turbulent pregnancy experience on different platforms. The complications that happened before the birth of her daughter, Eloise, saw a rather immense emotional and medical response, and she and husband Elliot Grainge were rather worried. Richie also developed…
Heidi Klum and her daughter Leni left onlookers speechless, just like always, in their recent lingerie campaign for the Italian brand Intimissimi. This 2024 collaboration shows off the chemistry and modeling prowess of the mother-daughter duo, continuing their long-standing partnership with the luxury lingerie label. The campaign features both of them posing together in an…
A rough swell along Oahu’s North Shore had washed three tourists into the ocean Monday, killing one man and leaving two women badly mauled by the rough waves, before lifeguards could reach them. The incident was at Keiki Beach, the beach famous for dangerous waves, despite having plenty of warning signs posted around the beach….
Yosemite National Park abandoned advance reservations early in the season, so visitors are allowed to come and go without making a reservation until the close of 2024. While this decision does some good for visitor flexibility in travel plans, officials do not intend to come forward with their 2025 visitor access plan until later in…
Health officials sounded an alarm yesterday over a sharp rise in respiratory illnesses, including whooping cough and walking pneumonia, that is affecting school-age children. In particular, parents of newborns are being worried by the safety concerns as cases of whooping cough have risen fourfold this year compared to last year, based on data from the…
The U.S. government has used the Defense Production Act to expedite the recovery of a vital North Carolina facility in response to a statewide IV fluid shortage brought on by Hurricane Helene. Hospitals have been forced to postpone surgeries and implement emergency conservation measures as a result of the significant disruption in medical supply production,…
