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Jan 16 2025POLITICS

Making NYC Affordable: 40 Fresh Ideas

New York City's affordability crisis is real, with many residents struggling to make ends meet. We gathered diverse perspectives, from experts to everyday New Yorkers, to brainstorm big and small ideas that could make the city more affordable. Here are some standout suggestions that could shape city

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Jan 16 2025SPORTS

Billionaire Tech CEO Dives into College Football Recruiting

Billionaire Larry Ellison, known for his massive political donations, has now turned his attention to college football. After a Supreme Court ruling allowed college athletes to profit from their name, image, and likeness (NIL), Ellison helped secure a top high school quarterback recruit for the Univ

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Jan 16 2025SCIENCE

Watching Receptors Move in Living Cells: A Scientific Dance

Picture this: scientists trying to follow tiny dancers on a bustling stage. In this case, the dancers are CB2 receptors, and the stage is the surface of living cells. To make these receptors visible, researchers used a special light-up tag called RO7304924. This tag attaches only to CB2 receptors, m

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Jan 16 2025SCIENCE

Exploring Sugar Coatings on Proteins: What They Mean for Our Health

You know how proteins in your body can have sugar molecules attached to them? This process is called glycosylation. It's super important for things like making proteins strong and helping cells stick to each other. But sometimes, these sugar coatings can go wonky. When they do, it's linked to seriou

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Jan 16 2025TECHNOLOGY

Sebastian Vogelsang's New Instagram-Like App on Bluesky's AT Protocol

Have you ever wished for a simpler version of Instagram? Well, hold on to your hats because there's a new app on the block! Sebastian Vogelsang, a clever developer, is creating a fun new app called Flashes. This app is built on top of Bluesky's AT Protocol, which means you can use it just like Insta

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Jan 16 2025BUSINESS

TikTok's US Unit Could Fetch Up to $50 Billion

Imagine TikTok’s US operations being sold for up to $50 billion! That's a lot of money, right? Business bigwigs like Elon Musk might need to dig deep into their pockets if ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, decides to sell. This could happen if the Supreme Court upholds a national security law that

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Jan 16 2025SCIENCE

Solving Neurodegenerative Diseases: A New Puzzle Piece

Neurodegenerative diseases are like intricate puzzles that scientists are working hard to solve. They affect both small components (like molecules and cells) and large aspects (such as physiology) of the brain. Traditional tools aren't doing the job well, but a new technology called microfluidics mi

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Jan 15 2025SCIENCE

Tiny Metal Clusters and MOFs: A Green Team-Up

Imagine the smallest metal clusters, called nanoclusters, teaming up with metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) to tackle environmental problems. Each has its own strengths, but when combined, they create powerful composites that improve and speed up chemical reactions. Scientists are now studying how the

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Jan 15 2025SCIENCE

Flexible Fluorescent Probes: How Molecular Shape Affects Mercury Detection

You know how some molecules can twist and bend, while others stay stiff? Scientists found that this flexibility can change how certain fluorescent probes work when they detect toxic mercury (Hg²⁺) in water. They looked at two types of these probes, one with a wiggly bit (1) and one that's pretty str

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Jan 15 2025SCIENCE

Two Moon Landers, One Launch: What's the Big Deal?

Early morning on January 15th, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center. Aboard were two lunar landers, one from the U. S. and one from Japan, each with their own unique journey to the moon. Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost 1 and ispace's HAKUTO-R M2 'Resilience' are bo

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