New York’s Hospital System Is Dysfunctional for the Seriously Mentally Ill

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An EU–Canada Partnership Against Coercion

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Flaubert, Madame Bovary And The Birth Of Realism

Distorted Intelligence at the AI Frontier

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Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats

Scientists have discovered a powerful gene-targeting system in viruses: Billions of years old, VIPR seems to predate CRISPR and may be even more effective

An in-body networking system for communication between wearable and implantable therapeutics

California’s Shadow Welfare System for Illegal Immigrants

White House move to seize control of NIH grant decisions upsets senators and scientists

UN Peacekeeping in Crisis

Lindsey Graham's Sister Tapped To Replace Him in the Senate

The Canary in the AI Coal Mine

OpenAI’s Altman and Anthropic’s Amodei address UN security council