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Medical Xpress / FDA's top tobacco official is removed from post in latest blow to health agency's leadership

The Food and Drug Administration's chief tobacco regulator has been removed from his post amid sweeping cuts at the agency and across the federal health workforce handed down Tuesday, according to people familiar with the ...

10 minutes ago in Other
Phys.org / $5 billion proposal for salmon restoration aimed at addressing tribal lawsuit

State lawmakers have revealed a proposal that would authorize special bonds to raise an additional $5 billion for salmon recovery projects stemming from the state's long-running tribal fishing rights lawsuit.

17 minutes ago in Biology
Phys.org / First layers of soil to be laid on 101 Freeway wildlife crossing in California, the world's largest

The wildlife crossing designed to help mountain lions, deer, bobcats and other creatures safely travel over the 101 Freeway between the Simi Hills and the Santa Monica Mountains will reach a major milestone on Monday, as ...

17 minutes ago in Biology
Phys.org / Video: Is space debris a crisis?

The European Space Agency's short documentary film "Space Debris: Is it a Crisis?" on the state of space debris premiered at the 9th European Conference on Space Debris on 1 April 2025.

12 minutes ago in Astronomy & Space
Medical Xpress / Layoffs begin at the nation's health agencies

Employees across the massive U.S. Department of Health and Human Services began receiving notices of dismissal on Tuesday in a major overhaul expected to ultimately lay off up to 10,000 people. The notices just days after ...

8 minutes ago in Other
Phys.org / FAA closes investigation into Blue Origin New Glenn booster failure

The Federal Aviation Administration has said that it will allow Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket to fly again, following a review of the January mishap in which the rocket made a successful debut launch but crashed during landing.

6 minutes ago in Astronomy & Space
Tech Xplore / Nasdaq 100's worst quarter in years sealed by AI bubble fears

In a quarter marred by tariff uncertainty, U.S. government spending cuts and the threat of recession, it is fears about a bubble brewing in artificial intelligence that have dealt the latest blow to the Nasdaq 100.

14 minutes ago in Business
Phys.org / Multifrequency observations explore radio galaxy 3C 111 and its jet

Using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), European astronomers have carried out multi-wavelength radio observations of a radio galaxy designated 3C 111. Results of the observational campaign, published March 24 on the arXiv ...

1 hour ago in Astronomy & Space
Dialog / Magnesium becomes a possible superconductor near the 2D limit

Magnesium is a common chemical element, an alkaline earth metal, which is highly chemically reactive and is very light (even lighter than aluminum). Magnesium is abundant in plants and minerals and plays a role in human physiology ...

1 hour ago in Physics
Phys.org / Ancient tombs in Anatolia suggest reverence for youth preceded elite burials

University College London, the University of Central Lancashire, Ege University, and other institutions have discovered that radical inequality existed in burial practices among teenagers in Early Bronze Age Anatolia, predating ...

3 hours ago in Other Sciences
Medical Xpress / Low levels of a single enzyme influence pathway to malignancy in colorectal cancer, scientists find

The transformation of healthy cells into invasive colorectal tumors is an extraordinarily complex process involving numerous molecular mechanisms, according to cancer biologists in China who have discovered that low levels ...

3 hours ago in Oncology & Cancer
Dialog / Revolutionizing 3D vision: How miniaturized snapshot polarization imaging is transforming depth sensing

Capturing precise 3D details with a single camera has long been a challenge. Traditional methods often require complex dual-camera setups or specialized lighting conditions that are impractical for real-world applications. ...

2 hours ago in Physics