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After Congress approved President Donald Trump’s rescission package eliminating federal funding, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting voted to dissolve after 58 years, rather than continue to exist and potentially be “vulnerable to future political manipulation or misuse.” The shutdown leaves hundreds of local public TV and radio stations facing an Read more…

Scientists at Melbourne’s Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity are working on a Crispr-based treatment — delivered as a nasal spray or injection — that could stop influenza infections by targeting the virus’s RNA and disrupting its ability to replicate inside human cells. The approach uses the Cas13 enzyme, Read more…

A new working paper from researchers at the University of Hong Kong has found that Chinese graduate students who plagiarized more heavily in their master’s theses were significantly more likely to pursue careers in the civil service and to climb the ranks faster once inside. John Liu and co-authors analyzed Read more…