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Metabolic brain boost revives memory in Alzheimer’s mice : Shots

Metabolic brain boost revives memory in Alzheimer’s mice : Shots

Craig Fedirighi

Aging and Alzheimer’s leave the brain starved of energy. Now scientists think they’ve found a way to aid the brain’s ...

Female NHS consultants are closing the ‘gender promotion gap’ | Gender pay gap

Female NHS consultants are closing the ‘gender promotion gap’ | Gender pay gap

Addrew Shawn

The number of women becoming hospital consultants has jumped dramatically, narrowing the “gender promotion gap” with men, researchers have found. ...

China’s electric car race is becoming all about semiconductors

China’s electric car race is becoming all about semiconductors

Ev Richard

Shaoqing Ren, vice president, autonomous driving development, at Nio speaks about the electric company’s 5nm chip at its tech day ...

UN nuclear watchdog chief pushes back on Moscow’s calls for objectivity after Kursk plant visit

UN nuclear watchdog chief pushes back on Moscow’s calls for objectivity after Kursk plant visit

Albert Wagner

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi holds a press conference on the opening day of ...

The peak interest rate era is over. Here’s what investors are watching

The peak interest rate era is over. Here’s what investors are watching

Lawrence Booth

A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Aug. 23, 2024. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | ...

Q&A: Author Clare Hammond reveals how railways made and broke Myanmar

Q&A: Author Clare Hammond reveals how railways made and broke Myanmar

Heather Blacksmith

BANGKOK — For three months in 2016, a British journalist working in Myanmar traveled across the Southeast Asian country on ...

A new MIT study shows flying gets safer by the decade

A new MIT study shows flying gets safer by the decade

Bob Elliott

Airfare, departure times, flight length — these are the usual considerations for travelers who want to book a flight. But ...

Dollar edges to two-week high vs euro as US payroll data looms

Dollar edges to two-week high vs euro as US payroll data looms

Mickey Vernon

The dollar climbed to a two-week top against the euro on Monday as traders pared bets for aggressive policy easing ...

Boeing’s Starliner started making a repeating ‘pulsing’ sound yesterday

Boeing’s Starliner started making a repeating ‘pulsing’ sound yesterday

John Ray

US astronaut Barry Wilmore called NASA ground crew on Saturday, asking for help with a repetitive knocking sound that was ...

Large-scale polio vaccinations begin in war-ravaged Gaza after first case in 25 years

Large-scale polio vaccinations begin in war-ravaged Gaza after first case in 25 years

Craig Fedirighi

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Palestinian health authorities and United Nations agencies on Sunday began a large-scale campaign of vaccinations ...