A calorie-restricted diet could slow down the aging that naturally happens in the brain as we get older, according to a new study of rhesus monkeys, and the findings could also be relevant to brain diseases such as Alzheimer's.

The National Weather Service is working to hire back hundreds of positions laid off or otherwise cut by the Trump administration, but it’s progressing at a snail’s pace, forcing many offices to continue to cope with vacancies that could affect winter forecasts.

The agency received permission in late July to add a total of 450 people after about 550 were cut by DOGE earlier this year. The decision to authorize new hires came after lawmakers and citizens expressed concerns about how the NWS cuts would impact public safety.

And what about fears that this marks the rise of techno-fascism? “I mean, we are funding companies that will operate non-democratic cities,” he says, shrugging. “And if you’re not into that you shouldn’t move there.”

In two years levying a 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million, it's funded bridge repairs, bolstered literacy programs and tackled a transportation deficit.

Conservatives warned of a mass exodus if the democratic socialist won, but experts, and property data, paint a very different picture

Signed contracts on Manhattan homes costing more than $4m increased in November compared with October, Fortune magazine reported, with the most expensive homes outperforming the overall market. And inventory in the “luxury market” fell by 16% in October compared with the previous year, suggesting that, actually, more people are committing to staying in New York.

Ukraine wants to make more of its own fiber-optic drones. Fedorenko complained that Russia receives huge supplies of fiber-optic cable from China, while Ukraine is getting little from the West.
“Unfortunately, we have to say that China is a stronger ally on this than the U.S. and Europe combined,” he said.

Of the $1.1 million his hotels and country clubs have collected from Republican candidates and committees this year, 80% is from entities Trump controls.

A number of accounts promoting a MAGA and America First agenda have been revealed as being located in Africa, Asia and Europe,

Users posing as rightwing Americans are operating internationally, per the platform’s transparency feature

We use data from the nationally representative (United States) High School and Beyond cohort, characterize fluoride exposure from drinking water across adolescence, adjust for confounders, and observe cognitive test performance in both secondary school and at age ~60. We find that children exposed to recommended levels of fluoride in drinking water exhibit modestly better cognition in secondary school, an advantage that is smaller and no longer statistically significant at age ~60.

The real 'world's first microprocessor' was a classified military secret for nearly 30 years.

The Carney government’s first budget does nothing to address the pressure point that is Old Age Security

Getting covid-19 for the first time slightly increased the risk of heart inflammation, blood clots and bleeding disorders among children, whereas being vaccinated against the virus was much safer and sometimes protective

Folks looking for evidence of SNAP recipients as welfare queens have no shortage of AI generated schlock to use as justification.

over two thirds of SNAP recipients are either children, elderly, or disabled. Of those able-bodied workers with at least one child who receive SNAP, a whopping 89 percent of them have jobs.

the net impact on employment seems to have been . . . nil. Among those who said AI had been implemented, about 80 per cent said there has been no impact on staffing levels as a result, while about 10 per cent reported an increase, and 10 per cent a decrease.