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Texas State Sen. Bryan Hughes, R-Mineola, one of the original sponsors of the Texas Heartbeat Act, is now the lead sponsor of a bill to clarify when a doctor can terminate a pregnancy to save the life of the mother. Eric Gay/AP hide caption toggle caption Eric Gay/AP Since abortion became nearly entirely illegal in Texas in 2021, the state has seen a significant rise in the number of women who die in pregnancy or after giving birth. A group of bipartisan lawmakers in the state wants to change that by clarifying the state’s abortion ban with a new law.…
Horizon Aircraft just made aviation history, becoming the first eVTOL to achieve a stable wing-borne flight transition using a fan-in-wing design with its “large-scale” Cavorite X7 demonstrator. The best part is that this particular aircraft is meant to be just that, a conventional aircraft – that just happens to be able to take off and land vertically like a helicopter.It works by having 14 fans embedded within the wings. Five per main wing with a pair in each forward canard. Horizon designed a clever patented mechanism that allows the wing surfaces to slide open for vertical lift from the battery-powered…
KJ Muldoon, who was born at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in August, reaches out to doctors after being treated for a rare genetic disorder using CRISPR technology. Chloe Dawson/Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia hide caption toggle caption Chloe Dawson/Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia For the first time, doctors have treated a baby born with a rare, life-threatening genetic disorder with a gene-editing therapy scientists tailored to specifically repair his unique mutation. The baby received three infusions containing billions of microscopic gene-editors that homed in on a mutation in his liver and appear to have corrected his defect. Doctors need to follow the…
When the last Ford Fiesta rolled off the production line in Cologne, Germany, in July 2023, it drastically altered the automobile industry. Now, less than two years later, there’stalk that the Fiesta is making a comeback – with one major change.Rather than making a traditional internal combustion comeback, the new model may launch as an EV. This is thanks to Ford’s expanding partnership with Volkswagen, which has already developed models like the Explorer EV and Capri based on VW’s ID.4 and ID.5.The rumors began after Martin Sanders, Volkswagen’s chief of sales and marketing, discussed the VW-Ford partnership with Auto Express.…
Residents of Marquette, a city in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, gathered outside Planned Parenthood to celebrate and thank staffers as they finished the last day of patient care on April 23. Bobby Anttila hide caption toggle caption Bobby Anttila On the last day of patient care at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Marquette, Mich., a port town on the shore of Lake Superior, dozens of people crowded into the parking lot and alley, holding pink homemade signs that read “Thank You!” and “Forever Grateful.” “Oh my god,” physician assistant Anna Rink gasped, as she and three other Planned Parenthood employees finally…
Overland Expo West kicked off in Arizona on Friday, and Jeep hit the ground hard with an all-new concept it calls the Awning and Rooftop Tent concept (ARTT). Okay, it’s not exactly a name that gets the butterflies fluttering around your stomach, but the concept excels well beyond its title, showing what a go-anywhere Wrangler pop-top micro-camper could look like, straight from the off-road gurus at Jeep’s own performance parts arm. And, not surprisingly, it looks better than the average Wrangler camper, coming complete with an oversized bed and interior access hatch. The ARTT hardware is designed to work quite…
Let’s talk about something I’ve been doing a deep dive on lately: A2 dairy. You may have heard it mentioned in passing, maybe during a conversation about food intolerance or inflammation. So what exactly makes A2 dairy stand out from your standard A1 dairy? Why should we even care about the difference? Is it just another health fad, or is there real scientific evidence behind it? If you’ve ever had digestive issues after drinking cow’s milk or felt like your favorite dairy products just don’t sit right with you, you might want to read on. A2 dairy could be the…
We’ve seen fungi being used to create useful new materials for construction, fire-retardant building insulation, and even 3D-printed batteries.One of the researchers behind that last doozy, Dr. Gustav Nyström, and his colleague Ashutosh Sinha from the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA) have cracked a whole new way to leverage the strange and magical properties of fungal mycelium. They’ve developed a new material that incorporates living cells, so it’s biodegradable and can help break down waste too. Oh, and you can eat it, if you’re curious like that.For this work, the researchers chose a particular strain of…
Summer has always been one of my favorite seasons. With an abundance of fresh produce at the farmer’s market, veggies in the garden, and summer family activities, it’s nearly perfect… Except for the bugs, poison ivy, and occasional sunburn! Since we moved to the south years ago, I get to enjoy even more warm, summer weather. And with it comes even more mosquitoes. Of course, homemade bug spray helps ward off most of the mosquitoes, and homemade sunscreen helps avoid the sunburn in the first place. Still, it seems that at some point, someone forgets one or the other and…
UK company CompoCloset is already known for portable toilets with particularly clean, boxy, white designs. Its latest promises to be the cleanest operator yet. A mashup of separating and auto-sealing toilet designs, the new S1 seeks to provide the best individual processing options for both urine and feces. The company calls it the world’s first separating/sealing toilet, and it looks like it could be just the ticket to the ultimate off-grid toileting experience. Auto-sealing toilets, which we recently dove into with the launch of the Wrappon Sunny, boast a simpler, cleaner way of dealing with waste when camping, boating or…