Day: January 2, 2025

President-elect Donald Trump sought to connect the New Orleans New Year’s Day terrorist attack to his tough-on-immigration doctrine weeks before he’s set to retake the White House — a sign that his stance on cross-border migration will include the flow of ideas and not just the physical movement of people.

Researchers from the Organoid group at the Hubrecht Institute have developed a new way to grow organoids. Organoids are tiny organs that are grown in the lab and mimic the original organ. The researchers were able to grow organoids using Invasin, a protein produced by bacteria.

An erroneous early Fox News report about the New Orleans terror attack is warping the political dialogue in the aftermath of the deadly rampage.

For all its flaws, “Saturday Night Live” used to consistently launch its cast members onto movie marquees. But changes in the film business have made that an impossibility in recent years. Nobody is becoming a movie star these days, except for a small handful of people. Even so, not enough of the NBC late-night staple has felt original or especially funny these days to warrant that kind of …

Chlorine plays an essential part in daily life, from keeping pools clean to preserving food. Now, a team of chemists at Rice University has developed a more environmentally friendly way to integrate chlorine into chemical building blocks for medications, plastics, pesticides and other essential products while reducing costs. This research was published in Nature Synthesis on Jan. 2.

Donald Trump and prominent Republicans have been working to blame the New Orleans truck attack that killed 15 people on New Year’s Eve on the border.

Just before Trump takes office, China has developed means to fight back. The nation has prohibited the export of dual-use products to 28 US defense contractors and classified 10 of them as “unreliable entities.”

President Joe Biden granted Liz Cheney the Presidential Citizens medal, prompting backlash from some of Donald Trump’s top supporters.

The 20 awards recipients include Americans who fought for marriage equality, an Army nurse during the Vietnam War, and a war correspondent.

Time to trade FaceTime for face time.