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3 Ways ProgenyHealth Can Transform Maternity and Infant Health, Claims Management
Pregnancy and NICU admissions are among the most complex areas in healthcare. A new report from ProgenyHealth highlights how the company can work with Medicaid and commercial health plans to uncover insights and hidden risks critical to improving maternal and infant care and reducing costs.
Sabyasachi Sen honored for outstanding contributions to glass science
Indian American UC Davis professor receives 2026 George W. Morey Award from the American Ceramic Society.
Jared Goff Makes Stunning Leap in NFL Quarterback Rankings
Detroit Lions QB Jared Goff takes the No. 1 spot in CBS Sports' Week 8 NFL quarterback power rankings, ahead of Josh Allen and Joe Burrow.
Why Is Automatic Data Processing (ADP) Expanding Its Small Business Payroll Reach?
Automatic Data Processing (NasdaqGS:ADP) and PNC Bank announced a new integrated payroll and HR solution for small businesses. The partnership embeds ADP payroll and HR tools directly into PNC’s digital banking platform for business clients. Small enterprises using PNC’s online banking are expected to access payroll, HR and cash management functions within a single interface. The ADP and PNC embedded payroll launch highlights how integrated finance and HR platforms are reshaping small...
Penn State vs. Purdue: Game Preview
The Nittany Lions are still seeking their first conference win as they welcome Purdue on Halloween. Penn State (3-4, 0-4) vs. Purdue (3-4, 2-2) Kickoff: 4:15 p.m., Beaver Stadium, State College, PA The Betting Line: Penn State -7.5 (Fanduel) TV: BTN, 4:15 p.m., Chris Vosters (play-by-play), Anthony Herron (analyst), Dannie Rogers (sideline) Weather: Matt Campbell: PENN STATE RECORD: 3-4, […]
The Daily Mauling: 10/29/26
Kansas Jayhawks News Michael Swain of 247 wrote about Lance Leipold’s sudden aggressiveness on 4th down against Baylor. I know the question has been raised here as to whether Leipold is the guy who makes these types of in-game decisions. It certainly sounds as though he has final say Also on the topic of playcalling, […]
Ria Health Brings 24/7 Peer Support to Virtual Alcohol Treatment Through Partnership with CHESS Health
Patients in all 50 states now have round-the-clock access to peers, community and crisis support through the Connections app, extending care far beyond the scheduled visitSan Francisco, CA, Oct. 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cravings, stress and isolation don’t keep office hours. Ria Health, the nationwide telehealth provider of alcohol use disorder treatment, is making sure its patients never face those moments alone. Through a new partnership with CHESS Health, every Ria Health patient now has
The cost of healthcare is hitting America where it hurts: The wallet
This article first appeared on KFF Health News and is republished here with permission. Bill McAdams, a 45-year-old travel nurse from Holiday, Florida, was uninsured last year when he experienced a stroke. He hadn’t been able to afford his agency’s health plan, which would have cost $3,600 monthly to cover him and his wife. The […]
Business Brief: Columbus Realtors recognized at state convention
Two Columbus Realtors were recognized during the Mississippi Realtors Annual Convention and Expo this month.
Computerized clairvoyance: psychics push back against AI-generated readings
Human practitioners warn computer-generated offerings lack the empathy and connection central to divination
Eating lunch at your desk? Telling your colleagues about your weekend? Gen Z thinks you’re the ones being weird at work.
From iced coffee to office small talk, Gen Z workers are questioning traditional workplace etiquette — and redefining what it means to be professional.
Hayden Panettiere death investigation closed by police in South Carolina
(CNN) — Police in South Carolina closed the investigation into actress Hayden Panettiere’s death after it was determined she died of an accidental drug overdose, the Greenville police department said
Scientists Ran 100,000 Simulations of Comets Striking Earth. The Results Are a Surprise.
“A one-in-a-million occurrence.”
Stop Human Trafficking Coalition hosts third annual conference
“If you're witnessing it, you need to make that 911 call," Kauffman, the executive director for the coalition, said.
Preview: Bruins continue their road trip in St. Louis
Home of the giant arch. But just one arch, two arches means McDonald’s.
Tennessee Titans news: Internal progress must be made vs. Bengals
The Tennessee Titans are getting ready to play their Week 8 matchup against the Cincinnati Bengals.
Phillies' rotation is set, but they can't procrastinate on adding depth
Late-season injuries left the Phillies searching for innings in back-to-back years. Four possible additions could keep them from scrambling again.
Bicycle Therapeutics Reports Recent Business Progress and Third Quarter 2026 Financial Results
CAMBRIDGE, England & BOSTON, October 29, 2026--Bicycle Therapeutics plc (NASDAQ: BCYC), a pharmaceutical company pioneering a new and differentiated class of therapeutics based on its proprietary bicyclic peptide (Bicycle®) technology, today reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2026, and provided recent corporate updates.
Advancing SAP Lakehouse and New Data Fabric Innovations in SAP Business Data Cloud for the Autonomous Enterprise
Explore the new lakehouse and business data fabric capabilities that will help enterprises build AI agents act with greater autonomy.
4 Indian-Origin Science Communicators Win Schmidt Awards 2026
4 Indian-origin science communicators win Schmidt Awards 2026 in US. Learn about Aatish Bhatia, Harini Bhat, Anand Varma & Rupsa Chakraborty.
Trump and Obama trade barbs on campaign trail in final days before midterm election
Former president says ‘these are not serious people’ as Trump holds rallies for Republican candidates
Less than 42 minutes of bright daylight linked to higher dementia risk
Getting more daylight could be linked to a surprisingly powerful benefit for brain health. In a study of more than 87,000 adults, researchers found that higher daytime light exposure was associated with a 16% lower risk of dementia, with longer exposure to bright light linked to even greater reductions. Remarkably, getting less than 42 minutes of bright daylight daily was a stronger predictor of dementia than six established risk factors.
Iraqi court hands down prison terms to 2 politicians and an oil official in graft case
BAGHDAD (AP) — An Iraqi court sentenced two prominent politicians and the head of a state-run enterprise responsible for distributing oil products to prison sentences in a corruption case, officials announced Thursday.
Alaska's governor orders investigation after NYT report on alleged Dem-linked Senate election scheme
Following a New York Times report on an alleged Democrat-linked scheme involving the state's U.S. Senate contest, Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy, a Republican, ordered an investigation.
Research report: The prince and the scientists
A commentary in EMBO Reports argues that scientific leadership is a distinct, neglected skill and that institutions should be managed as ecosystems built on trust.
An AI Breakthrough Has Made Decades of Computer Science Research ‘Irrelevant’
Anthropic and OpenAI say they’ve disproved a key tenet of computer science. Researchers are struggling with the fall but also feel like “overexcited bunnies” as they look at new questions to explore.
New simulation of the universe shows the first 2 billion years after the Big Bang play out in stunning detail
A new program aims to help scientists figure out how the ingredients of the universe formed early galaxies, which lit up the cosmos after a "dark age."
BTIG cuts Flutter Entertainment stock price target on international headwinds
BTIG cuts Flutter Entertainment stock price target on international headwinds
Jones County welcomes new mental health liaison
Emma Smith, who works for Foundation 2 Crisis Services, is Jones County’s first mental health liaison. She’ll respond to mental health-related 911 calls, follow up with people who have mental health needs, collaborate with school resource officers and supplement the mental health work done by county law enforcement.
Kim Kardashian’s Political Future Depends on Two Big Priorities
Kim Kardashian has opened up about her political ambitions, suggesting that a move into politics may still be a long way off. According to a report, the reality TV star wants to pass the bar exam and ...
Support Hubs Help New Researchers Break Through Bottlenecks at Big Science Facilities
A formative evaluation of a Horizon Europe project finds that dedicated support hubs significantly raise the odds that new researchers clear technical feasibility checks at European research infrastructures, while a downstream gap between laboratory validation and industrial
With new digital dashboard, Morrisey promises to move at ‘the speed of business’
West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey launched a new digital dashboard that offers a one-stop shop for businesses applying for permits. The system, which had a soft launch Oct. 1, pulls together permit applications from 13 different agencies. It will also include a fast-track application process. The One Stop Shop Permitting Portal is part of the Speed to Build initiative.
37 Interactive Entertainment Network Technology Group: Q3 sales grew, but launch spending and investment losses drove a sharp adjusted-profit decline
Q3 revenue rose YoY and QoQ, led by strategy, casual and overseas growth, but adjusted profit fell sharply as new-game promotion costs were front-loaded. A Zhipu-linked investment loss also weighed on reported earnings.Original document: 37 Interactive Entertainment Network Technology Group Co., Lt…
Wisconsin price checks cited in federal lawsuit against Dollar General
No store in the Madison area is specifically mentioned in the lawsuit, which accuses the retail giant of systemic pricing inaccuracies and overcharges.
Owensboro business asking community for help ID’ing robbery thief
A $1,000 reward is being offered for any information that leads to an arrest.
Jen Walker, Full Strength Physical Therapy top Chamber ALX's 2026 Best in Business awards
A committee of past winners read 58 applications and picked 36 finalists in six categories, according to remarks at Wednesday's ceremony
Nestlé and BirdLife Europe & Central Asia partner to measure how regenerative agriculture practices support biodiversity
A science-led collaboration will use farmland birds as trusted indicators of biodiversity.
Only about half of social science findings held up when retested, major replication project finds
Psychology’s replication problems drew wide attention after 2015. A new study in Nature suggests the challenge is not unique to psychology: across economics, education, business, sociology, and political science, success rates were similar.
Column: Poll-dancing Michigan politics
As this is written, we’re on the home stretch for the Nov. 3 midterm election, and I’m looking forward to an end to the endless texts and television commercials if less than enthusiastic about who the polls say will wind up crossing the thr…
‘She could have gotten away with’ murder: The dangerous science behind the Queen of Crime
New explorations reveal the early education and adventures of bestselling author Agatha Christie, who did more than dip her toe in the world of science.
Trump administration kills science ed program named for Lou Stokes; Rep. Shontel Brown appeals
U.S. Rep. Shontel Brown wants the Justice Department to provide the evidence it used to support canceling several National Science Foundation programs including one named after former Rep. Louis Stokes of Cleveland
Liability for clinical AI
Aligning accountability with clinical authority to protect patients and support responsible innovation. Learn more.
'Out of control' healthcare costs and too few solutions worry Northeast Ohio voters
Rising healthcare costs are a top concern for voters. Will it influence how they vote this election?
Georgia is single-handedly shifting the conversation on Black women in politics
It’s a milestone years in the making, backed by major efforts to organize and register voters.
Today’s horoscope: Taurus - Avoid costly entertainment (Oct. 29, 2026)
Celebrities born on this day: Ben Foster, 46; Gabrielle Union, 54; Winona Ryder, 55; Richard Dreyfuss, 79.
Street artist Barry McGee brings color and community to Jeffrey Deitch
Barry McGee, the celebrated graffiti artist who caused an uproar when his pop-up installation at a 99 Cents Only Store on Wilshire Boulevard drew a wild crowd, is bringing his street art to Jeffrey Deitch gallery.
Television Q&A: Why do dogs get barking mad at 'The Traitors'?
You have questions. I have some answers. Q: My wife and I started watching “The Traitors” but had to stop after two episodes. There is a whistle during the show
'Music Man' review: Revival isn't up to CTG standards
A non-Equity national tour of Meredith Willson's 'The Music Man,' directed by Matt Lenz, opens at the Ahmanson Theatre.
Television Q&A: Why do dogs get barking mad at 'The Traitors'?
You have questions. I have some answers. Q: My wife and I started watching “The Traitors” but had to stop after two episodes. There is a whistle during the show
How Ireland became Hollywood's latest hub for global filming
Ireland, with its storytelling tradition, infrastructure, experienced crews, lower labor costs and competitive tax incentives, has become a major filming destination for American films, TV series and even game shows as movie and TV productions leave Los Angeles to film elsewhere.
Do You Still Need Your Antidepressant? What to Know Before You Stop
Do you have to take antidepressants forever? The answer isn’t the same for everyone, explains psychiatric medication expert Jane Sundberg, PharmD, BCPP of University of Rochester Medicine.
Pens Points: Mammoth Sighting
It was a much needed four day break for a battered Pittsburgh Penguins team, but now the schedule resumes and it wastes no time throwing the team right back into the fight with another matchup against the Utah Mammoth, the same team that just beat up on the Penguins 11 days ago to close out […]
MARIA BARTIMORO TO HOST AMERICA BUSINESS FORUM 2026
America Business Forum today announced that Maria Bartiromo will serve as Host of America Business Forum 2026, taking place December 16-17 at Kaseya Center in Miami. Across two days, Bartiromo will guide the conversations on the forum's main stage, before a live arena audience and a global broadcast.
Ice cream business new to Aiken coming to the Southside. Where will it be located?
AIKEN — Work has begun on the Southside to turn a former barbershop into an ice cream business. Stone Cold Creamery’s first location here will be in the shopping center that Target anchors on Whiskey ...
Patrick’s Politics: You can’t afford to vote Republican
Rising inflation and sky-high gas prices. Blatant mismanagement of foreign policy. A fading president losing his grip on reality. These were all attacks used by Republicans against former President…
A golden age of science is coming
It’s almost hard to remember, but just a few years ago, a lot of very smart people thought that science was in terminal decline. Respected researchers were writing papers with titles like “Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?”, “Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time”, and “Slowed canonical progress in large fields of science”. In 1996, science writer John Horgan even published a book called The End Of Science: Facing The Limits Of Knowledge In The Twilight Of The Scientific Age. The fundamental idea was that the Universe only has so many insights to discover, and that we’ve picked the low-hanging fruit. It was the idea that Joseph-Louis Lagrange expressed when he said that “we cannot find more than once a system of the world to establish.” As the big ideas and the simple ideas get mined out, we’re forced to throw ever more brains at the mysteries of nature just to keep scientific progress going at a fraction of its old pace: It looked like science was hitting a wall. Then along came AI. It’s far too early to tell how much AI will eventually speed up the growth of total factor productivity. But already we can see signs of a speedup in science. Anthropic Founder Jack Clark assembled some of the hopeful data points in a recent lecture: [ Dror Poleg@drorpoleg "If you pick different parts of science, you see the same pattern show up: Progress is accelerating, and it has started to accelerate in the last two years." Jack Clark @jackclarkSF I’m speaking at the IMF in an hour about the singularity and why I believe it has begun and the choices we'll need to make. Watch live here: https://t.co/Hj9HzcXx5h 6:08 PM · Oct 18, 2026 · 21.2K Views 2 Replies · 10 Reposts · 123 Likes ](https://x.com/drorpoleg/status/2111882070376980529) Anthropic is accelerating its investment into drug discovery, and is already announcing some impressive preliminary results: [ BioTender@Junioryu136689 BREAKING: Anthropic unveils early results from six Claude-powered drug development collaborations. • 70% shorter CAR-T signaling domain • ~35,000 antibody designs • >10× tighter antibody binding • 89% less batch-record review time Still largely preclinical. Anthropic @AnthropicAI Over the past few months, Anthropic scientists have engaged in deep research partnerships with six organizations developing new medicines. We've also begun drug discovery efforts of our own. In doing so, we’ve learned much more about how Claude can support the many stages of 9:43 PM · Oct 27, 2026 · 11.2K Views 3 Replies · 24 Reposts · 205 Likes ](https://x.com/Junioryu136689/status/2115197821150495150) Claude also appears to be enabling rapid progress toward a treatment for food allergies. OpenAI, meanwhile, announced a possible breakthrough treatment for neurodegenerative disease. Meanwhile, Google Cloud Chief Scientist Pushmeet Kohli has a list of recent scientific advances that have been enabled by its new Gemini model, including breakthroughs in nuclear fusion reactor design, rare disease research, and quantum computing: [ Pushmeet Kohli@pushmeet Gemini 4 Argon is a step change in model performance. In recent weeks, it has had a transformative impact on the Science projects in our team at @GoogleDeepMind and our external collaborators, and helped make a number of remarkable advances across scientific disciplines. 🧵👇 4:47 PM · Oct 13, 2026 · 36.5K Views 8 Replies · 41 Reposts · 497 Likes ](https://x.com/pushmeet/status/2110049807385702623) But as cool as these stories sound, they’re just very minor, preliminary efforts. There are a number of reasons to think that AI is going to propel us into a golden age of scientific discovery. That age might not last forever — AI might still run into diminishing returns eventually. But the next few decades are probably going to be an absolutely amazing time for human science. The number of “effective researchers” is no longer limited The most important input into science is scientists themselves. Until this year, that meant human brains — talented, highly trained human brains. The number of trained human brains could be increased by sending more people to grad school, but only to a point — the smartest people tend to be sent into the hardest research fields first, and if you 10x the number of researchers, the average quality will go down. This constraint was already starting to bite, as Ekerdt and Wu argued in 2024: We argue that a substantial portion of the downward historical trend in U.S. research productivity is a composition effect resulting from self-selection in researcher ability and the dramatic expansion of the research sector…[W]e find that this composition effect has lowered average researcher ability by between 37% and 53%[.] And of course, low fertility was making the problem worse, because fewer children meant fewer people who were able to become future scientists. AI just blows up this constraint completely. If an AI agent can function as an autonomous researcher, there’s no constraint on the number of researchers in the world — you can just build more of them, by building more computer chips and data centers that enable the running of more AI agents. Whether or not massive hordes of agents can collaborate to solve individual problems much faster, increasing the number of agents allows them to tackle many different research questions in parallel. What’s more, these AI “researchers” can be trained incredibly quickly compared to human beings. A human scientist takes decades to train, and more years to reach the frontier of their research field by diligent reading and conversation. This is the “burden of knowledge”, and it’s commonly believed to be one reason ideas have been getting harder to find — by the time human scientists can get up to speed, they’re often so old that their ideas are no longer novel. AI just annihilates this constraint — it can assimilate the entire literature and reach the frontier of research extremely quickly, and it can also tell human scientists where the frontier lies without forcing them to discover that for themselves. It can also pivot to new research directions more easily than humans can. And there’s also a self-reinforcing economic cycle here. Because scientific advances enable higher GDP, they enable more resources to be invested into the creation of yet more electronic “scientists”. Now that doesn’t mean the amount of scientific research goes to infinity — there may still be some essential bottleneck task that human researchers are still needed to perform. There are some indications that AI’s progress on open-ended conceptual research tasks is slower than in other dimensions, and it may be that humans are still needed to provide some of this long-term conceptual thinking. I’d bet against this being true for much longer, but it might be true for a long time. Even in this most “pessimistic” case, though, the amount of effective capital that scientists can use to leverage their work just went up by a lot. AI eliminates the theory bottleneck Science proceeds by an iterative process of theory and experiment. The theory part of that cycle is typically short, but non-trivial — it took a couple of years after the blackbody radiation spectrum was observed for Max Planck to come up with the quantum hypothesis to explain it, and decades longer before quantum theory as we now know it was created. It took about a year for Watson and Crick to figure out the shape of DNA after the requisite data was gathered. AI will basically eliminate the theory bottleneck entirely — or at least shorten the turnaround time between experiment and theory by an order of magnitude. AI is an absolute beast at math. Recently, an OpenAI model solved some of the most important open problems in computer science, math, and theoretical physics, and no one even batted an eyebrow because that sort of triumph is becoming increasingly commonplace. One of those solutions was a proof that the Standard Model of Particle Physics could be mathematically well-defined — a problem that human theorists had so far been unable to tackle. Not all research relies equally on theory, but understanding novel experimental results almost always involves some important component of either mathematical or spatial reasoning. That part of the task has now been made much, much faster. And on top of that, science is now open to a greater number of humans who aren’t naturally good at theorizing. AI can read the whole literature Much of the work of human scientists involves reading and understanding endless amounts of papers and going to endless conferences and seminars. The purpose of that work is to understand the existing scientific literature. Understanding the literature allows scientists to do the following things: Come up with new ideas for hypotheses to test Avoid doing research that someone else has already done Synthesize approaches from different areas or fields AI can reduce this effort to almost zero. Consider this excerpt from OpenAI’s blog post about their new research into neurodegenerative disease: The team divided the analysis among thousands of AI agents powered by GPT‑Rosalind, an approach we call distributed biological reasoning. The agents examined a whole-brain CRISPR atlas…a dataset showing how gene disruptions affect different types of cells across the mouse brain. Each agent investigated a gene disruption, analyzed cellular responses, searched scientific literature, and proposed explanations for the results. Their reports were combined into a reasoning atlas linking genes, cellular effects, relevant publications, and possible biological mechanisms. The research team estimated that comparable human analysis and literature review, conducted one perturbation at a time, would take months to a year. The agents reproduced findings from human analyses while uncovering additional leads. Their assessments of novelty and scientific value also aligned with judgments from blinded human experts. These findings help prioritize further experiments needed to test the proposed biological mechanisms. Some of these insights point to new leads for understanding brain disease. [emphasis mine] This is one case in which parallel work by a large number of agents really does make a huge difference: [ Haider.@haider1 this is actually insane openai deployed thousands of GPT-Rosalind agents to analyze millions of mouse brain cells in 32 minutes, work that could take human researchers months to a year also the agents uncovered new leads for brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's OpenAI @OpenAI GPT-Rosalind surfaced a new lead for drug discovery: could restoring cholesterol transport protect neurons from degeneration? DCTN1 is a gene linked to Perry syndrome, a rare neurodegenerative disorder. In mouse-brain data, disrupting it increased expression of genes involved in 2:41 PM · Oct 21, 2026 · 51.5K Views 26 Replies · 95 Reposts · 1.26K Likes ](https://x.com/haider1/status/2112917197903540516) Not only does instantaneous literature review vastly speed up the research process, but it allows AI to make novel conceptual leaps from combining approaches from wildly different fields of research. AI regularly does this in math research, combining results, approaches, and theorems from far-flung places that no human mathematician would have thought to combine. It can do it in science, too. Much of scientific innovation, historically, has been “recombinant” innovation — scientists applying insights from one field to another. With AI, essentially all research is now cross-disciplinary — AI can read not just the literature on a particular subject, but the literature on a million other subjects that might have produced useful techniques or insights for the problem at hand. Superscience So far, all of the factors I’ve listed are ways that AI can speed up science as it’s already done. I’ve basically described how AI can send gigantic hordes of superhumanly fast, superhumanly well-read, superhumanly mathematically gifted researchers to re-accelerate scientific discovery. But it’s also possible that AI will enable types of discovery — and ways of understanding the natural world — that no network of humans, no matter how large or how brilliant it was or how long it had to work, would ever be able to discover. In a post back in July, I wrote about how that might work: What if there are lots of…aspects of the Universe that [are] too complex to understand in terms of simple laws, but not so complex that they just dissolve into unknowable chaos? It’s possible that we can reliably control these complex phenomena with AI, even if we never reduce them to the kind of principles that we can teach a grad student in a textbook… Another way of saying this is that there may be laws of the universe that humans can’t understand but AI can. I call these “cloud laws” — causal regularities that can be exploited by technology, but which are too diffuse and complex for an individual human being to either intuit or communicate… Perhaps social sciences like economics, sociology, and political science obey similarly complex regularities, and AI can help us find them. Perhaps there are physical processes — plasma, or topological materials, or aerial turbulence, etc. — that obey cloud laws instead of chaos?… [H]uman collaboration is bottlenecked — it’s limited by our ability to intuit patterns at an individual level, and to communicate these patterns from one individual to another. AI, being a computer, just doesn’t have this sort of limitation; it can work with vast, diffuse patterns without having to break them into pieces or simplify them in order to compress them into the tiny pipelines of person-to-person explanation… If much of the Universe turns out to be ruled by cloud laws, we could be on the precipice of a scientific renaissance. In order to discover cloud laws, AI will need huge amounts of data about the natural world. AI figured out human speech by assimilating essentially all of the text humans have ever written. If it’s going to figure out hidden patterns in biology, neuroscience, materials science, etc., it’s going to need similarly massive amounts of data from physical instruments. That data will be far, far more than humans — individually or collectively — would be able to parse, label, characterize, or model. But AI was built to do this. If scientists simply build huge arrays of sensors to measure complex phenomena like the brain, the cell, the economy, etc., they may be able to feed this flood of data to AI directly and bypass human cognitive intermediation entirely. AI would then learn about the world directly, and it might learn things that humans never could. This “superscience”, if you want to call it that, would actually go beyond the kind of science humans have done heretofore. Many of the technologies it yielded would be beyond human comprehension — indistinguishable from magic. But to the AIs, they would make perfect scientific sense. In any case, it seems clear that the scientific slowdown that threatened human progress will now be delayed — at least for a while. Unless humans have somehow found most of the actual exploitable regularities in our Universe, we’re about to enter a new golden age of science. Subscribe Share
Providence investment policy should be based on fiduciary principles, not politics
City investments are not the appropriate instrument for conducting foreign policy, writes the head of the Rhode Island–Israel Collaborative, who urges Providence voters to reject Question 7, the Human Rights Divestment Ordinance.
Pirates need to add a veteran starting pitcher
The Bucs have a good rotation. It still needs a veteran arm, however.
Change or continuity? Benson and James battle down stretch run for governor’s office
The successor to term-limited Gov. Gretchen Whitmer could chart a new course on education, economic development and a range of other issues, though much will depend on which party controls the Legislature.
Midterms' $11.6B ad spend: more than a brawl, it's a heist
These midterms, which mercifully conclude on Tuesday, are now the most expensive election cycle in history.
Numbers game
Numbers game. A political cartoon by Bob Whitmore about the importance of voting in the 2026 elections.
Like 'The Matrix,' but real: Google's Genie 4 brings science fiction to life
Google DeepMind unveils AI capable of generating photorealistic, interactive 3D worlds with sound, dialogue and realistic physics, as Israeli rival Decart draws attention amid reports of a potential $7 billion Amazon acquisition
Cash for coverage becomes workplace insurance option
Employer defined premium contributions are gaining popularity as ACA premiums spike.
2026-27 High School Confidential: On the road again
FFA Nationals in Indianapolis, a field trip to Chicago, a band performance in St. Louis ... and much, much more.
Top U.S. Health Official Backed a Medication Policy Shift That Benefited a Company She Has Stock In
Alicia Jackson endorsed a key FDA policy change on hormone replacement therapies while holding at least $115,000 in stock in a company providing access to menopause treatments. Ethics experts called her endorsement an “obvious conflict of interest.”
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, historic Mexican politician and former presidential candidate, dies at 92
An undisputed leader of the Mexican left, Cárdenas played a pivotal role in Mexico’s democratization.
Things to do: Oct. 29-Nov. 4
HUNTINGTON — Several chances to see live music, as well as meet authors and share your own creations, are on tap this week. Here are events to look out for.
Biss criticizes government inertia in NU Political Union town hall
Former Mayor Daniel Biss, the Democratic nominee for Illinois’ 9th Congressional District, criticized governmental stagnation in a town hall hosted by the Northwestern Political Union on Wednesday. Days before the Nov. 3 midterm elections, Biss told audience members that lawmakers must move beyond performatively asserting their political stances and instead shift toward passing realistic legislation...
Democrats in striking distance: New CNN polls in four states highlight party’s path to Senate majority
CNN polling across four key Senate races in the final days of the midterm campaign finds Democrats well-positioned in Michigan and Texas, with no clear leader in the races in Maine or Kansas.
NC House race breaks national spending records + Asian voter turnout rises in NC
Read Under the Dome for the latest politics news daily.
CLOG's 'Annie' coming to the Clay Center; 'Les Misérables' auditions slated
CHARLESTON — The Charleston Light Opera Guild and the Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences of West Virginia will co-present the beloved Broadway musical “Annie” Friday and next weekend
Are you facing rising health care costs in 2027? We want to hear from you.
Health insurance premiums and costs are rising for millions of Americans again starting in January. We want to know how your lives will be impacted.
Rehabilitation hospital proposed for Manor Township
A one-story, 19,897-square-foot rehabilitation hospital with 24 beds has been proposed for the corner of Centerville and Royal roads.
Rock Hill isn’t the same city Trump visited a decade ago. Just look at the venue
A change in location is more than logistics. It shows the resilience of a community that is redefining its downtown corridor, again.
‘That goes beyond party’: Democrat superintendent candidate Jennettie Marshall talks priorities, politics
The Oklahoma general election is days away, and education issues are at the top of voters’ minds. StateImpact’s Beth Wallis sat down with the Democratic nominee for state superintendent, Jennettie Marshall. Marshall is a pastor and former Tulsa Public Schools board member.
Outside groups spend millions on Georgia legislative races
Most of the spending is concentrated in suburban districts held by Republican incumbents — the kind of seats Democrats need to flip to win control of the state House.
Alaska governor orders investigation into Democrat’s Senate campaign
The probe follows a New York Times report about efforts by aides to Mary Peltola to recruit an outside candidate with a name similar to her Republican rival.
Health Care Trade Groups Leaning Right
Yet, the most recent filings by the political action committees of the American Hospital Association, AHIP (America’s Health Insurance Plans), the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers Association and the American Medical Association reveal the industry is continuing to provide financial support for Republican incumbents. They are still funding the party that’s kicking them in the teeth.
St. Catherine’s Victorian Christmas Faire returns Nov. 6 and 7
The annual Victorian Christmas Faire is just around the corner at Grass Valley’s Emmanuel Episcopal Church.
Intel Readies "Moon Lake" and "Wildcat Lake Refresh" Built on 18A Node
Intel is reportedly preparing two new processor SKUs focused on extremely low-power computing. The first, called "Moon Lake," is designed as a pure low-power efficiency (LPE) core SoC. The "Moon Lake" generation features no P-Cores and up to 4 "Darkmont" LPE-Cores on the Intel 18A die. Unlike...
Health champions
Dr. Terri Sabella, the CEO of North Olympic Healthcare Network of Port Angeles, helped award the 24th Legislative District’s state delegation the Community Health Champion awards on Wednesday.
Helpers needed for annual 'Santa's Shoppe' event
17 years ago, Trinity Church in Nevada City hosted an event for young children that let them come shop for gifts for their family members. The event quickly outgrew that
Politicians have failed to tackle health care affordability. It’s now voters’ rallying cry
As costs surge, voters are embracing more radical solutions to the crisis.
'That goes beyond party': Democrat superintendent candidate Jennettie Marshall talks priorities, politics
The Oklahoma general election is days away, and education issues are at the top of voters' minds. StateImpact's Beth Wallis sat down with the Democratic nominee for state superintendent, Jennettie Marshall. Marshall is a pastor and former Tulsa Public Schools board member.
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Global Health & WASH
The US National Institutes of Health reopened its center and program-project machinery in force. NIGMS is funding Collaborative Program Grants for interdisciplinary teams, NIAID opened both its Immune Tolerance Network and a next-generation R&D call, the NCI runs its Carcinogen Hazard Assessment Monographs program, the National Library of Medicine is funding institutional training in biomedical AI and data science, and NIH reopened its Centers for AIDS Research. The tell: these pay for standing centers and multi-year consortia at institutions with an existing funded research base, not one-off projects, so the fit is an established US research institution, not a single investigator. Disease-specific foundations are again funding the researcher, not just the research. The Parkinson’s Foundation opened its Paul Oreffice Innovations in Care Award and the National Ataxia Foundation its Research Seed Money Grant. The tell, the same one we flagged last cycle, is a named early-career or seed award that builds a pipeline of scientists committed to one condition, so what wins is a researcher willing to specialize. The post-USAID global-health money is routing through a State Department program statement and multilateral innovation funds. The US Department of State’s Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy opened its Advancing Global Health Annual Program Statement, Grand Challenges Canada opened Nexa Lighthouse for climate and health innovation in Asia and the Pacific at USD $250,000 to $2,000,000, and CEPI opened a rolling call on vaccine-manufacturing analytics. The tell: the largest health money this cycle sits in a standing program statement and in staged innovation vehicles, not in a single bilateral grant. Total Estimated Funding Pool: ~$35.4M across discrete grants. (Separately, large national-formula envelopes not counted in this total: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy (GHSD).) This post is for paid subscribers. This helps support the time and effort it takes to curate and organize these opportunities. Subscribe To keep this accessible to everyone who needs it, we’re happy to offer pay what you can rates. You can find more details here. New opportunities: Paul Oreffice Innovations in Care Award, Parkinson’s Foundation. *New!* *Closing soon!* The Parkinson’s Foundation created the Paul Oreffice Innovations in Care Award to fund clinicians rethinking how people with Parkinson’s disease receive care. The Foundation is using pilot funding to move promising ideas into testable projects, backing work across four lanes: strengthening community clinician capability, redesigning care models, building patient-centered technologies, and defining the minimum clinical datasets that make better standards possible. It wants hypothesis-driven, clinically grounded projects that can generate evidence strong enough to attract further funding. By opening the door to clinicians at every career stage and strongly preferring projects that involve people with Parkinson’s in their design, the Foundation signals that it values practical, patient-shaped innovation over prestige. The strongest fits are US-licensed clinicians with a focus on Parkinson’s and an institutional home for applied care research. Geographies: united states. Who can apply: Clinicians of all career stages, from fellows to established faculty, who are licensed to care for patients in the United States and have a significant focus on Parkinson’s disease. Physicians must have completed a neurology residency (or justify how their training pathway benefits people with PD); allied health professionals must hold an advanced degree, typically a PhD. Fellows, those in mentored positions, and those within two years of starting an independent position require a mentor and a mentor support letter. The sponsoring institution’s grants office is the authorized recipient and funds are disbursed to the institution. Funding amount: Maximum of $200,000 over two years; up to three awards. Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Health; Innovation; Science & Technology. Deadline: November 1, 2026. Learn more and apply here. Design and Deliver the Next EIT Health Bootcamps, EIT Health. *New!* *Closing soon!* EIT Health is opening its call for consortia to design and deliver the next generation of its health start-up bootcamps, funding the curriculum, masterclasses, mentoring, and investor engagement that turn early health ventures into fundable companies. The organization is using these learning paths to strengthen Europe’s health innovation pipeline across digital health evidence, deep tech and AI commercialization, cross-border investment, and patient access. What EIT Health wants to back is not a single course but durable delivery capacity built by partners who span industry, education, and research. Requiring multi-country consortia and a revenue-sharing stake in the programs signals that EIT Health expects these bootcamps to outlast the grant. The strongest fits are established training providers, universities, and industry partners with proven reach into health entrepreneurs. Geographies: Europe. Who can apply: Consortia only (individuals cannot apply), comprising a minimum of two and a maximum of five independent legal entities. Partners must cover at least two sides of the Knowledge Triangle (industry, education, research), including at least one industry organisation, and at least two entities must be legally established in different Horizon Europe countries. Funding amount: Foundational Learning Path: up to EUR €112,000; Thematic Learning Paths: up to EUR €124,500 per path (up to four thematic projects); up to EUR €610,000 total EIT Health funding available under the call. Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Health; Innovation; Science & Technology; Economic Development & Livelihoods. Deadline: November 2, 2026. Learn more and apply here. Technology Transfer Offices & Entrepreneurship Support Call (Beyond the Lab: From Research to Venture), EIT Health. *New!* *Closing soon!* EIT Health is opening its Technology Transfer Offices and Entrepreneurship Support Call to fund consortia that will deliver the Beyond the Lab: From Research to Venture program for healthcare researchers. EIT Health is using the grant to build local capacity for turning laboratory science into incorporated start-ups, paying experienced technology transfer offices and entrepreneurship support providers to run masterclasses, structured mentoring, and a closing Pitch Day across two cohorts. It wants to back organizations that can walk researchers from discovery to company formation, not just teach theory. Requiring two transfer offices plus one venture-building provider signals that EIT Health values proven commercialization experience alongside academic reach. The strongest fits are European research-commercialization teams with a track record of moving health innovations toward investable ventures. Geographies: Europe. Who can apply: A consortium of two Technology Transfer Offices (representing higher education institutions or research organisations) and one Entrepreneurship Support Provider with demonstrated experience in venture building and start-up support. Applicants may apply for more than one learning path where they can demonstrate the required expertise and capacity for each. Funding amount: Up to EUR €77,000 in 2027 and up to EUR €77,000 in 2028 (up to EUR €154,000 total per consortium over two years). Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Health; Innovation; Science & Technology; Economic Development & Livelihoods. Deadline: November 2, 2026. Learn more and apply here. EIT Health RIS Country Representatives Call (2027-2028), EIT Health. *New!* *Closing soon!* EIT Health is seeking organizations to serve as Country Representatives across eleven Regional Innovation Scheme countries in central and eastern Europe for the 2027 to 2028 period. The money funds a national anchor in each country, an organization that maps the local health innovation ecosystem, connects startups and researchers to EIT Health programs, and builds the stakeholder relationships that let health ventures grow. EIT Health is backing local capacity rather than individual projects, which is why it accepts both single organizations and national consortia that span education, research, and industry. The requirement for co-financing signals that it wants representatives already embedded in their national systems. The strongest fits are established ecosystem builders with deep ties to health innovation stakeholders in one eligible country. Geographies: Croatia; Czech Republic; Estonia; Greece; Hungary; Latvia; Malta; Romania; Serbia; Slovenia; Turkey. Who can apply: Registered legal entities established in one of the eligible EIT RIS countries. Single organisations or national consortia may apply. Consortia must include at least two sides of the Knowledge Triangle (education, research and industry), and all consortium partners must be established in the same eligible country. Suitable applicants have demonstrated experience in healthcare innovation ecosystem development, innovation support and entrepreneurship, start-up acceleration, technology transfer, research and higher education, business support, and stakeholder engagement, with strong links to national innovation stakeholders. Funding amount: Up to EUR €182,000 per Country Representative (maximum funding per project); total call budget up to EUR €1,274,500; EIT Health funds up to 60% of total eligible project costs. Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Health; Innovation; Science & Technology; Economic Development & Livelihoods. Deadline: November 2, 2026. Learn more and apply here. Architects of Trust: Community-Driven Demand Creation for New TB Vaccines, Treatment Action Group (TAG). *New!* *Closing soon!* Treatment Action Group, with funding from Wellcome, is opening its Architects of Trust call to help communities prepare for the new tuberculosis vaccines now moving through late-stage trials. The money backs civil society and community-based organizations to raise awareness, surface local questions and concerns, and press policymakers toward equitable national rollout. By pairing each grantee with an advocacy mentor and running a strategy workshop alongside the Global TB Vaccine Forum, Treatment Action Group is building a durable advocacy bench rather than funding one-off outreach. The two-stage design, starting with a short expression of interest, signals that fit and community rootedness matter more than polished proposals. The strongest fits are locally trusted groups with real TB, immunization, or health advocacy experience and a committed project lead. Geographies: Brazil; Ethiopia; India; Indonesia; Kenya; Malawi; Mozambique; Nigeria; Peru; Philippines; South Africa; Tanzania; Vietnam; Zambia. Who can apply: National, subnational, or regional civil society organizations (CSOs) or community-based organizations based in one of the 14 eligible countries or in Eastern Europe/Central Asia regional networks, with experience in TB, immunization, or other health advocacy and in community engagement or policy advocacy; well integrated into stakeholder networks with membership or affiliation to other CSO or community networks; naming a dedicated project lead (’architect of trust’) who can attend the April 2027 Zaragoza forum in person; and holding (or committing to adopt) organizational policies on safeguarding (bullying, harassment, abuse, and harm), equity, diversity and inclusion, and legal compliance, research practice and governance. Funding amount: Grants of up to US$45,000 will be awarded to 8 CSO partners across 14 high-TB-burden countries plus regional networks in Eastern Europe and Central Asia; each grant funds 12 months of work. Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Health; Governance; Policy & Advocacy. Deadline: November 4, 2026. Learn more and apply here.
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Politics gone rogue
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