Health Care

Minnesota legislators begin discussion on potential adoption of laws allowing physician-assisted suicide, similar to other states.

The Minnesota Legislature began discussing on Thursday the question of whether or not the state should permit physician-assisted suicide. The House health committee made a rare decision to hold a hearing for the bill before the official start of the legislative session on Feb. 12. Democratic Representative Mike Freiberg, from Golden Valley, who originally introduced

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Health Care

The initial count from the Carter Center reports that there were only 13 instances of Guinea worm cases in the year 2023, a significant decrease from previous years when there were millions of cases.

The latest report from The Carter Center shows that there were 13 cases of Guinea worm disease reported globally in 2023, indicating that the disease is close to being eradicated. The confirmed number of human cases in 2022 is expected to be finalized in the upcoming months. This aligns with the initial count, which recorded

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Science News

NASA’s little helicopter on Mars has logged its last flight

NASA’s small Mars helicopter has completed its final flight in Cape Canaveral, Florida. On Thursday, the space agency declared that the helicopter called Ingenuity, weighing 4 pounds (1.8 kilograms), is unable to continue flying due to damage to its rotor blades. Although it is still standing and communicating with flight controllers, officials have confirmed that

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Science News

The United States has established strategies to safeguard endangered whales in the vicinity of offshore wind farms, while companies exchange wind lease agreements.

The federal environmental agencies released plans on Thursday to improve the conservation of endangered whales in light of the development of offshore wind farms in Atlantic City, New Jersey. This decision was made as two companies involved in offshore wind energy revealed they were exchanging their respective projects. The final plans to safeguard the endangered

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Technology News

The Federal Trade Commission is launching an investigation into the collaborations between major technology companies and prominent artificial intelligence startup companies.

American antitrust regulators are launching an investigation into the connections between top artificial intelligence companies, such as OpenAI which produces ChatGPT, and the large technology corporations that have poured billions of dollars into them. This initiative focuses on Amazon, Google, and Microsoft’s influence on the growing popularity of generative AI, which has led to a

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