A new study, which aims to determine whether poverty-stricken mothers who have been accused of child neglect could improve if they are given extra income, is being introduced by researchers from Harvard Law School’s Access to Justice Lab, according to a report by The Washington Post. The study is specifically aimed at establishing whether providing […]
Here’s some good news for parents. New research by the University of Calgary may help alleviate some concerns parents face when it comes to their children’s health and well-being. The research specifically delved into the longer-term effects of certain types of childhood concussions. It involved gathering and compiling information from emergency room visits in children’s […]
A new study from the North Carolina State University has revealed a link between a widely used sweetener and a chemical compound known to cause DNA damage. The study found the chemical is formed when digesting the sweetener and trace amounts of the chemical are also found in the sweetener itself. Sucralose is widely distributed […]
OpenTheBooks founder Adam Andrzejewski and Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) on Wednesday released a report showing that the U.S. government spent $1.3 billion in the last five years on research in China and Russia. NTD speaks with the watchdog’s founder.
A new study has revealed that injuries among army recruits are costing the U.S. government millions of dollars in rehabilitation and compensation costs. Injuries have been surging at an alarming rate—and particularly for recruits from the South. The study, published in the medical journal “Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases,” found that of almost 100,000 trainees in […]
Coffee drinkers are in for some good news: New research shows that coffee consumption does not have adverse effects on the heart, and it may even have benefits for those with existing heart conditions.
Dr. Robert Redfield, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), told lawmakers on Wednesday that U.S. tax dollars funded risky gain-of-function research at a Chinese virus lab at the heart of the COVID-19 origin controversy. Redfield made the remark while responding to questions during a March 8 session of the House Select […]
This film is only available in the United States and Canada because of territorial licensing. Trees talk, know family ties, and care for their young? Is this too fantastic to be true? German forester Peter Wohlleben (author of “The Hidden Life of Trees”) and scientist Suzanne Simard (of the University of British Columbia, Canada) have […]
The idea that humans sailed the seas hundreds of thousands of years ago no longer seems that far-fetched. A new coastal analysis claims that they did, based on ancient artifacts Greek archaeologists discovered on the Aegean Islands. The study published in Nature suggests that ancient humans must have found ways to travel over large regions […]
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried revealed Thursday that he doesn’t know what happened to billions of dollars that customers of his cryptocurrency exchange sent to accounts of his trading company Alameda Research. Speaking to the Wall Street Journal Thursday, Bankman-Fried said that the funds “were wired to Alameda, and … I can only speculate about what happened after […]
U.S. government agencies sent almost $29 million in taxpayer dollars “directly to Chinese entities” for joint research over a five-year period ending in 2021, recently released findings show. From fiscal years 2015 through 2021, “the CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention], NIH [National Institutes of Health], and DOD [Department of Defense] provided 22 awards […]
More than 150 scientists who worked in a top U.S. national security laboratory were hired by the Chinese regime to do research, according to a new report. Much of that research has directly advanced Chinese military technology, which now threatens U.S. national security. The report (pdf), published by strategic intelligence firm Strider Technologies, claims that […]
Four thousand beagles will be transferred from a Virginia breeding and research facility to be put up for adoption after it was cited for animal welfare violations. A judge in July approved a plan to transfer the 4,000 beagles housed at Envigo’s facility in Cumberland, Virginia, to shelters. “The Humane Society of the United States worked with […]
In the annals of racial reckoning, Georgetown University’s public atonement for its historical links to slavery has attracted special attention and generous praise. Since the student newspaper jolted the campus with accounts of Jesuit priests engineering the sale of 272 enslaved people in 1838 to stave off bankruptcy for the college, Georgetown has honored campus […]
Obesity has become an increasingly serious global problem. Data show that since 1975, the number of obese people worldwide has increased twofold, and more and more people’s lives and health are affected by obesity. Researchers around the world have been trying to explore ways to lose weight. Some progresses have been made lately on how to […]
Recent research results from China’s financial securities firms show that the cost of the Chinese regime’s mass COVID-19 nucleic acid testing exceeded its military spending in 2021, and that it will drain China’s national medical insurance funds within three and a half years if citizens are tested every two days as required by the regime. […]
The United States and Japan will bolster defense collaboration under two new agreements in the wake of China’s “provocative actions” in the disputed South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday. Speaking at the opening of a virtual meeting between the two countries’ foreign and defense ministers, […]
The government and the private sector will jointly provide over 400 million pounds ($543 million) for research into small nuclear reactors. They hope these reactors, which can be relatively cheap to build and easy to transport, could be a key in shifting to clean household energy more quickly.
The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded research in China that created a more potent form of a bat coronavirus, according to newly disclosed documents. An experiment conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, situated near where the first cases of COVID-19 were reported, compared mice infected with the original bat coronavirus to mice […]
