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Scientist who helped lead charge in squelching Covid-19 lab-leak theory BACKTRACKS, points to ‘disturbing information’ – media

Peter Palese, who runs a lab named in his honor at New York's Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai,…

3 years ago

Supersoldiers & AI generals? Top Space Force scientist says Pentagon must adopt ‘human augmentation’ tech to beat out adversaries

At an event hosted by the Airforce Research Laboratory (AFRL) on Wednesday, Dr. Joel Mozer, chief scientist for the Space…

3 years ago

‘Do not wreck this now’: UK govt scientist urges lockdown-weary Brits not to flout Covid rules amid ‘burning’ infection pockets

Professor Jonathan Van-Tam said the Midlands, Scotland and Northern Ireland are among the areas "burning quite hot" with the virus."Look,…

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Vaccine rollout will trigger new Covid variants, Oxford scientist warns, adding ‘new layer of complexity’ to pandemic fight

Speaking to the UK Commons Science and Technology Committee on Wednesday, Professor Sir John Bell, Oxford’s regius professor of medicine,…

3 years ago

UK scientist slams Macron’s claims that AstraZeneca jab is ‘quasi-ineffective’ in over-65s

“In my view the politicians need to understand the science before they make utterances like that,” Professor Anthony Harnden of…

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Former data scientist & coronavirus crusader Rebekah Jones charged with computer misuse after turning herself in to Florida police

Rebekah Jones helped the state of Florida create its coronavirus dashboard, but had her home in Tallahassee raided by police…

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Cambridge Analytica-linked Stanford scientist’s study suggests he can tell by examining your FACE what your politics are

Properly-trained facial recognition algorithms can correctly guess a person’s political orientation nearly three quarters of the time, Kosinski claimed in…

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Rouhani accuses Israel of assassinating Iranian nuclear scientist to drag region into war

The comments were made during a press conference in Tehran, where Rouhani was highlighting that Iran’s key priorities are ensuring…

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The armed police raid on home of ex-Florida Covid-19 data scientist Rebekah Jones is an intolerable, dystopian intimidation tactic

According to state officials, Jones, a former Florida Department of Health (DOH) data scientist, was fired for “insubordination,” but she…

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Iran says some perpetrators of nuclear scientist’s assassination have been identified, arrests have already begun – report

The people behind the killing of nuclear physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh “have been identified for the Islamic Republic of Iran, and…

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