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4 days ago | 
courthousenews.com | Kendra Leon Barrionuevo
(CN) — One way to tackle the ever-growing problem of plastic waste? Turn it into a useful product. That's the upshot of a study published Monday in Nature Chemistry. In the study, a team of researchers say they've found a chemical reaction that can extract medicine from plastic waste with the help of Escherichia coli bacteria, better known as E. coli.
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1 week ago | 
courthousenews.com | Monique Merrill |Kendra Leon Barrionuevo
(CN) — A former U.S. Army sergeant accused of attempting to pass sensitive American defense information to the Chinese government changed his plea to guilty on Wednesday. Joseph D. Schmidt, 31, appeared in a sparse federal courtroom in Seattle, presided over by U.S. Magistrate Judge Brian Tsuchida, where he agreed to plead guilty and not to seek additional and classified information nor share information with the media.
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1 week ago | 
courthousenews.com | Kendra Leon Barrionuevo |Monique Merrill
SEATTLE (CN) — A coalition of 16 states asked a federal court for an preliminary injunction on Tuesday to restore billions in congressionally approved electric vehicle infrastructure funding. “Had Congress intended for defendants to have this broad, sweeping authority, it would have provided that authority,” said Leah Brown with the Washington Attorney General’s Office.
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1 week ago | 
courthousenews.com | Kendra Leon Barrionuevo
(CN) — The Trump administration’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act would reduce federal Medicaid funding by at least $100 billion over 10 years, and a research team calculated the cost to low-income Americans in its study published Monday in Annals of Internal Medicine.
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2 weeks ago | 
courthousenews.com | Kendra Leon Barrionuevo
(CN) — In the summer of 2017, staff and volunteers at the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum of Natural History were excited to find fossilized feces, because they provided evidence for a longstanding theory about a dinosaur species’ eating habits. The dinosaur was the relatively complete skeleton of a sauropod from the mid-Cretaceous period.
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1 month ago | 
courthousenews.com | Monique Merrill |Kendra Leon Barrionuevo
Forcing federal grant recipients to either accept the Trump administration's anti-DEI conditions or forgo funding presents "patently irreparable and acute" harms, U.S. District Judge Barbara Rothstein found.
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1 month ago | 
courthousenews.com | Kendra Leon Barrionuevo
Researchers used a genetic database of over 9,600 Han Chinese individuals to train a technological model to reconstruct 3D facial images from DNA, but they are cautious about the legal and ethical implications of such AI innovation. (CN) — In the pursuit of advancing forensic science, Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers created the Difface model to reconstruct 3D facial images from crime scene DNA.
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1 month ago | 
courthousenews.com | Kendra Leon Barrionuevo
With rising costs and random events accounted for, new research says the world needs at least 2.7 children per woman to meet replacement level fertility. (CN) — With global anxiety about falling birthrates, the world used to console itself with the idea that having an average of 2.1 children per woman could hold off humanity's extinction. Researchers from Japan and the Philippines dispelled that notion in their study published Wednesday in PLOS One.
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2 months ago | 
courthousenews.com | Kendra Leon Barrionuevo
Through solidarity and strategy, female bonobos defy the male-dominated norms of social animals and rule their society. (CN) — Bonobos are humans’ closest living relatives, and researchers expected them to follow the roles of most social mammals where males dominate females, decide when to mate and who gets to eat first. But to the surprise of an international research team, female bonobos reverse the roles.
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2 months ago | 
courthousenews.com | Kendra Leon Barrionuevo
Dissatisfied with the lack of information on Italian viticulture, a research team gathered 1,700 archeological grape seeds to see how Italians of old helped to create modern Italian wine. (CN) — Italian wine is prominent in the world of grape cultivation, but its history is not as understood as viticulture in parts of Asia and Europe.
