The top U.N. court rejected a request by Nicaragua to order Germany to halt military and other aid to Israel. The International Court of Justice said legal conditions for making such an order weren't met and rejected the request in a 15-1 vote. Germany argued at hearings in the case that it has barely exported any weapons to Israel since the offensive against Gaza started following the deadly incursion into southern Israel by Hamas militants.
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Five Stanford undergraduates have been awarded the 2024 Barry Goldwater Scholarship. This year’s recipients are Julie Chen, Cyrus Hajian, Jaeah Kim, Andrei Mandelshtam, and Sidra Xu. Each Goldwater Scholar receives a sum equal to the cost of tuition, mandatory fees, books, and room and board, up to a maximum of $7,500 per year.
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Sarah Teichmann started a group at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology in 2001 and became an MRC program leader in 2006. In 2013, she moved to be the first and only joint faculty member across the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute and Wellcome Sanger Institute, and was appointed Head of Cellular Genetics at the University of Cambridge in 2016. She has also co-founded the Human Cell Atlas (HCA) international consortium, which she co-leads
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This year, 12 graduate students and four undergraduates at UNC-Chapel Hill received fellowships from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Their research covers several STEM-related fields, including biology, sociology, genetics and anthropology. This fellowship is the oldest of its kind directly supporting graduate students in STEM. Federal funding through a three-year stipend provides educational support, professional development and international research opportunities.
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The Sports Bra is a pub where women’s sports are celebrated. Packed and buzzing with activity, the bar has successfully tapped into a meteoric rise of interest in women's sports. The bar announced plans this week to go nationwide through a franchise model.
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Rob Futrick has been accepted into Forbes Technology Council. He will share insights on the role of Python, open-source data science, and AI development tools to help business leaders build AI faster and more confidently. With expertise in software and product development, he will contribute original articles on how to increase ROI, scale adoption and accelerate time-to-value with AI and data science solutions.
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Milan Novak, 67, decided to move from Florida to rural Arkansas. It took him years to adjust to the pace of life and to live on a limited income due to a lack of jobs in his new home. Some have cited rising home and insurance prices as motivations for leaving.
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Walmart, which launched its health centers five years ago, said Tuesday that it's learned through managing the health centers and virtual service that 'there is not a sustainable business model for us to continue' Walmart had 51 health centers in five states, with the goal of helping people save money on their health care needs. At the time, the company said that it was looking to open 28 centers in 2024, mostly in Dallas and Houston.
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researchers from the Asteroid Institute and the University of Washington revealed an even bigger bounty: 27,500 newly identified solar system bodies. That is more than were discovered by all of the world’s telescopes last year.
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The Sports Bra is a pub where women’s sports are celebrated — and the only thing on TV. It has successfully tapped into a meteoric rise of interest in women's sports, embodied most recently by the frenzy over University of Iowa basketball phenomenon Caitlin Clark’s records-smashing feats. In the 2023 Women’s World Cup drew 18.9 million viewers on average, surpassing the audience for the men’s title match for the first time.
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