Social Responsibility

Last week, former President Donald Trump attacked "Jewish leaders" for lack of loyalty to him and for neglecting his record in Israel, in a post on his social media site, Truth Social. | Rebecca Blackwell/AP Photo Former President Donald Trump is set to meet with an Orthodox Jewish educational group on Friday, amid ongoing controversy over his decision to dine with two prominent anti-Semites. Trump will address the annual Torah Umesorah Presidential Conference at his club, National Doral, in Miami, a person close to Trump confirmed. The event is part of a day-long gathering bringing together leaders, educators and askanim…

To the rhythm set by the revelry, the SWG3 multidisciplinary nightclub in the Scottish city of Glasgow captures the body heat of its devotees to music and enjoyment and uses it as a source of energy to air-condition its different rooms with an innovative zero carbon system. At a party with friends, the DJ plays his repertoire and little by little more people gather around the DJ until the place is full, dancing to the rhythm of his synthesizer: then the temperature rises… "and we capture that heat"as explained to Efe by the director of SWG3, Andrew Fleming-Brown. Pioneers in…

Study tests 16 patients with CRISPR technology not only to remove genes, but also to insert new ones into immune cellsAlthough the clinical benefit in terms of patient response was limited, the technique represents a leap towards individualized treatments A scientific team has succeeded in using the CRISPR gene editing technology to insert genes that allow immune cells focus your attack on cancer cells, leaving the normals potentially unscathed. This new approach that increases the immunotherapy efficacy has been tested in a phase I clinical trial with 16 patients with various types of cancercolon, breast and lung); This is an…

Minnesota Vikings star receiver Justin Jefferson doesn't want to hear any more shots from his quarterback, Kirk Cousins. The Vikings have already punched their ticket to the playoffs, winning the NFC North with two regular-season playoff games to go. But some are still skeptical about Minnesota, which has generated eight fourth-quarter comebacks this season, tied for the most in NFL history.Many fingers are pointed at Cousins, a signaling veteran. Some see him as decisive when it matters most, some see him as the reason the Vikings trail those games in the first place. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON…

Rep. Don Beyer listens to Virginia Governor Ralph Northam speak at a campaign event for Democratic Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe. | Photo by Andrew Harnik/AP The Department of Energy announced a breakthrough in the decades-long quest to recreate on Earth the process that powers the Sun: nuclear fusion. To simplify a bit, scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California recently shot a bunch of lasers at a piece of hydrogen. The lasers used 2.05 megajoules of energy to hit the hydrogen. The resulting reaction produced 3 megajoules of energy. For the first time in the history of fusion…

An "artifact" of challenger Shuttle, which in 1986 disintegrated 73 seconds after its launch and killed seven astronauts, has been discovered in waters near Florida, in the Bermuda Triangle, by documentarians looking for the remains of a World War II plane . The US space agency (NASA) revealed this Thursday that its specialists confirmed that the discovery made byr a History Channel film crew it is "an artifact from the space shuttle Challenger," which exploded nearly 37 years ago. The pay TV channel notified NASA of the discovery. "Divers noticed a large human-made object partially covered by sand on the…

The Dallas Cowboys are still clinging to the hope of the NFC East.Dallas earned a 27-13 victory over the Tennessee Titans in the final game of the season on Thursday night.But not only are their division hopes alive, they have a (very) remote chance of being the No. 1 seed in the NFC.Dallas would have to win the next week, while the Philadelphia Eagles (13-2) would have to lose their last two games (this would give Dallas the division). But Minnesota and San Francisco need to lose each of their next two games for Dallas to pass them in the…

It is expected that this sector will generate more than 150,000 jobs in the next 20 years El Drone Research Laboratory (DroneLab) was released today on the campus of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (CPU) situated in Castelldefels. It is a multidisciplinary flight space -with dimensions of 80x40x15 meters and covered by a protective net- specializing in mobile communications applied to drones. In this new center, the first of its kind in Europe, test flights will be carried out and applications based on drones will be validated and tested. The DroneLab is promoted by the UPC and the Castelldefels Town…

cartoon carousel Every week, political cartoonists from across the country and across the political spectrum apply their inky skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies, and other shocking events in the world of politics. The fruits of this labor are hundreds of cartoons that entertain and infuriate readers of all political persuasions. Here's a deal on the best of this week's crop, fresh from the Toonosphere. Edited by Matt Wuerker. By POLITICAL STAFF 12/16/2022 07:25amEST