In photos: Fairfield students learn about the water cycle by using new groundwater model

Fifth grade students from Stratfield Elementary School learned about the water cycle and the effect of rain on a watershed at ...
AlphaGalileo

AI model brings affordable 3D vision to automated fruit harvesting

A research team has developed a novel artificial intelligence (AI) system that enables low-cost agricultural robots to “see” ...
TechCrunch

Verily is closing its medical device program as Alphabet shifts more resources to AI

Alphabet’s life sciences arm Verily laid off staff and eliminated its entire devices program Monday. CEO Stephen Gillett announced the “difficult decision” to wind down the program in a staff memo, ...
Health Affairs

Evidence-Based Community Health Worker Program Addresses Unmet Social Needs And Generates Positive Return On Investment

Interventions that address socioeconomic determinants of health are receiving considerable attention from policy makers and health care executives. The interest is fueled in part by expected returns ...
The White House

FURTHER EXCLUSIONS FROM THE FEDERAL

Section 1. Determinations. The agencies and agency subdivisions set forth in section 2 of this order are hereby determined to have as a primary function intelligence, counterintelligence, ...
theroar.com.au

AFL News: Watershed moment as former Eagle comes out as bisexual, TDK free agency call confirmed

Former West Coast defender Mitch Brown has become the first AFL player to publicly identify as bisexual. “I played in the AFL for 10 years for the West Coast Eagles and I’m a bisexual man,” Brown told ...
The New York Times

Questions Arise Over Hiring of Firm to Run $11 Billion Health Care Program

The bidding process was questioned on Friday after the company, Public Partnerships LLC, admitted it had exchanged unspecified communications with state officials before the contract was awarded. By ...
The Boston Globe

Just because the Republicans passed it doesn’t make a new federal scholarship program a bad idea

Teachers unions want Massachusetts to reject money that can be used by private and public school students. But the state should keep an open mind. Even before its details are known, opponents are ...
Wall Street Journal

These AI-Skilled 20-Somethings Are Making Hundreds of Thousands a Year

WSJ’s Amrith Ramkumar reported from an AI summit in July, where President Trump signed executive orders to boost the AI industry in the U.S. Photo: Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP It’s a tough time to be a ...
Wall Street Journal

RFK Jr., HHS to Link Autism to Tylenol Use in Pregnancy and Folate Deficiencies

The firing of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s head has fueled concern about the nation’s health policies under Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Photo: Bob Daemmrich/ZUMA Press; Elijah ...
The New York Times

Medicare Will Require Prior Approval for Certain Procedures

A pilot program in six states will use a tactic employed by private insurers that has been heavily criticized for delaying and denying medical care. By Reed Abelson and Teddy Rosenbluth Like millions ...