Day: February 17, 2025

While hospitalized at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital, Pope Francis has received touching letters from inmates who were set to perform for him at a special concert.

After heavy weekend rain, Kentucky continues search water missions as over 14,000 remain without power and over 28,000 are under boil water advisories.

Mammoth Biosciences researchers have developed NanoCas, an ultracompact CRISPR nuclease, demonstrating its ability to perform gene editing in non-liver tissues, including skeletal muscle, using a single adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector. Experiments in non-human primates (NHPs) resulted in editing efficiencies exceeding 30% in muscle tissues.

Elon Musk has said he could cut “at least $2 trillion” from U.S. government spending by eliminating “waste.”

Hundreds of FAA employees were fired over the weekend as part of the Trump administration’s mass firing of probationary employees.

A powerful storm brought flooding rain and widespread power outages to portions of Kentucky and Tennessee, among other states, this past weekend.

Officials from Elon Musk’s SpaceX are visiting the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced. In a lengthy post on X, Duffy said the country deserves top-of-the-line air travel and he will comply with President Trump’s order to revamp the industry. “To do that, I need advice from the brightest minds in America.…