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Over a decade’s worth of work by scientists working at Melbourne, Australia’s Monash University has produced a first-of-its-kind device that can restore vision to the blind, using a combination of smartphone-style electronics and brain-implanted micro electrodes. The system has already been shown to work in preclinical studies and non-human trials on sheep, and researchers are…

Sept. 15, 2020, 5:00 a.m. ETThe images of police officers in Rochester, N.Y., putting a hood over the head of a Black man who later died of suffocation spread rapidly throughout the country.But another troubling moment from that encounter is now also attracting attention: an officer on tiptoes, leaning forward and using his full weight…

LONDON (Reuters) – Inhaled versions of COVID-19 vaccine candidates developed by Oxford University and Imperial College will be trialled to see if they deliver a localised immune response in the respiratory tract, British researchers said on Monday.Small toy figures are seen in front of a Covid-19 Vaccine logo in this illustration taken, September 9, 2020.…

As students return to colleges worldwide, eager to socialize after months under coronavirus restrictions, they are paying a price for a previously common aspect of student life: parties. In Britain, the police in recent days issued a fine of 10,000 pounds (about $12,800) to a university student who had organized a party of more than…

Sept. 11, 2020Updated 12:57 p.m. ETArmy’s football schedule had been set for years. It took about five weeks of this pandemic-stricken summer for it to come apart.Five home games, like a sought-after visit from No. 5 Oklahoma that was planned more than a decade ago, vanished. So did four road trips. Less than a month…

ATGE.N said on Friday it plans to buy Walden University from Laureate Education Inc LAUR.O for $1.48 billion in cash to expand its reach into healthcare education.The deal adds to Adtalem’s existing portfolio of medical schools, such as American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine and Ross University School of Medicine.The combined company will…

An aerial view of mostly empty streets and parking lots with the downtown skyline in the background amid the coronavirus pandemic on April 4, 2020 in Los Angeles, California.Photo: Mario Tama (Getty Images)A trio of new studies published Thursday seem to push back the start of the covid-19 pandemic in the U.S. Two of the…

Sept. 9, 2020Updated 5:37 a.m. ETSTATE COLLEGE, Pa. — When Penn State traditionally kicks off its football season — almost always at home on Labor Day weekend — this small town and the surrounding hamlets buzz with life.Fans clog the sidewalks along College Avenue, an armada of recreational vehicles invade otherwise empty fields, and the…

Image: Monkey Business Images (Shutterstock)If you’re applying for financial aid this fall, the process may be different. Here’s why: Your financial aid forms for the 2021 to 2022 academic year will consider your family’s income from 2019. If your income has been impacted by the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, you may need to ask for…

Sept. 8, 2020, 3:50 p.m. ETTom Jernstedt, who helped transform the N.C.A.A. men’s college basketball tournament into the major annual sports attraction known as March Madness, died on Saturday outside his home in Tequesta, Fla. He was 75.His wife, Kristine Kellam Jernstedt, said he had finished exercising and died in his car while reading a…