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President Biden has nominated the former head of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as his chief science advisor, just as the administration is trying to set up a similar organisation focusing on risky breakthroughs in health. Arati Prabhakar will also take over permanent leadership of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) after the White House body’s former chief, Eric Lander, stepped down in February after reports he bullied his subordinates.

Biden nominated engineer and physicist Arati Prabhakar, who during the Obama administration directed the James Bond-like DARPA which came up with the Internet and stealth aircraft, to the science adviser job.

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The FDA this week launched a crackdown on smoking and vaping — ordering the vaping device Juul to be taken off the market and announcing its intention to require makers of cigarettes and other tobacco products to reduce the amount of nicotine in them.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden nominated the former head of two federal science...