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Since 2000, the estimated number of women who have used the abortion pill mifepristone in the U.S. for “medical termination of pregnancy through the end of December 2022 is approximately 5.9 million women,” reported the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) earlier this month. This number represents potentially 5.9 million preborn human lives (at least) lost to abortion by the abortion pill regimen (mifepristone and misoprostol) since 2000, and is 300,000 more than what was previously reported in January through the end of June of 2022.

The nonprofit Seafood and Gender Equality (SAGE) received a USD 350,000 grant from the Packard Foundation.

Gold buckyballs and the nanoparticles chemists often use as "seeds" are one and the same, report researchers.

Rice University chemists have discovered that tiny gold “seed” particles, a key ingredient in one of the most common nanoparticle recipes, are one and the same as gold buckyballs, 32-atom spheres that are cousins of the Nobel Prize-winning carbon buckyballs discovered at Rice in 1985.

Chelsea Clinton visited Napa on Thursday to highlight an early literacy program, and was (happily) upstaged by local kids.