'Full Force': Trump Drops the Hammer on Portland Anti-ICE Radicals in Announcement on Troop Deployment

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A brand-new engineering approach to generate "designer" biological robots using human lung cells is underway in Carnegie Mellon University's Ren lab. Referred to as AggreBots, these microscale living robots may one day be able to traverse through the body's complex environments to deliver desired therapeutic or mechanical interventions, once greater control is achieved over their motility patterns. In new research published in Science Advances, the group provides a novel tissue engineering platform capable of achieving customizable motility in AggreBots by actively controlling their structural parameters.

Gravitational-wave detection technology is poised to make a big leap forward thanks to an instrumentation advance led by physicist Jonathan Richardson of the University of California, Riverside. A paper detailing the invention, published in the journal Optica, reports the successful development and testing of FROSTI, a full-scale prototype for controlling laser wavefronts at extreme power levels inside the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO.

University of Warwick astronomers have uncovered the chemical fingerprint of a frozen, water-rich planetary fragment being consumed by a white dwarf star outside our solar system.

This week, researchers identified a key driver of pancreatic cancer spread. Oral bacteria were linked to Parkinson's disease via the gut-brain axis. And scientists are advising California legislators to prepare for destructive "supershear" earthquakes. Plus: Scientists have identified brain states that can lead to epiphanies; anthropologists reconstructed a million-year-old skull with Homo-sapiens-like features; and a new study reports that lifestyle changes can cultivate optimal well-being, even in elderly people:

Retiring comfortably on Social Security alone is nearly impossible in most of the United States, according to a new report, which found that only 10 states allow retirees to fully cover their living expenses once the mortgage is paid, The Hill reported.

Quebec has approved its first adoption by a polyamorous trio - a "throuple"- granting three men legal recognition as parents of a three-year-old girl, according to Visegrad24.

As many as 200 protesters chanted "shoot ICE" at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in suburban Chicago on Friday, according to the Department of Homeland security.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is working behind the scenes with progressive activists to prepare for a government shutdown fight, signaling a shift in strategy as Democrats brace for a high-stakes clash with President Donald Trump and Republicans.