Where would musical theater be without gleaming little prop vials of potions?
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Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
11 July 2026
Along the way, visitors can cast spells with a digital wand, brew potions, pot a mandrake, test their Quidditch skills and explore iconic settings like the Great Hall, Hogwarts classrooms, Hagrid's Hut and the Forbidden Forest.
Chung and her colleagues treat cells with diverse drugs and simultaneously measure intracellular regulatory proteins, including the direct drug targets, and the transcriptome over a longitudinal time course.
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Rachel Martin,
Hartford Courant,
11 July 2026
In anticipation of the birth of his son, Ferguson had kicked a nagging heroin habit, trading his addiction to drugs for an infatuation with activism.
Researchers are already exploring approaches such as lowering doses, taking medicines less frequently (like monthly or quarterly), or switching from injections to pills.
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Annika Kim Constantino,
CNBC,
11 July 2026
Last month, France’s medicines regulator fined Novo Nordisk approximately $2 million and Eli Lilly $127,000 over direct-to-consumer obesity awareness campaigns.
Those figures include pharmaceuticals, devices and services, not supplements alone.
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Hanna Wickes,
Kansas City Star,
16 July 2026
Among the agency’s global priorities, are strengthening supply chains for critical minerals, pharmaceuticals, agricultural inputs such as fertilizer and crop protection.
Two employees in pharmaceutical industry wearing protective gloves, mask, cap and white suit seen standing by the machine that is the part of the medicaments production during the working hours in a pharmaceutical manufacturing.
Although the work focuses on fundamental physics, the implications could extend much further.
—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
10 July 2026
Colliding protons at record-setting energies of almost 14 trillion electron volts (TeV), the LHC became the world’s most powerful collider and redrew the map of experimental particle physics.
—
Florencia Canelli,
Scientific American,
1 July 2026
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