Vitamin A may be helping cancer hide from the immune system

A vitamin A byproduct has been found to quietly disarm the immune system, allowing tumors to evade attack and weakening cancer vaccines. Scientists have now developed a drug that shuts down this pathway, dramatically boosting immune responses and slowing cancer growth in preclinical studies.

Disney+ EMEA Promotes ‘Rivals’ Commissioner & Three Others As Content Chief Angela Jain Sets Out Ambitions Internally

Disney+ EMEA Promotes ‘Rivals’ Commissioner & Three Others As Content Chief Angela Jain Sets Out Ambitions Internally

EXCLUSIVE: Disney+ has promoted four executives in Europe as new content chief Angela Jain says she wants to set her team up “for long term success in EMEA.” In one of her first big decisions since stepping into the role, Jain has promoted Rivals commissioner Lee Mason and Blind Date overseer Se...

Are our bodies full of microplastics or not? There’s a way to resolve this debate, and scientists must hurry | Debora MacKenzie

Are our bodies full of microplastics or not? There’s a way to resolve this debate, and scientists must hurry | Debora MacKenzie

This week’s furore is microplastics researchers’ ozone moment. If they fail, the powerful plastics lobby will step into the breachDebora MacKenzie is a science journalist and author of Stopping the Next Pandemic: How Covid-19 Can Help Us Save HumanityAre we being injured and killed by ubiquitous...

Costa Rica builds new mega-prison modelled on El Salvador jail

Costa Rica builds new mega-prison modelled on El Salvador jail

El Salvador's gang-busting President Nayib Bukele on Wednesday laid the foundation stone for a prison in Costa Rica modeled on his own CECOT mega-jail that rights groups say is the setting for serious human rights abuses. The Costa Rican government says the new facility will cost $35 million and be ...

Honda’s futuristic new logo is ready for a ‘Tron’ cameo

Honda’s futuristic new logo is ready for a ‘Tron’ cameo

Honda says its refreshed H logo represents a “second founding” for the company. Honda 2.0, then, is designed to look like it’s from the future. The Japanese automaker announced on January 13 that it’s adopting a new logo across its automobile business. The company has had some sort of an H m...

How Trump’s Iran strike options are shaped by Venezuela buildup

How Trump’s Iran strike options are shaped by Venezuela buildup

President Trump’s strike options against Iran amid the nationwide protests are shaped by his massive military buildup in the Caribbean, which has ballooned since late last year and culminated in the U.S. special forces’ capture of Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro.  The Pentagon dispatched do...

Katie Pavlich feels ready to meet the moment

Katie Pavlich feels ready to meet the moment

Author and longtime political commentator Katie Pavlich is gearing up to launch her own opinion show Monday night on NewsNation. “Katie Pavlich Tonight,” slated for the channel’s 10 p.m. hour, will focus on “culture, politics, [and] policy debates,” and its launch comes at a particularly f...