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Science & Tech

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Dr. Despina Siolas M.D., Ph.D. of Weill Cornell Medicine was one of twenty National Institute of Health (NIH) junior faculty grant awardees to recently meet with Dr. Anthony Fauci, Former Chief Medical Advisor to the President of the United States on Tuesday, March 28, 2023. Dr. Fauci was awarded the 2023 Ralph L. Nachman MD Visiting Professorship from the Weill Cornell Medicine Department of Medicine.

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Image credit: ispace
 
Days before Japan's Hakuto-R lunar lander apparently crashed into the moon's surface on Tuesday (April 25), it snapped a truly gorgeous picture of our planet. The image, which is reminiscent of Apollo 8's iconic "Earthrise"(opens in new tab) photo, shows our planet sitting on top of the lunar horizon like a perfect blue marble. The moon's shadow can be seen passing over Australia, which was experiencing a total solar eclipse at the time (April 20).
 

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Two programs, Archytas and Grypas, have been launched, financed and supervised by the Ministry of Finance and aim at the design and industrial production of autonomous aircraft (drone) with the cooperation of the EAB and the Universities - Aristotle Thessaloniki (AUTH), Patras (PP), Democritus Thrace (APTH) and Thessaly (APTH).

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(Photo Credit: Metropolitan Transportation Authority) 
 
Following the news that MetroCards will soon be phased out and old subway cars are being replaced by new R211 cars, MTA announced in December of last year that the subway’s glass ticket booths will soon be a thing of the past, replaced with new customer service centers. And now we have a first look at what those outdated token booths will soon look like!