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HIV drugs the scientific breakthrough of the year

The preventive HIV drug lenacapavir has been named the scientific breakthrough of the year by the scientific journal Science.

In 2024, large clinical studies have given hope that new HIV infections will be able to be stopped in the long run.

Two injections per year are considered a significantly better and less stigmatizing alternative to the current method of taking a tablet every day.

The new space race
Musk's new move: Will make Starbase a Texas city

Tech billionaire Elon Musk is taking the first step to turn Starbase, the place where Space X builds and launches its rockets, into a real city. This is reported by AP.

Yesterday, Musk's company Space X submitted an official application to local authorities requesting a vote to make Starbase a city.

As early as 2021, Musk talked about turning Starbase in South Texas into a city. Earlier this year, he announced that Space X's headquarters and social media company X were moving from California to Texas.

Murdered CEO in New York
Analysis: "The hot assassin" has become a folk hero

Luigi Mangione, who is suspected of having shot dead the CEO of a health insurance company in New York, seems to have become something of a folk hero in parts of American society, writes Vanessa Friedman in an analysis in The Guardian.

According to her, many Americans have begun to hail the suspected killer as "the hot assassin".

"He has become what the historian Eric Hobsbawm calls 'a social bandit' - a man who seems to stand up against an unjust system."

In the Washington Post, Philip Kennicott writes that Mangione's beautiful exterior and social pathos mean that many do not seem to want to see him as a suspected murderer.

"The accolades for him seem to bridge political divides and are worrying for insurance companies, which suddenly seem to be deeply hated."