#wired.com. #Jan.31.2025 × RFK Jr.’s Organic Crusade Has Sparked a Weird Political Realignment. Eating organic is normally associated with tote-wielding liberals, but RFK Jr. is shifting the politics of food in unusual ways.
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#wired.com. #Jan.31.2025 × RFK Jr.’s Senate Testimony Is Haunted by His Track Record. During his confirmation hearings this week, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he would promote vaccines as HHS secretary, despite a long history of promoting anti-vax positions.
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#bbc.com. #Jan.31.2025 × Poultry farmers in bird flu 'panic' call for UK vaccination plan. Vaccinating poultry against bird flu is still not allowed in the UK despite a rise in farm outbreaks.
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#bbc.com. #Jan.30.2025 × No targets for flying or farming in UK climate plan. The UK has set an ambitious goal to radically reduce carbon emissions by 2035.
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#wired.com. #Jan.30.2025 × Washington, DC Plane Crash: Everything We Know So Far. Air traffic controllers asked Flight 5342 to switch runways when coming in to land. Black box recordings from the jet and the military helicopter it collided with will help reveal if this contributed t
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#huffpost.com. #Jan.30.2025 × NASA’s Stranded Astronauts Take Spacewalk Together Amid Ongoing Limbo. Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore arrived at the International Space Station in June 2024 for what was only supposed to be a week-long stay.
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#computerweekly.com. #Jan.30.2025 × First international AI safety report published | Computer Weekly. A global cohort of nearly 1,000 artificial intelligence experts publish first international AI safety report ahead of the third AI summit, outlining an array of challenges posed by the technology that
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#bbc.com. #Jan.30.2025 × How sled dogs and pets respond when the clocks change. The breeds show different reaction to clocks going back and forward, a study suggests.
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#wired.com. #Jan.29.2025 × Trump’s Plan for Elon Musk to Bring the ‘Stranded’ Astronauts Home ASAP Is a Headache for NASA. Bringing forward the return of Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams would leave just a single astronaut operating the US portion of the International Space Station.
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#wired.com. #Jan.29.2025 × Federal Spending Freeze Threatens Ecosystems and Public Safety. A White House memo ordered a halt to federal assistance and a review to align spending with Donald Trump’s priorities. Many legal experts say the order is unconstitutional.
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#bbc.co.uk. #Jan.29.2025 × Tech Life - Not as dead as a dodo ? - BBC Sounds. Tech Life takes a close look at the controversial process of de-extinction.
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#computerweekly.com. #Jan.29.2025 × Vallance rejects latest charge to reform UK hacking laws | Computer Weekly. Science minister Lord Vallance rejects proposed amendments to the Computer Misuse Act, arguing that they could create a loophole for cyber criminals to exploit
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#theguardian.com. #Jan.29.2025 × All in the mind? The surprising truth about brain rot. Is screen use really sapping our ability to focus and lowering our IQs? The scientists who have actually analysed the data give their verdict
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#theguardian.com. #Jan.28.2025 × Reeves plans to create ‘Silicon Valley’ between Oxford and Cambridge. Chancellor to announce plans to improve infrastructure in region to put it at forefront of science and tech advances
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#bbc.com. #Jan.28.2025 × LA fires made worse by climate change, say scientists. Scientists say the fires that engulfed Los Angeles were made 35% more likely due to climate warming.
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#bbc.com. #Jan.28.2025 × 'Doomsday Clock' moved closest ever to humanity's destruction. The symbolic clock is set at 89 seconds to midnight, with nuclear threats, AI misuses and climate change being the key factors.
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#techcrunch.com. #Jan.28.2025 × Helion raises $425M to help build a fusion reactor for Microsoft | TechCrunch. Helion's unorthodox approach to fusion power and relative secrecy has earned it plenty of fans — and critics. But don’t count its investors among the naysayers.
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#theguardian.com. #Jan.26.2025 × Technology for lab-grown eggs or sperm on brink of viability, UK fertility watchdog finds. Exclusive: In-vitro gametes are viewed as the holy grail of fertility research
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#wired.com. #Jan.26.2025 × Scientists Recreate the Conditions That Sparked Complex Life. Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the first time, biologists made it happen in the lab.
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#wired.com. #Jan.25.2025 × George R.R. Martin Coauthored a Scientific Paper. OK, cool, now finish The Winds of Winter.
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#wired.com. #Jan.25.2025 × The Cause of the LA Fires Might Never Be Known—but AI Is Hunting for Clues. The source of more than half of all wildfires in the Western US remains unknown, so the US Forest Service has teamed up with computer scientists to create tools that can find answers.
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#bbc.com. #Jan.24.2025 × UK's plutonium to be readied for disposal. The government says it will dispose of its 140 tonnes of radioactive plutonium - currently stored at Sellafield.
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#wired.com. #Jan.24.2025 × 5 Physics Equations Everyone Should Know. Our physics expert picks his top-five equations, plus a scheme to supply US power needs with a bucket of baseballs. Thanks, Einstein!
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#wired.com. #Jan.24.2025 × Science Has Spun Spidey's Web-Slinging Into Reality. When a US research lab accidentally created a sticky web-like substance, it turned to Peter Parker and comic-book lore for inspiration on what to do next.
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