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Fourth US Wind Farm Project Blocked By Trump Allowed to Resume Construction

Today at 19:34 PM, via Slashdot

Vineyard Wind (powering Massachusetts) is one of five offshore wind projects “that the Trump administration tried to hold up in December,” reports The Hill. This week it became the fourth of those wind projects allowed by a judge to resume construction, the article notes, while even the fifth project “is still awaiting court proceedings.”Federal Judge Brian Murphy, a Biden appointee, issued a...

Scientists Create Programmable, Autonomous Robots Smaller Than a Grain of Salt

Today at 18:34 PM, via Slashdot

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan “have created the world’s smallest fully programmable, autonomous robots,” according to a recent announcement. The announcement calls them “microscopic swimming machines that can independently sense and respond to their surroundings, operate for months and cost just a penny each.” Barely visible to the naked eye, each...

‘Adjustments must be made’: how to live well after mid-life

Today at 18:00 PM, via The Guardian

We are living longer and longer, but many of us are unprepared for the challenges age brings, says the novelist and psychotherapist Frank Tallis

We have never lived so long, so well, nor had more available advice on how to do so: don’t smoke, don’t drink, don’t eat ultraprocessed foods; lift weights, get outside, learn a language. Cosmetics – or surgery – have never been so available,...

Microbes In Space Mutated and Developed a Remarkable Ability

Today at 17:34 PM, via Slashdot

“A box full of viruses and bacteria has completed its return trip to the International Space Station,” reports ScienceAlert, “and the changes these ‘bugs’ experienced in their travels could help us Earthlings tackle drug-resistant infections…”Scientists aboard the space station incubated different combinations of bacteria and phages for 25 days, while the research team led by biochemist Vatsan...

Catch a falling star: cosmic dust may reveal how life began, and a Sydney lab is making it from scratch

Today at 16:00 PM, via The Guardian

Recreating cosmic dust may help answer questions about how meteorites hitting Earth came to contain the organic matter that they do

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How does one acquire star dust? One option, as the Perry Como song suggests, is to catch a falling star and put it in your pocket, so to speak: thousands of tonnes of cosmic dust bombard the Earth each...

7 Best Prepaid Phone Plans (2026)

Today at 15:00 PM, via Wired

Forget the pricey, postpaid cell plans and two-year contracts. Save with one of these WIRED-tested options from US Mobile, Boost, and Google Fi.

99% of New US Will Be Green in 2026

Today at 14:34 PM, via Slashdot

This year in America, renewables and battery storage “will account for 99.2% of net new capacity — and even higher if small-scale solar were included,” reports Electrek, citing EIA data reviewed by the SUN DAY Campaign:EIA’s latest monthly “Electric Power Monthly” report (with data through November 30, 2025), once again confirms that solar is the fastest-growing among the major sources of US...

99% of New US Energy Capacity Will Be Green in 2026

Today at 14:34 PM, via Slashdot

This year in America, renewables and battery storage “will account for 99.2% of net new capacity — and even higher if small-scale solar were included,” reports Electrek, citing EIA data reviewed by the SUN DAY Campaign:EIA’s latest monthly “Electric Power Monthly” report (with data through November 30, 2025), once again confirms that solar is the fastest-growing among the major sources of US...

China Executes 11 Members of Myanmar Scam Mafia

Today at 10:34 AM, via Slashdot

The BBC reports:China has executed 11 members of a notorious mafia family that ran scam centres in Myanmar along its north-eastern border, state media report. The Ming family members were sentenced in September for various crimes including homicide, illegal detention, fraud and operating gambling dens by a court in China’s Zhejiang province. The Mings were one of many clans that ran the town of...

DStv’s new owner talks about price increases

Today at 10:03 AM, via MyBroadband

Canal+’s acquisition of MultiChoice raised concerns that the company’s annual price increases for DStv may be scheduled for earlier in the year.

Ex-British army chief calls on ministers to back MDMA-assisted therapy for veterans

Today at 09:00 AM, via The Guardian

Nick Carter says easing controls on MDMA will allow drug to be used as alternative treatment for those with PTSD

A former head of the British military is calling for the government to ease restrictions on the party drug MDMA so that it can be tested more cheaply as a treatment for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Sir Nick Carter, who was chief of the defence staff until...

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Today at 08:51 AM, via Wired

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