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Toxins plus climate harms likely cause of reduced fertility, study finds

Sunday at 15:00 PM, via The Guardian

Researchers find ‘alarming’ effect on fertility across global species from simultaneous exposures

Simultaneous exposure to toxic chemicals and climate change’s impacts likely generates an additive or synergistic effect that increases reproductive harm, and may contribute to the broad global drop in fertility, new peer-reviewed research finds.

The review of scientific literature considers how...

Privacy Advocate Accuses US Government of Investing in AI-Powered Mass Surveillance

Sunday at 13:34 PM, via Slashdot

The Conversation published this warning from privacy/tech law/electronic surveillance attorney Anne Toomey McKenna (also an affiliated faculty member at Penn State’s Institute for Computational and Data Sciences). The U.S. government “is able to purchase Americans’ sensitive data because the information it buys is not subject to the same restrictions as information it collects directly. The...

SpaceX bets the rocket farm on AI

Sunday at 11:30 AM, via TechCentral

Capital spending at SpaceX more than doubled last year, exceeding revenue and raising fears of further raises.

40 Years After the Chernobyl Disaster, More Countries Are Turning To Nuclear Power

Sunday at 09:34 AM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shared this report from the Associated Press:The 1986 Chernobyl disaster fueled global fears about nuclear power and slowed its development in Europe and elsewhere. Four decades later, however, there’s a revival around the world, a trend that has been given a big boost by war in the Middle East. Over 400 nuclear reactors are operational in 31 countries, while about 70 more...

The remarkable turnaround at Intel

Sunday at 09:30 AM, via TechCentral

Soaring demand for AI inference workloads has seen Intel selling stockpiled CPUs once written off entirely.

UK departments at odds over energy demands of AI datacentres

Sunday at 09:00 AM, via The Guardian

Discrepancy in forecasts raises questions over government planning for net zero

One vision of the UK’s future involves a decarbonised economy powered by clean, renewable energy. Another involves making the UK an AI superpower.

The government departments responsible for these two visions do not appear to have agreed on their numbers.

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The tortoise and the hare: will China beat the US in the race back to the moon?

Sunday at 08:00 AM, via The Guardian

The rival superpowers are ramping up preparations for a crewed lunar landing nearly six decades after the first moon walk

The world watched earlier this month as Nasa sent four astronauts around the moon – but to actually land on the surface the US is once again in a space race, this time with China. And China may well win.

Both countries plan to build inhabited lunar bases – the first...

Scientists believe birds’ skulls hold clues to inner lives of long-extinct dinosaurs

Sunday at 08:00 AM, via The Guardian

Early birds were like ‘T rex reincarnated’, says scientist who believes avian skulls offer insight into dinosaurs’ behaviour

T rex is often depicted as more brawn than brains, but now scientists are hoping to probe just what was going on inside its head, drawing on findings from another kind of dinosaur: birds.

Scientists have previously found some species of bird not only make and use tools,...

Is AI Cannibalizing Human Intelligence? A Neuroscientist’s Way to Stop It

Sunday at 06:34 AM, via Slashdot

The AI industry is largely failing to ask a key design question, argues theoretical neuroscientist/cognitive scientist Vivienne Ming. Are their AI products building human capacity or consuming it? In the Wall Street Journal Ming shares her experiment about which group performed best at predicting real-world events (compared to forecasters on prediction market Polymarket) — AI, human, or...

Trump Fires All 24 Members of America’s National Science Board

Sunday at 02:45 AM, via Slashdot

America’s National Science Board (NSB) “was established in 1950 to guide the governance of the National Science Foundation,” writes the Washington Post, “in an unusual structure within the federal government that echoes the setup of a company board in the private sector. It helps guide an agency that operates Antarctic research stations, telescopes, a fleet of research vessels and supports...

Australia’s Teen Social Media Ban Isn’t Working. Half Their Teens Still Have Access, Survey Finds

Sunday at 01:09 AM, via Slashdot

After Australia banned social media for users younger than 16, teenagers “immediately worked to circumvent the restrictions,” reports Fortune:14-year-old in New South Wales, toldThe Washington Post in December 2025, justbefore the implementation of the ban, she planned to use her mother’sface ID to log in to Snapchatand .In a Reddit thread on ways to bypass the ban, one user suggestedusing a...

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