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Business

United States issues final warning

Yesterday at 16:59 PM, via BusinessTech

US President Donald Trump has issued a final warning if Tehran doesn’t agree to a deal.

Education

The Guardian view on school food: there is no instant solution to childhood obesity | Editorial

Yesterday at 18:30 PM, via The Guardian

Higher nutritional standards are a good idea. But ministers, like hungry pupils, must avoid looking for ‘grab-and-go’ fixes

For growing children, lunchtime is a vital moment in every day. Full-time education is demanding. Afternoon lessons only work because they come after a break – and food. And children, like adults, often mind a great deal about what they eat. So school menus are...

Science/Tech

‘The Moon and The Zoo’: Simon Armitage poem celebrates 200 years of ZSL

Today at 06:01 AM, via The Guardian

Zoological Society of London commissions poet laureate for animation to mark its 200th anniversary

Over its two centuries, acclaimed writers and artists have found inspiration at London zoo, from Edwin Landseer’s Trafalgar Square lions, to AA Milne’s naming “Winnie” after resident bear Winnipeg, and Sylvia Plath’s poem Zoo Keeper’s Wife.

Plath’s husband, Ted Hughes, who would become poet...

Science/Tech

Blue Origin Rocket Launches, Successfully Reuses Booster – But Loses Satellite

Today at 04:50 AM, via Slashdot

SpaceNews reports:Blue Origin’s New Glenn suffered a malfunction of its second stage on the rocket’s third flight April 19, stranding its payload in an unrecoverable “off-nominal” orbit and dealing the company a setback as it seeks to increase its flight rate… AST SpaceMobile had planned to launch 45 to 60 satellites this year for its D2D constellation, but BlueBird 7 is the first to launch...

Science/Tech

Voyager 1 is Running Out of Power. NASA Just Switched Part of It Off

Today at 01:49 AM, via Slashdot

After 49 years of space travel, Voyager 1 “is running out of power,” reports NPR:The spacecraft runs on a radioisotope thermoelectric generator — a device that converts heat from decaying plutonium into electricity. It carries no solar panels, no rechargeable batteries. Just the slow, steady release of nuclear warmth, which diminishes by about 4 watts each year. After nearly five decades,...

Science/Tech

Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Predicts Humankind Won’t Survive Another 50 Years

Yesterday at 23:57 PM, via Slashdot

Live Science spoke with physicist David Gross, who today received the $3 million “Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics”. He was part of a trio that won the 2004 physics Nobel prize for research that helped complete the Standard Model of particle physics. But when asked if physics will reach a unified theory of the fundamental forces of nature within 50 years, Gross has a surprising...

Health

The Help That Many Older Americans Need Most

Saturday at 11:02 AM, via New York Times

With shortages of medical professionals and an aging population, thousands of community health care workers prevent older adults from falling through the cracks.