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Duffy to announce nuclear reactor on the moon


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Trump administration dashes hopes of anti-pollution plan for JD Vance's home town
Trump administration dashes hopes of anti-pollution plan for JD Vance's home town
The $1.6bn Biden-era plan for a gas-powered blast furnace at a steel mill in Middletown, Ohio, is indefinitely on hold


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Troubling scenes from an Arctic in full-tilt crisis
Troubling scenes from an Arctic in full-tilt crisis
The heat that hit Svalbard in February was so intense that scientists could dig into the ground with spoons, "like it was soft ice cream."


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Israel's Netanyahu has decided on full occupation of Gaza, reports say
Israel's Netanyahu has decided on full occupation of Gaza, reports say
Netanyahu's war cabinet set to approve military operations across entire enclave, according to Israeli media.


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White House preps order to punish banks that discriminate against conservatives - WSJ (No paywall)
White House preps order to punish banks that discriminate against conservatives
The White House is preparing to step up pressure against big banks over perceived discrimination against conservatives and crypto companies with an executive order that threatens to fine lenders that drop customers for political reasons.




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On Ukraine's front lines the kill zone is getting deeper - The Economist (No paywall)
On Ukraine's front lines the kill zone is getting deeper
CARTEL AND HIS men are moving. Today his artillery covers part of Ukraines Zaporizhia front, and he controls his guns from a house 8km from the line of contact. His team, from the 128th Mountain Assault Brigade, monitors the war-scarred farmland here with surveillance drones, and Cartel orders strikes when a target is identified. Until January they were billeted closer to the front line, but enemy artillery forced him to move deeper into Ukrainian-held territory. Now enemy drone saturation has expanded the kill zone, so we are going underground, Cartel says. Their bunker will be ready by the middle of August.


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Russias Secret War and the Plot to Kill a German CEO - Bloomberg (No paywall)
Russias Secret War and the Plot to Kill a German CEO
Armin Papperger runs a German defense company arming Ukraine. The efforts have brought the weapons supplier unprecedented riches, and put a target on his back.


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Former IDF Chiefs Call on Israel to End War in Gaza
Former IDF Chiefs Call on Israel to End War in Gaza
Former high-profile members of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) and various Israeli security agencies have called for an end to the Israel-Hamas war, amid growing global concern over the humanitarian situation in Gaza.


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Earth's Core Appears To Be Leaking Up and Out of Earth's Surface | Quanta Magazine
Earth's Core Appears To Be Leaking Up and Out of Earth's Surface | Quanta Magazine
Strong new evidence suggests that primordial material from the planet's center is somehow making its way out. Continent-size entities anchored to the core-mantle boundary might be involved.




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Columbia Scientists Made a Gel From Yogurt That Heals Tissue, and It Works
Columbia Scientists Made a Gel From Yogurt That Heals Tissue, and It Works
Scientists at Columbia developed a healing gel made from yogurt that may hold the key to next-gen tissue regeneration.


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An AI data trap catches Perplexity impersonating Google - Business Insider (No paywall)
An AI data trap catches Perplexity impersonating Google
Quality data is crucial for success in AI, but tech companies don't want to pay for this, so they crawl the web and scrape information for free, often without permission. This has sparked a backlash by some content creators and others interested in preserving the incentives that built the web.


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Swimming in urban waterways across the world should be a right, say campaigners
Swimming in urban waterways across the world should be a right, say campaigners
Swimmable Cities summit in Rotterdam wants to change cleanliness of waterways and people's relationship to them


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Australia picks Japan to build $10b frigates after fierce contest
Australia picks Japan to build $10b frigates after fierce contest
Japanese shipbuilder Mitsubishi Heavy Industries wins a fierce contest to build the Australian navy's new fleet of warships, beating a bid from German rival Thyssen-Krupp Marine Systems.




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Watch a pod of orcas pretending to drown one of their own in macabre training session
Watch a pod of orcas pretending to drown one of their own in macabre training session
Footage from the BBC's new nature series "Parenthood" shows orcas practicing an important blue whale-hunting technique on each other.


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FT Investigation: The covert trip by Iranian nuclear experts to Russia - FT (No paywall)
FT Investigation: The covert trip by Iranian nuclear experts to Russia
An Iranian delegation visited Russian scientific institutes that produce dual-use technologies - components with potential applications in nuclear weapons research


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AI is listening to your meetings. Watch what you say. - WSJ (No paywall)
AI is listening to your meetings. Watch what you say.
Tiffany N. Lewis was worried she was being duped. A potential client had reached out about working with her digital marketing agency on a pro-bono basis, but his message went straight to spam. Then he blew off several scheduled meetings with Lewis. Was he a fraud?


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All the controversies likely to dog Poland's new president
All the controversies likely to dog Poland's new president
As president, Trump ally Karol Nawrocki will be immune from prosecution but an array of sometimes surreal scandals is still likely to dog him.




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17 heat records broken in Japan
17 heat records broken in Japan
Seventeen heat records were broken in Japan on Monday, the weather agency said, after the country sweltered through its hottest ever June and July.


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NASA's Lunar Trailblazer Moon Mission Ends - NASA
NASA's Lunar Trailblazer Moon Mission Ends - NASA
The small satellite was to map lunar water, but operators lost contact with the spacecraft the day after launch and were unable to recover the mission.


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The Changing Politics of Masks
The Changing Politics of Masks
Accountability and privacy are on a collision course that raises the stakes for the role of face-covering in modern life.


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Google mocks Apple's delayed AI features in new 'coming soon' ad - Business Insider (No paywall)
Google mocks Apple's delayed AI features in new 'coming soon' ad
In a new advertisement for the coming Pixel 10 smartphone, Google took a shot at Apple's delayed launch of its AI features. Apple announced an overhauled, "more personalized" Siri powered by Apple Intelligence at the Worldwide Developers Conference in 2024, but has yet to roll the feature out.




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Arrest Warrants Authorized For Texas Democrats Who Left State Over Redistricting - Forbes (No paywall)
Arrest Warrants Authorized For Texas Democrats Who Left State Over Redistricting
The Texas House greenlit a measure Monday directing state police to find and arrest dozens of Democratic lawmakers who fled the state Sunday to block a vote on a congressional redistricting map that could help the GOP secure five additional seats in midterm elections.


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Videos of Israeli Hostages in Gaza Spark Global Condemnation - Foreign Policy (No paywall)
Videos of Israeli Hostages in Gaza Spark Global Condemnation
But negotiations to secure a hostage release deal have largely stalled on both sides.


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Trial begins for suspects in 2024 Moscow concert hall attack that killed 149 people
Trial begins for suspects in 2024 Moscow concert hall attack that killed 149 people
A trial has begun under tight security for 19 defendants accused of involvement in last year's shooting rampage in a Moscow concert hall that killed 149 people and wounded over 600 in one of the deadliest attacks in the capital in years. A faction of the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the March 22, 2024, massacre at the Crocus City Hall concert venue in which four gunmen shot people who were waiting for a show by a popular rock band and then set the building on fire. President Vladimir Putin and other Russian officials have claimed, without presenting evidence, that Ukraine had a role in the attack. Kyiv has strongly denied any involvement.


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Unexpected Nordic heatwave catches tourists off guard
Unexpected Nordic heatwave catches tourists off guard
Nordic countries are emerging from an unprecedented July heatwave that disrupted tourism and shattered local climate records. Temperatures soared above 30?C for weeks, the Finnish Meteorological Institute said in a statement on Monday.




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Female frogs play dead to avoid mating? Some do, study found
Female frogs play dead to avoid mating? Some do, study found
Biologists call the response "tonic immobility," and know it's a response to a high-stress environment.


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Large-scale illegal wildlife shops in Laos found scamming Chinese tourists
Large-scale illegal wildlife shops in Laos found scamming Chinese tourists
LUANG PRABANG, Laos - "No coffee, no coffee," repeated the security guard. His smile stood in stark contrast to his faded camouflage fatigues and the machine gun slung over his shoulder. Few cafes in the sleepy Laotian tourist town of Luang Prabang boast armed guards, but Kin Liao Coffee is not the average cafe.


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Tesla board awards $30bn of shares to energise and focus Elon Musk - FT (No paywall)
Tesla board awards $30bn of shares to energise and focus Elon Musk
World's richest man threatened to quit as CEO of electric-vehicle maker if he was not given more stock


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Britain's crowd of ex-prime ministers are causing headaches for their successors
Britain's crowd of ex-prime ministers are causing headaches for their successors
Britain has cycled through a stack of leaders in the past decade, leaving it with an unprecedented eight former PMs still standing and frequently commenting on the person doing their old job.




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Trumps big, beautiful bill triggers boom for defence tech start-ups - FT (No paywall)
Trumps big, beautiful bill triggers boom for defence tech start-ups
Peter Thiel-backed groups such as Anduril and Palantir are set for paydays worth billions of dollars


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'They do not teach us what we need': Inside the expansion of religious schools for girls across Afghanistan | CNN
'They do not teach us what we need': Inside the expansion of religious schools for girls across Afghanistan | CNN
Afghanistan remains the only country in the world that prohibits girls and women from getting general education at secondary and higher levels.


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Bill Gates says rising anti-vaccine sentiment in U.S. will exact heavy toll overseas - STAT (No paywall)
Bill Gates says rising anti-vaccine sentiment in U.S. will exact heavy toll overseas
Helen Branswell covers issues broadly related to infectious diseases, including outbreaks, preparedness, research, and vaccine development. Follow her on Mastodon and Bluesky. You can reach Helen on Signal at hbranswell.01.


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Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds
Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds
A statistical analysis found that the number of fake journal articles being churned out by "paper mills" is doubling every year and a half.




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Sussex parents being held in Iran's 'worst prisons', says son
Sussex parents being held in Iran's 'worst prisons', says son
Joe Bennett says Lindsay and Craig Foreman have been held in solitary confinement.


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CrowdStrike investigated 320 North Korean IT worker cases in the past year
CrowdStrike investigated 320 North Korean IT worker cases in the past year
Threat hunters saw North Korean operatives almost daily, reflecting a 220% year-over-year increase in activity, CrowdStrike said in a new report.


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Senate committee opposes Trump's NIH cuts, proposes $400M budget increase
Senate committee opposes Trump's NIH cuts, proposes $400M budget increase
A Senate committee has rejected President Donald Trump's efforts to gouge funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), instead passing draft legislation that would actually increase funding for the nation's medical research agency by $400 million for the next fiscal year.


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AI Flight Pricing Can Push Travelers to the Limit of Their Ability to Pay - Bloomberg (No paywall)
AI Flight Pricing Can Push Travelers to the Limit of Their Ability to Pay
Airlines, including Delta, are testing artificial intelligence in pricing. Get ready for what one startup calls the "exploitation phase."




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UN plastic pollution talks must result in ambitious treaty, leading expert says
UN plastic pollution talks must result in ambitious treaty, leading expert says
Professor Richard Thompson, a marine litter expert, says delegates must act decisively to 'look next generation in the eye'


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London Stock Exchange considers 24-hour trading to stimulate market
London Stock Exchange considers 24-hour trading to stimulate market
Britain's main stock market operator becomes latest to look at extending its hours, currently 8am-4.30pm


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Jim Acosta interviews 'made-up' AI avatar of Parkland victim Joaquin Oliver
Jim Acosta interviews 'made-up' AI avatar of Parkland victim Joaquin Oliver
Artificially generated video of Oliver, one of 17 victims of the shooting, addresses Acosta in 'one of a kind interview'




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California farmers identify a hot new cash crop: Solar power
California farmers identify a hot new cash crop: Solar power
Solar is helping farmers in California save water and secure reliable income in the face of drought and economic pressure.


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Judges Openly Doubt Government as Justice Dept. Misleads and Dodges Orders
Judges Openly Doubt Government as Justice Dept. Misleads and Dodges Orders
Legal experts say the actions causing concern from the bench could have a more systemic effect, eroding the healthy functioning of the courts.


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MIT tool visualizes and edits "physically impossible" objects
MIT tool visualizes and edits
The "Meschers" tool from MIT CSAIL represents "physically impossible" objects commonly found in M.C. Escher's illustrations by converting both images and 3D models in 2.5-dimensional objects. The tool helps users relight, smooth, and study the unique geometries of these optical illusions.




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Kyoto University team develops pain reliever comparable to morphine
Kyoto University team develops pain reliever comparable to morphine
Morphine, often administered to cancer patients, has serious adverse effects such as breathing issues and addiction.


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This VC firm is striking gold, reaping $11 billion from Figma, other startups - WSJ (No paywall)
This VC firm is striking gold, reaping $11 billion from Figma, other startups
A string of large startup exits could send more than $11 billion in proceeds to Index and its limited partners at a time when the venture market overall is still struggling to generate cash.


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Teen Hannah Cairo's Mathematical Discovery Sends Ripples through Harmonic Analysis - Scientific American (No paywall)
Teen Hannah Cairo's Mathematical Discovery Sends Ripples through Harmonic Analysis
When Hannah Cairo was 17 years old, she disproved the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, a long-standing guess in the field of harmonic analysis about how waves behave on curved surfaces. The conjecture was posed in the 1980s, and mathematicians had been trying to prove it ever since. If the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture turned out to be true, it would illuminate many other significant questions in the field. But after hitting wall after wall trying to prove it, Cairo managed to come up with a counterexample: a circumstance where the waves dont behave as predicted by the conjecture. Therefore, the conjecture cant be true.


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The E.P.A.s Disastrous Plan to End the Regulation of Greenhouse Gases - The New Yorker (No paywall)
The E.P.A.s Disastrous Plan to End the Regulation of Greenhouse Gases
Nineteen years ago, toward the end of the George W. Bush Administration, the United States Supreme Court agreed to hear a case prompted by government inaction on climate change. The plaintiffs in the case, Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency, argued that the Clean Air Act compelled the E.P.A. to determine whether greenhouse-gas emissions constituted a threat to the public, and, if so, to regulate them. The Court, in a 54 ruling, essentially agreed. Richard J. Lazarus, a Harvard Law School professor who wrote a book about the decision, has called it the most important environmental law case ever decided by the Court. The ruling gave rise, in 2009, to whats known as the endangerment finding, which has formed the basis of federal limits on carbon pollution ever since.


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California could slash 5 GOP US House seats to counter Texas' move to pad Republican margin
California could slash 5 GOP US House seats to counter Texas' move to pad Republican margin
California Democrats are weighing new political maps that could slash five Republican-held House seats in the liberal-leaning state while bolstering Democratic incumbents in other battleground districts.


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What Kids Told Us About How to Get Them Off Their Phones
What Kids Told Us About How to Get Them Off Their Phones
Children who were raised on screens need more freedom out in the real world.




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