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What Will the Next Tech Rebellion Look Like? Ask the Luddites.

In an exclusive excerpt from “Blood in the Machine,” a forthcoming history of the movement: what the Luddites show us about how tech uprisings begin.

How Exxon Tried to Undermine Climate Change Science

Executives privately sought to downplay link between fossil fuels and climate change despite public pronouncements, WSJ reports.

New ‘Inverse Vaccine’ Shows Potential to Treat MS and Other Autoimmune Diseases

…has shown in the lab setting that it can completely reverse autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis and type 1 diabetes— all without shutting down the rest of the immune system.

Abandoned Apollo 17 Lunar Module Is Causing Tremors On the Moon

Every morning and afternoon, like clockwork, the surface of the Moon trembles with tiny “moonquakes.”

Space Industry Is Growing Faster Than Its Workforce, Analysts Say

If you’ve been curious about breaking into the space, uh, space, this could be the right time.

CubeSat Rocket Thruster Is So Small It Has To Be Made Like Microchips

A micro thruster developed at Imperial College is only 1 mm long.

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Superbugs threaten to make infections in hospitals impossible to treat.

Untreatable infections already kill patients in Canada. Now, physicians worry more are at risk.

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For the First Time, Research Reveals Crows Use Statistical Logic

The birds can associate images with distinct reward probabilities.

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Why producing a barrel of oil causes higher emissions in Saskatchewan compared to Alberta

Data shows Saskatchewan’s relatively high emissions intensity is getting worse.

Scientists discover how brain cells die in Alzheimer’s

Scientists in the UK and Belgium think they have figured out how brain cells die in Alzheimer’s disease.

Tesla Reinvents Carmaking With Quiet Breakthrough

To overcome the obstacles associated with this manufacturing technique, Tesla is collaborating with firms that use 3D printing technology to create sand molds for casting, which is cost-effective and allows for rapid design iterations.

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Astronomy Photographer of the Year

A photo of a huge plasma arc next to the Andromeda Galaxy has won this year’s prestigious photography prize.

California Passes Strongest Right-to-Repair Bill Yet, Requiring 7 Years of Parts

Repair shops must disclose if they’re using “non-authorized” parts.

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How software that tracks covid variants could protect us against future outbreaks

During the pandemic, Yatish Turakhia developed software tools to trace the evolution of new covid variants. Now he’s applying his techniques to other diseases.

Hackers Claim It Only Took a 10-Minute Phone Call To Shut Down MGM Resorts

The ALPHV ransomware reportedly used social engineering tactics to hack the international hotel chain.

NASA-Inspired Airless Bicycle Tires Are Now Available

The Ohio-based Smart Tire Company has started a Kickstarter campaign for its shape memory airless bicycle tires.

Conditions On Earth May Be Moving Outside the ‘Safe Operating Space’ For Humanity

This planetary boundaries framework update finds that six of the nine boundaries are transgressed, suggesting that Earth is now well outside of the safe operating space for humanity.

TSMC Arizona Chip Plant Will Be a ‘Paperweight’, Says Analyst

“The TSMC Arizona fab is effectively a paperweight in any geopolitical tension or war [with China over Taiwan] due to the fact that it still requires sending the chips back to Taiwan for packaging,”

Honda’s adorable ’80s microscooter is back and electrified for the 21st century

The Motocompacto will retail for ‘under $995’ this November.

Have the aliens arrived? NASA is trying to find out

Space agency commissioned a panel of independent investigators last year.

Electric Cooling Could Shrink Quantum Computers

Vacuum-tube effect might simplify cryogenic chambers.

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US Behind More Than a Third of Global Oil and Gas Expansion Plans, Report Finds

Study highlights conflict between Washington’s claims of climate leadership and its fossil fuel growth plans

FTC says Elon Musk ‘may have jeopardized data privacy and security’ at Twitter

The regulator has been investigating the owner of X since March.

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A grim report about climate change in Ontario was kept quiet for 8 months

Southern Ontario to see 60 days of temperatures over 30 degrees by 2080s: report

The most common oral decongestant in the US does not work, FDA finds

That means many of the OTC decongestants consumers in the US have been buying for nearly the last 50 years, according to the FDA, “failed to provide any benefit over [a] placebo.”

World Bank Spent Billions of Dollars Backing Fossil Fuels in 2022, Study Finds

Campaigners estimate about $3.7bn in trade finance was supplied to oil and gas projects despite bank’s green pledges.

California Lawmakers Approve Nation’s Most Sweeping Emissions Disclosure Rules for Big Business

The legislation would require thousands of public and private businesses that operate in California and make more than $1 billion annually to report their direct and indirect emissions.

Friends with benefits? These birds make strategic connections to get better food

Study finds wild jackdaws will ditch old friends — but not family — to access delicious mealworms.

Tantalising sign of possible life on faraway world

Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope may have discovered tentative evidence of a sign of life on a faraway planet.

Robots are trained to help revive coral reefs

“It’s a really special part of the world,” says marine biologist Taryn Foster from the Abrolhos Islands, 40 miles from the coast of Western Australia.

B.C. drought brings increased flood risks, far-reaching damage, experts warn

Drought ‘a sleeping giant of a natural disaster,’ says B.C.’s emergency minister.

To Build Their AI Tech, Microsoft and Google are Using a Lot of Water

But one thing Microsoft-backed OpenAI needed for its technology was plenty of water…

Asteroid Behaving Unexpectedly After NASA’s Deliberate DART Crash

An asteroid that Nasa crashed a special spacecraft into to knock it off course, is now behaving in a weird way.

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NASA’s ‘MOXIE’ Experiment Successfully Generated 122 Grams of Oxygen on Mars

Riding with the Perseverance rover, the instrument has proved to be a viable technology for astronauts on Mars to produce oxygen for fuel and breathing.