ITER Fusion Reactor To See Further Delays, With Operations Pushed To 2034

Full fusion power won’t happen until nearly 2040 on new timeline.

Capturing CO2 With Copper, Scientists Generate ‘Green Methane’

Using copper to convert CO2 to methane could be game changer in mitigating climate change.

Earth’s Core Has Slowed So Much It’s Moving Backward, Scientists Confirm

New research confirms the rotation of Earth’s inner core has been slowing down as part of a decades-long pattern.

New SnailLoad Attack Exploits Network Latency To Spy On Users’ Web Activities

A new side-channel attack that could be used to remotely infer a user’s web activity.

Japan Introduces Enormous Humanoid Robot To Maintain Train Lines

The 12-metre high machine has coke bottle eyes and a crude Wall-E-like head, as well as large arms that can be fitted with blades or paint brushes.

Wimbledon employs AI to protect players from online abuse

Threat Matrix service monitors social media profiles and flags up death threats, racism and sexist comments.

384,000 Sites Pull Code From Sketchy Code Library Recently Bought By Chinese Firm

Many website admins, it seems, have yet to get memo to remove polyfill.io links.

Google: AI Potentially Breaking Reality Is a Feature Not a Bug

While these uses of GenAI are often neither overtly malicious nor explicitly violate these tools’ content policies or terms of services, their potential for harm is significant.

No Leap Second To Be Added To Universal Time in 2024, IERS Says

Time is standing still.

== perhaps an answer to the question below? We intake a large amount of coffee and goodly amount the rest. Danger?
Coffee, Eggs and White Rice Linked To Higher Levels of PFAS in Human Body

Study that researchers say highlights chemicals’ ubiquity also shows PFAS association with seafood and red meat.

== a little and much too late I believe. Retardants?! How many others?
FDA Bans BVO, an Additive Found In Some Fruity Sodas

The food additive is modified with bromine, which has been used in small quantities as a stabilizer in some citrus-flavored drinks and which is also found in fire retardants.

== politics?
Chinese AI Stirs Panic At European Geoscience Society

Geology chatbot prompts complaint, firing of top European geoscientist.

MIT Robotics Pioneer Rodney Brooks On Generative AI

When Rodney Brooks talks about robotics and artificial intelligence, you should listen.

Coral reefs are vital lines of defence against hurricanes. But their future is in doubt

‘Nature’s sea walls’ help protect vulnerable coastlines against erosion, flooding.

== bloody amazing!
Ants can perform life-saving limb amputations on each other, new research shows

Florida carpenter ants will bite off a nestmate’s limb to improve its chances of survival.

World’s oldest cave art found showing humans and pig

The oldest example of figurative cave art has been discovered in the Indonesian Island of South Sulawesi by Australian and Indonesian scientists.

== seen something on this before
Tech Industry Wants to Lock Up Nuclear Power for AI

Largest tech companies are looking to buy nuclear power directly from plants, which could sap the grid of critical resources/

== and more on the same
Utility Firms Go Nuclear Over Amazon Datacenter Power Deal

AEP and Exelon challenge electricity arrangement between power plant and colo DC.

== exaggeration?
If Intel can’t come up with a Qualcomm-killer soon, it’s game over for x86 PCs

Qualcomm’s introduction of the Snapdragon X, which runs every new Copilot+ Windows PC, has created an existential crisis for Intel. Can the x86 architecture handle the competition?

The Best Way to Rehydrate Quickly When You’re Super Hot and Sweaty

Because heat illness is no joke.

Paleontologists Tag and Track Dinosaur Bones With RFID

The simple tech could prevent lost fossils and make paper logs extinct.

US prepares for bird flu pandemic with $176M Moderna vaccine deal

Phase 3 trial is expected to begin next year.

Scientists Find Desert Moss ‘That Can Survive On Mars’

Moss that grows in Mojave desert and Antarctica may help establish life on the red planet, researchers say.

Over 14 Million Servers May Be Vulnerable To OpenSSH’s ‘RegreSSHion’ RCE Flaw

An unauthenticated remote code execution in OpenSSH’s server (sshd) that grants full root access.

British Startup Nyobolt Demos 4-Minute Battery Charging For EVs

The materials used to make the batteries’ anodes allow for a faster transfer of electrons.

== yjc, that cold snap took a number of our plants
Okanagan fruit farmers switch crops in attempt to salvage season

Cold snap in January decimated peach, apricot and cherry trees in the region.

== yjc
Visual Vocabulary

There are so many ways to visualise data – how do we know which one to pick?

Canned water made from air and sunlight to hit US stores in September

A hydropanel can generate about three liters of pure water in a day, sufficient to meet needs of one individual.

CocoaPods Vulnerabilities Could Hit Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, TikTok, Snap and More

Some of the most widely used web and social media applications could be vulnerable to the newly discovered CocoaPods vulnerability - including potentially millions of Apple devices.

== yjc
Beekeeper looks for answers after 1.2 million bees suddenly drop dead

Dawn Lalonde of Mikkola Family Farm & Apiary in Lively is raising money to send samples of the dead bees to a lab for further testing.

== yjc, found this interesting, certainly had no idea
Fuelling the Tour de France: Secrets of the team kitchens

Not so long ago, the professional cycling world’s approach to fuelling was remarkably basic.

EVs still have major quality problems, and it’s mostly about the software

You’re telling me a giant computer on wheels is buggy? Who could have predicted?

Combined COVID-flu vaccines are coming

First large trial suggests mRNA drug gives better protection from SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses than single-target shots.

== seen most of this before, but…
How is climate change affecting hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones?

Tropical cyclones are characterised by very high wind speeds, heavy rainfall, and storm surges.

Arctic ‘dirty fuel’ ban for ships comes into force

HFO is particularly damaging in the Arctic, where the black carbon it emits when burned speeds up the melting of snow and ice.

A ‘Safe’ Chemical in Plastic Bottles Could Reduce Insulin Responsiveness, Increase Diabetes Risk

Findings are first to provide evidence that chemical’s administration increases type 2 diabetes risk.

New Undersea Power Cables Could Carry Green Energy From Country to Country

What if across the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, six high-voltage power cables – each over 2,000 miles long – stretched between Europe and North America.

Goats are helping Niagara Parks mow down a big problem

A small herd could be the solution to invasive plants spreading in Fort Erie, Ont.

Fuel From Water? Visiting a Texas ‘Green Hydrogen’ Plant

This process could represent the biggest change in how fuel for planes, ships, trains and trucks is made since the first internal combustion engine fired up in the 19th century.

Could We Lower The Carbon Footprint of Data Centers By Launching Them Into Space?

A feasibility study confirmed deploying data centers into space could offer a more sustainable solution for hosting and processing data.

Colorado’s Universal Basic Income Experiment Gets Surprising Results

The percentage of people who had housing at the 10-month check-in of the Denver Basic Income Project climbed to 45%

Colorado Law To Ban Everyday Products With PFAS

Items containing ‘forever chemicals’ linked to cancer risk, lower fertility and developmental delays.

How H5N1 avian flu went global

And what scientists are bracing for next

South African Researchers Test Use of Nuclear Technology To Curb Rhino Poaching

Researchers in South Africa have injected radioactive material into the horns of 20 rhinos as part of a research project aimed at reducing poaching.

== yjc, interactive web site using Perl
The Greatest Social Media Site Is Craigslist

While the internet has morphed and changed, the controversial classifieds site has remained largely the same—hearkening back to a time when everyone online trusted each other more.

== more science related Lego
Lego made bricks out of meteorite dust

It’s part of an initiative to test how well moondust would work as a lunar building material.