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www.xatakaon.com All the Data on Earth Can Fit in a Cup Full of DNA. This Is MIT’s Jurassic Park-Inspired Project

DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is the molecule of life. While there are other essential molecules for life as we know it, DNA holds a special significance...

All the Data on Earth Can Fit in a Cup Full of DNA. This Is MIT’s Jurassic Park-Inspired Project
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www.nature.com How climate change is hitting Europe: three graphics reveal health impacts

A growing body of research reveals the deaths and diseases linked to rising temperatures across the continent.

How climate change is hitting Europe: three graphics reveal health impacts
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www.theregister.com NASA finds humanity would totally fumble asteroid defense

Earthly politics and mission planning no match for fast-moving rocky orb

NASA finds humanity would totally fumble asteroid defense
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arstechnica.com Why Americans aren’t buying more EVs

Tariffs on Chinese EVs could increase costs while reducing competition.

Why Americans aren’t buying more EVs
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www.macrumors.com Apple Reportedly Suspends Work on Vision Pro 2

Apple has suspended work on the second-generation Vision Pro headset to singularly focus on a cheaper model, The Information reports. Apple was...

Apple Reportedly Suspends Work on Vision Pro 2
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english.elpais.com More than half of US Latinos worry about being able to pay rent or mortgage each month

Housing prices and inflation are taking a heavy toll on the Hispanic community, in which there is a general concern about not earning enough to make ends meet

More than half of US Latinos worry about being able to pay rent or mortgage each month
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www.the-scientist.com Searching for Life’s Simple Necessities Across the Asteroid Belt

NASA’s Europa Clipper mission will explore the characteristics of Jupiter’s moon Europa. Its data will help scientists assess if the icy body has the potential to host life.

Searching for Life’s Simple Necessities Across the Asteroid Belt
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www.ibtimes.co.uk Tesla Shareholders Approve Musk's $56 Billion Pay Package in Early Voting

Early voting results suggest Tesla shareholders approve Musk's controversial $56 billion pay package.

Tesla Shareholders Approve Musk's $56 Billion Pay Package in Early Voting
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www.nature.com The climate crisis is solvable, but human rights must trump profits

Huge planetary problems were fixed in the past, yielding lessons for the current climate crisis — yet this time a solution is justice.

The climate crisis is solvable, but human rights must trump profits
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www.cnbc.com Apple surpasses Microsoft as world's most valuable company after unveiling AI plans

Apple reclaimed the title of the world's largest company by market cap after an artificial intelligence-heavy conference sparked investor enthusiasm.

Apple surpasses Microsoft as world's most valuable company after unveiling AI plans
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english.elpais.com Conflicts reach highest peak globally since World War II

There are up to 56 active conflicts across the globe, with an increasingly international component: 92 countries are involved in wars outside their borders

Conflicts reach highest peak globally since World War II
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www.cnbc.com Norway discovers Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals

Alf Reistad, CEO of Rare Earths Norway, told CNBC that the discovery represents a "great milestone" for the company.

Norway discovers Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals
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One in five children on the planet is now overweight or obese.

english.elpais.com One in five children is overweight

According to new research, skipping breakfast or excessive screen time are risk factors for developing obesity

One in five children is overweight
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Why the 2024 Olympic Games may drive out Paris’ beloved booksellers
  • A battle is brewing between the city and its booksellers, who have been warned that the kiosks will have to be taken down for the Paris Olympics – an unprecedented move since the book stalls took up full-time residence along the Seine more than 160 years ago.

  • Sony Xperia 5 V review
  • Pros

    • Classic design, compact, lightweight, grippy, well-protected.
    • Excellent OLED screen with immersive aspect, 120Hz, HDR10.
    • Outstanding battery life.
    • Superb speakers.
    • The latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset.
    • Great photo quality across all cameras, day and night.
    • Dependable video quality, great sound, top-notch stabilization.
    • No-nonsense launcher based on Android 13.
    • Plenty of professional camera apps.
    • 3.5mm jack, microSD expansion, physical camera shutter key.

    Cons

    • No charger and no cable in the box.
    • No dynamic refresh rate for the screen.
    • No telephoto camera, no macro capabilities.
    • Throttles under heavy loads.
    • 128GB storage is the only built-in storage option.
  • The living things that feast on plastic
  • Scientists are scouring garbage sites around the world for bacteria, fungi and even insects that harbor enzymes that could be harnessed for breaking down various polymers. It’s early days, but if the efforts can be efficiently scaled-up, such biological recycling could put a dent in the plastic waste problem.

  • Italian man crushed to death under falling cheese wheels
  • An Italian man has been crushed to death under thousands of wheels of a Parmesan-style cheese, authorities said.

    Giacomo Chiapparini, 74, was buried when a shelf broke in his warehouse in the Lombardy region on Sunday, firefighter Antonion Dusi told AFP.

    The collapse created a domino effect bringing down thousands of wheels, which weigh about 40kg (84lbs) each.

  • New Player in Human Aging: Neural activity emerges as a factor in longevity.
  • A new character has stepped onstage in the story of human aging: neural excitation.

    The brain’s neural activity, long implicated in disorders ranging from dementia to epilepsy, plays a role in human aging and life span, according to research led by scientists in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School.

    The study, published on 16 Oct. in Nature, is based on findings from human brains, mice and worms and suggests that excessive activity in the brain is linked to shorter life spans, while suppressing such overactivity extends life.

  • Millions of American whites prefer a dictatorship
  • Rather than exist in a society where members of all ethnic groups have an opportunity for success, millions of American whites would approve of a dictatorship.

    Ten million would restore Donald Trump to the presidency by force.

    Recent polls show that Biden and Trump are tied in the presidential race even though Trump said he would suspend parts of the Constitution and construct an all-powerful executive branch with him as the head.

  • Japan records steepest population decline while number of foreign residents hits new high
  • Japan’s population declined in all of its 47 prefectures for the first time in a record drop, while its number of foreign residents hit a new high, reaching almost 3 million people, according to government data released Wednesday, highlighting the increasing role that non-Japanese people play in the shrinking and aging country.

    The population of Japanese nationals fell by about 800,000 people, or 0.65%, to 122.4 million in 2022 from the previous year, falling for a 14th straight year.

  • Paris to bring back swimming in Seine after 100 years
  • Banned for a century because of the filthy water, city swimming is set to be one of the major legacies of the Games thanks to a €1.4bn (£1.2bn; $1.6bn) regeneration project universally hailed as a success.

    Not only are three Olympic events - triathlon, marathon swimming and paratriathlon - scheduled to take place in the Seine in central Paris, but by 2025 three open-air swimming areas will be accessible from the quayside.

  • Now what? National election leaves Spain in a labyrinth
  • The parliament that emerged from the national election held in Spain this Sunday and which will begin a new term on August 17 will be the closest thing to a political labyrinth.

    Together, the two right-wing parties did not win enough seats to form an absolute majority (for which 176 seats are needed), and the possibility that the Popular Party (PP) and the far-right Vox could make pacts with other parties to reach it can be completely ruled out given Vox’s unwillingness to work nationalist formations.

    The left-wing bloc that has carried Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s government for the past four years did not win the necessary 176 seats either. For the Socialist Party (PSOE) and Sumar (a grouping of 15 small leftist parties) to form a new coalition government, they would have to come to some kind of agreement with Junts, a Catalan nationalist party.