A vendor selling Street Sense, a local paper that covers issues related to the homeless and employs unhoused individuals as its vendors, takes a donation for a paper while wearing…
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4 east African countries are going for nuclear power—why this is a bad idea
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The east Africa region has the fastest growing population in Africa. Between 2013 and 2017, its growth rate was twice the African average. The region is…
Dutch initiative must turn the tables
We’ve had enough “transparency” and “dialogue” around fossil fuel subsidy reform. It’s time to change the defaults In 1964, US Supreme Court’s Justice failed to define pornography, but concluded that…
Metabolic biomarkers may aid mood disorder diagnosis
Metabolomic profiling may improve the differential diagnosis of mood disorders, according to a proof-of-concept study published online Oct. 25 in JAMA Psychiatry. Jakub Tomasik, Ph.D., from the University of Cambridge…
The longstanding mystery of Mars’ moons—and the mission that could solve it
Credit: NASA The two small moons of Mars, Phobos (about 22km in diameter) and Deimos (about 13km in diameter), have been puzzling scientists for decades, with their origin remaining a…
EU strikes deal on landmark AI law
EU negotiators nailed down curbs on how AI can be used in Europe but still seek to encourage innovation. EU member states and lawmakers clinched a deal on Friday on…
US rail to get much-needed facelift
Workers are seen at an Amtrak facility in New Castle County, Delaware in November 2023. Old-fashioned, slow, infrequent and often non-existent, trains have long been the poor relation of cars…
Amazon asks federal judge to dismiss the FTC’s antitrust lawsuit against the company
The Amazon logo is seen, Sept. 6, 2012, in Santa Monica, Calif. Attorneys for Amazon on Friday, Dec. 8, 2023 asked a federal judge to dismiss the Federal Trade Commission’s…
Text grows with everything still to play for
Sign up to get our weekly newsletter straight to your inbox, plus breaking news, investigations and extra bulletins from key events A new version of the centerpiece text being discussed at…
Prison bakery for enslaved people found in Roman Pompeii
Archaeologists have uncovered a Prison bakery during recent excavations in Pompeii. Pompeii was a Roman city in the modern commune of Pompeii, located in the Campania region of Italy. Pompeii,…
