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  • ● Google Is No Longer Promising It Won't Use AI for Weapons
    Google's artificial intelligence policy previously included a vow that the company would not pursue AI applications involving weapons, surveillance, technologies that "cause or are likely to cause overall harm," or anything that could violate international law or human rights. That language is now missing from the company's newly updated AI...... Read more »
    Source: Newser | Published: February 5, 2025 - 8:31 am
  • ● USPS Stops Accepting Packages From China
    Days after President Trump signed an executive order ending a popular "loophole" used by Chinese companies including Temu and Shein to keep prices ultra-low, the United States Postal Service announced Tuesday that it has temporarily stopped accepting parcels from China and Hong Kong. The "de minimis" exemption is a longstanding...... Read more »
    Source: Newser | Published: February 5, 2025 - 8:00 am
  • ● DOGE Staffers Enter Headquarters of NOAA, Another Project 2025 Target
    President Trump has nominated Neil Jacobs to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, turning to the man who was his acting NOAA chief in 2019 when Trump altered an expected hurricane impact map in what became known as the "Sharpiegate" scandal , the AP reports. After Alabama meteorologists had... Read more »
    Source: Newser | Published: February 5, 2025 - 7:30 am
  • ● Treasury Says Musk Aides Have 'Read Only' Access
    In response to the furor over Elon Musk and his DOGE team being granted access to a sensitive system used by the Treasury Department to make federal payments, the department said Tuesday that Musk's aides were given "read-only" access similar to what an auditor would receive. CNN reports it's the...... Read more »
    Source: Newser | Published: February 5, 2025 - 7:00 am
  • ● Trump Will Place Almost All USAID Staff on Leave
    As expected, the Trump administration announced Tuesday night that almost all USAID employees will be placed on administrative leave Friday night. Nearly all workers currently overseas will be pulled from the field and returned to the US within 30 days, other than those deemed essential, the AP reports. The official...... Read more »
    Source: Newser | Published: February 5, 2025 - 6:30 am
  • ● '50501' Protests Planned Across US Wednesday
    A movement to oppose the early actions of President Trump's administration is taking off online, with plans to protest across the US on Wednesday, the AP reports. The movement has organized under the hashtags #buildtheresistance and #50501, which stands for 50 protests, 50 states, one day. Many of the protests...... Read more »
    Source: Newser | Published: February 5, 2025 - 6:00 am
  • ● With Deadline Near, 20K Have Taken Trump Buyout Offer
    With the Thursday deadline rapidly approaching, only around 20,000 federal employees have accepted the Trump administration's buyout offer, Axios reports, citing a senior administration official. That works out to a little under 1% of the federal workforce, far below the administration's target of cutting the workforce by 5% to...... Read more »
    Source: Newser | Published: February 5, 2025 - 3:21 am
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  • Why do plants transport energy so efficiently and quickly?
    Photosynthesis -- mainly carried out by plants -- is based on a remarkably efficient energy conversion process. To generate chemical energy, sunlight must first be captured and transported further. This happens practically loss-free and extremely quickly. A new study shows that quantum mechanical effects play a key role in this... Read more »
    Source: Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily | Published: February 4, 2025 - 6:25 pm
  • Quantum machine offers peek into 'dance' of cosmic bubbles
    Physicists have performed a groundbreaking simulation they say sheds new light on an elusive phenomenon that could determine the ultimate fate of the Universe.... Read more »
    Source: Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily | Published: February 4, 2025 - 6:24 pm
  • Spinning neutron star gains enormous magnetic fields
    An international team of scientists have modelled formation and evolution of strongest magnetic fields in the Universe.... Read more »
    Source: Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily | Published: February 4, 2025 - 6:21 pm
  • Wobbling stars reveal hidden companions in Gaia data
    Using data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, scientists have found a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf. This is the first time a planet has been uniquely discovered by Gaia's ability to sense the gravitational tug or 'wobble' the planet induces on a star. Both the planet and... Read more »
    Source: Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily | Published: February 4, 2025 - 6:21 pm
  • New device uses electrically assisted wind to fight fires
    Researchers have developed a new portable tool that could improve how firefighters douse fires, making the process more efficient and far less risky.... Read more »
    Source: Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily | Published: February 4, 2025 - 6:20 pm
  • Straight shot: Hubble investigates galaxy with nine rings
    NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a cosmic bullseye! The gargantuan galaxy LEDA 1313424 is rippling with nine star-filled rings after an 'arrow' -- a far smaller blue dwarf galaxy -- shot through its heart. Astronomers using Hubble identified eight visible rings, more than previously detected by any telescope in... Read more »
    Source: Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily | Published: February 4, 2025 - 6:20 pm
  • New research on ancient life found in Yellowstone hot springs
    New work offers insight into how early life adapted from a low-oxygen atmosphere to the one that exists today.... Read more »
    Source: Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily | Published: February 4, 2025 - 1:34 am