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Correction note (12/23/22): A case has been corrected in this report. Key Findings The Citizen Lab, in collaboration with Catalan civil society groups, has identified at least 65 individuals targeted or infected with mercenary spyware. At least 63 were targeted or infected with Pegasus, and four…

Comment We are entering an era not just of unsafe abortions but of the widespread criminalization of pregnancy. June 24, 2022 Illustration by Chloe Cushman In the weeks since a draft of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization—a case about a Mississippi law that…

Wenn Sie eine Packung Freilandeier kaufen, tun Sie das in der Hoffnung, den Legehennen damit ein tierfreundliches Leben zu ermöglichen. Was Ihr zusätzlicher Franken konkret an Tierwohl kauft, ist je nach Label aber unterschiedlich und ziemlich kompliziert: Eine Bio-Suisse-Henne zum Beispiel bekommt…

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If the role of art is to interrogate civilization, the Eurovision song contest asks the one question that actually matters. The one question that’s still relevant after six savage centuries of slaughter and conquest in the notionally democratic West. It’s a question that’s usually posed in the dark…

One late spring evening in 2018, Justo Gallego Martínez said he would show me his grave. The old man was warming his hands by a stove in the dim back room of his cathedral. A dusty film coated the concrete floor. The shelves and tables were full of relics, screws, chipped wood, crushed glass,…

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Photo: Martin Schoeller This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. When Marjorie Dannenfelser first came to Capitol Hill, before she became the most politically relevant voice of the anti-abortion lobby, before she…

The leap of a frog is a quintessential evolutionary feat. The critter’s girthy gams thrust from behind to springboard the body up and out; a pair of acrobatic arms stretch forward to seamlessly break the fall. The landing is “very precise, very controlled,” says Richard Essner, a biologist at…

Herr Glogger, im Interview zum Start von higgs.ch sagten Sie, es sei besser, „mit einer Anstrengung unterzugehen“ als es erst gar nicht erst zu versuchen. Jetzt stellt das Portal für Wissenschaftsjournalismus nach viereinhalb Jahren den Betrieb ein. Was ist Ihr Fazit dieses Selbstversuchs? Beat…

Amsterdam, 2020. Fair­phone hat laut dem firmen­ei­genem Impact Report 18 soge­nannte „Indu­strie-Einfluss-Punkte“ dazu­ge­wonnen. Ihr Einfluss auf die Branche und auf einen „syste­mi­schen Wandel“ inner­halb dieser hat sich demnach in nur einem Jahr mehr als verdop­pelt. Ausschlag­ge­bend für…

In French, the word for potato is pomme de terre. This literally translates to apple of the earth. By this logic, potatoes are the lowest-hanging fruit of all. More seriously: We keep getting more and more interested in the all-potato diet. This is a diet where you eat nothing but potatoes (and…

Was ist das Problem? Ein großer Teil unseres Plastikmülls landet im Meer. Im Nordpazifik treibt eine Müllinsel, die viermal so groß ist wie Deutschland. Das kann verheerende Auswirkungen haben: Meerestiere wie Delfine oder Robben verfangen sich im Plastik und ersticken. Oder sie sterben, weil ihre…

Researchers used CT scans to figure out why these pumpkin toadlets are just no good at jumping. The inner ear system of these frogs is so tiny that they lose balance midair. Fortunately their main survival tactic to avoid being eaten doesn’t involve high-speed getaways, but rather staying in one…

A funnel for collecting urine in the home of Kate Lucy and Jon Sellers in Brattleboro, Vt.Credit...John Tully for The New York Times The Great Read A shortage of chemical fertilizer, worsened by the war in Ukraine, has growers desperate. It just so happens that human urine has the very nutrients…

In Zürich hätten sie inner­halb von fünf Tagen bei 40 SUVs die Luft aus den Reifen gelassen, teilen die Tyre Extin­gu­is­hers auf ihrer Webseite mit. SUVs und Gelän­de­wagen seien eine Kata­strophe für unsere Gesund­heit, unsere öffent­liche Sicher­heit und unser Klima. „Da Regie­rungen und Politik…

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Innovation in governance is needed to solve many of the world’s problems. But innovation requires entry. 200 years ago, America was the world’s most important startup. It disrupted the thousand year dominance of monarchy and created an innovative and valuable governance package. But that was 200…

Einen Moment lang ist die Welt verkehrt. Wir müssen am Eingang die Handys abgeben und werden von Sicherheits­leuten in Empfang genommen. Sie führen uns in eine Turnhalle. Dort sitzen wir in Reih und Glied, starren auf die menschenleere Bühne, knöpfen fröstelnd die Jacken bis unters Kinn zu. Und wenn…

When I was growing up in the 90s, I remember wanting to get on the Internet. My parents weren’t going to help me, so I called up an ISP and said I wanted to set up an account. They asked for my name and I gave them a fake name. And then they asked for a credit card number and I told them I had to…

In Pittsburgh, Memphis and Los Angeles, massive billboards recently popped up declaring, “Birds Aren’t Real.” On Instagram and TikTok, Birds Aren’t Real accounts have racked up hundreds of thousands of followers, and YouTube videos about it have gone viral. Last month, Birds Aren’t Real adherents…

I repaired a large digital x-ray detector and used it to record timelapse and stop-motion animations of plants, a clock, and a camera lens. Applied Science X-ray backscatter imaging system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7ldYhzKAp4 Applied Science CT scanner:…

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How is a traditional neon sign made? In the industrial district, we join the Neon Family to learn about the craft. Want to support more videos like this? https://www.ko-fi.com/stereokroma Did you know that #neon signs are making a comeback? That’s right, with so many years of safe corporate signage…

Color is among the most challenging aspects of our experience to describe. Spectrophotometers and colorimeters can quantify light waves, yet their measurements have little impact on our feeling for color. As the philosopher Zeno Vendler put it, “Vincent van Gogh loved the color yellow—and certainly…

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The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. Fourteen years ago, a dozen geeks gathered around our dining table for Tagsgiving dinner. No, that’s not a typo. In 2005, my husband and I celebrated Thanksgiving as “Tagsgiving,” in honor of the web technology that had given birth to…

There is hardly a boy or a girl alive who is not keenly interested in finding out about things. And that’s exactly what chemistry is: Finding out about things—finding out what things are made of and what changes they undergo. What things? Any thing! Every thing! —The Golden Book of Chemistry…

Quick side bar: Wikipedia defines a Ponzi Scheme as such: A Ponzi scheme (/ˈpɒnzi/, Italian: [ˈpontsi]) is a form of fraud that lures investors and pays profits to earlier investors with funds from more recent investors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme This is exactly how Bitcoin…

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Sitz des Schweizer Nachrichtendienstes NDB in Bern. Kann der Bund die digitale Überwachung nach einer vermeintlich harmlosen Verordnungsänderung massiv ausbauen? archivBild: KEYSTONE Unabhängige IT-Spezialisten, Politiker und Juristen zeigen sich besorgt: Über eine Verordnung, die der Bund ändern…

Sie reisen durch Europa, organisieren Demonstrationen, veranstalten auf Youtube Konferenzen und schließen sich zu Allianzen zusammen – seit Beginn der Pandemie versuchen einige schillernde Persönlichkeiten der Corona-Leugner-Szene aus Europa ein internationales Netzwerk aufzubauen, das eine verloren…

Australian cyclist Nick Clark built a loyal following at his Virginia bike shop, based in part on his national and international results and a lengthy professional career. There was just one problem: none of it was true. This is the strange tale of the unravelling of a years-long deception – the…