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• The role of environmental factors, including metal exposure, in the development of obesity is gaining attention, suggesting that addressing these factors is key in combating the obesity epidemic.

According to reports in Bloomberg and the Telegraph, several major U.S.-based financial institutions have recently left the Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA)

The Russian-British satirist and author Konstantin Kisin has popped up in a video chat with Youtuber and podcaster Chris Williamson with a damning verdict on Britain’s prospects while being led headlong into the crippling consequences of taxation and a Net Zero fantasy.

In the depths of the Pacific Ocean, 470 kilometers off the Oregon coast, a drama is unfolding. Axial Seamount, one of the most active underwater volcanoes in the world, is swelling with magma

On Wednesday, Mukuku Village in Kenya got an unexpected visitor from space.

“Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” – Winston Churchill

Researchers used electromagnetic signals to steal and replicate AI models from a Google Edge TPU with 99.91 percent accuracy, exposing significant vulnerabilities in AI systems and calling for urgent protective measures

Todd Moss discusses the World Bank’s focus on ‘greenhouse gas’ reductions in its loans to poor countries. Thus, loans to Guinea Bissau aim at a 30 per cent reduction in its emissions

Gen Alpha is about to have some competition.

On September 19, 2011, Scientific American published an article titled What Will the Next Influenza Pandemic Look Like? As the authors noted:

an inflammation of both sides of one section of the spinal cord. This neurological disorder often damages the insulating material covering nerve cell fibers (myelin).

The history of New Year’s resolutions was recently summarized by Sarah Pruitt:

When Dr. Peter McCullough, Nicholas Hulscher, and I investigated reports of what is being represented to the public as a new clade of H5N1 bird flu.

School science lessons could be made less “Western” with “no more heroes” in Labour’s “woke” overhaul of the school curriculum

The UK Met Office claims to have a continuous record of temperatures at Stornoway Airport going back to 1873, 64 years before the airport was built

In 2017, the city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands deployed an artificial intelligence (AI) system to determine how likely welfare recipients were to commit fraud.