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Crude oil residues may find new life in lower-cost carbon fiber

When crude oil is processed, a lot of grungy byproducts are left over. A new study indicates that a couple of those substances can be used to make low-cost carbon

A Win for Encryption: France Rejects Backdoor Mandate

In a moment of clarity after initially moving forward a deeply flawed piece of legislation, the French National Assembly has done the right thing: it rejected a dangerous proposal that

Arrests in Tap-to-Pay Scheme Powered by Phishing

Authorities in at least two U.S. states last week independently announced arrests of Chinese nationals accused of perpetrating a novel form of tap-to-pay fraud using mobile devices. Details released by

New USPTO Memo Makes Fighting Patent Trolls Even Harder

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) just made a move that will protect bad patents at the expense of everyone else. In a memo released February 28, the USPTO

The Guardian view on climate fiction: no longer the stuff of sci-fi | Editorial

A new prize recognises the power of storytelling to address the biggest issue of our timeNo novelist should ignore the climate emergency, Paul Murray, author of the bestselling novel The

Department for Education confirms launch of natural history GCSE

Campaigners have been calling for the qualification for years but plan stalled despite a curriculum being drawn upTeenagers may be able to learn about the importance of newts, bats and

The New Age Militarists

Alex Karp, the CEO of the controversial military tech firm Palantir, is the co-author of a new book, “The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West.”

WATCH LIVE: Trump, Hegseth deliver remarks from the White House

Hegseth is also scheduled to deliver remarks with President Donald Trump at the White House on Friday. ​Read More

Newborn’s death ‘due to gross failures of midwives’

The coroner at newborn baby Ida Lock's inquest highlights eight opportunities that were missed. ​ 

Crucial mRNA vaccine research at risk in the US

Scientists in the US who do research on mRNA technology worry their funding may be cut under President Trump. mRNA technology is the basis for COVID- and other vaccines and

Could AI help us build a more racially just society? | Sanmi Koyejo

We have an opportunity to build systems that don’t just replicate our current inequities. Will we take them?The notion that artificial intelligence could help reduce racism might seem counterintuitive. After