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BBC
Policing in 'hopeless position' after court ruling on vetting, Met chief says: The High Court rules that officers cannot be dismissed for losing their vetting clearance.
Chelsea star Sam Kerr cleared of racial harassment : The Chelsea striker was charged over an incident at a London police station in 2023.
UK and US refuse to sign international AI declaration: It follows a warning from US Vice President JD Vance that excessive regulation could "kill a transformative industry."
Kate meets new mothers and babies on prison visit: The Princess of Wales has visited HMP Styal in Cheshire as part of her ongoing early years initiative.

CBC
Trudeau warns Vance about impact of U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau warned U.S. Vice-President J.D. Vance that punishing tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum will hurt his home state Ohio, a senior Canadian official said. 

We tracked N.S. power outages in 2024. There were unplanned outages nearly every day:

There were more than than 4,700 outages across the province last year.

Contractor in charge of failed Kingston causeway fix suing feds, engineering firm for $8M:

The contractor hired to rehabilitate a century-old bridge in Kingston, Ont., that was demolished after the failed repair job is suing the federal government and an engineering firm that investigated the incident for more than $8 million.

New York Times Science
Her Discovery Wasn’t Alien Life, but Science Has Never Been the Same: The internet erupted in controversy over Felisa Wolfe-Simon and colleagues’ claim of a microbe thriving on arsenic. Nearly 15 years later, she’s pursuing new research on the boundaries of life.

Scientists Detect Shape-Shifting Along Earth’s Solid Inner Core: The new research adds to the mysteries of the planet’s deepest interior region.

A Sweeping Ban on D.E.I. Language Roils the Sciences: President Trump’s executive order is altering scientific exploration across a broad swath of fields, even beyond government agencies, researchers say.

How Much Does a Dog’s Breed Affect Its Health and Behavior?: Here’s what scientists have learned about how a dog’s breed affects its health and behavior.

A Swearing Expert Discusses the State of Profanity: Timothy Jay, a scholar in the science of swearing, has a few choice words about why we curse and how to cut back (if you want to).


Visualizing Science

The oldest known human art is also the oldest known human attempt to record Nature.  This painting is 34,000 years old and was found in the Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave, which is the subject of Werner Herzog’s film: Cave of Forgotten Dreams. Herzog used a 3D camera to capture how the shapes of the walls were incorporated into the paintings.

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