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Thousands join Stand Up for Science rallies across the US

Thousands join Stand Up for Science rallies across the US

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Stand Up for Science rally in Washington Square Park in New York City on 7 March James Dinneen Thousands of people in cities across the US protested the Trump administration’s cuts to scientific funding on 7 March. In New York City, more than a thousand people gathered in Washington Square Park, chanting, “Fund science not war!” People carried signs in support of science and deploring the cuts, including one that read: “Science makes America great.” The protest was one of at least 30 “Stand Up for Science” rallies in cities across the US, with more than 150 events expected worldwide. Researchers also walked out of laboratories as part of the protest. Since President Donald Trump’s inauguration on 20 January, the administration has cancelled or frozen billions of dollars of federal funding for scientific and medical research. Many of the cuts have focused on research related to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), as well as research on climate change and gender. The administration has also fired thousands of federal employees at US scientific agencies, including at …

Thousands of dead fish dumped on seabed after getting caught in trawl nets | UK News

Thousands of dead fish dumped on seabed after getting caught in trawl nets | UK News

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Scottish environmentalists are calling for urgent action to protect marine life after a video shared with Sky News showed the alleged illegal dump of wasteful bycatch. Warning: This article contains images of dead fish The film shows the seabed littered with thousands of dead fish, shellfish, and critically endangered flapper skate. Environmentalists say it is an insight into the true environmental cost of bottom-trawling for scampi. Large volumes of fish and other marine life are routinely caught in bottom-trawl nets used to sweep the seabed. Charities say the unintended bycatch is a particular problem in prawn trawl fishery due to the small mesh size of the nets. The fisherman, who took the video and asked not to be named, said it did not look like a one-off. Image: Rope tied around a dead flapper skate Image: The flapper skate close up Read more from Sky NewsJurassic dinosaur found in ScotlandMegaberg size of Gloucestershire runs agroundWild beavers make comeback “It appears to be multiple dumps because the fish are in varying stages of decomposition.” “I felt …

Scientists Find Evidence of Vehicles From Tens of Thousands of Years Ago

Scientists Find Evidence of Vehicles From Tens of Thousands of Years Ago

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Uncannily preserved in the sands of New Mexico, archaeologists have discovered the oldest evidence yet of a vehicle used by humans: drag marks, along with footprints, left in the ground that have been dated to 22,000 years ago. As detailed in a study published in the journal Quaternary Science Advances, these marks were left behind by a type of sledge known as a travois. Think of it as a wheelbarrow without the wheels. Typically comprising two wooden poles held in each hand at the front, and intersecting at the back in a V or X-shape, a travois would have been pulled across the ground, carrying meat, game or other supplies. Their usage is well-known to scientists — but this is by far the oldest example, predating the invention of the wheeled vehicle in Mesopotamia by some 17,000 years, according to researchers. “There’s nothing this old,” study author Matthew Bennett at the University of Bournemouth told New Scientist. The ancient runnels, as the authors describe them, were discovered in the dried mud of a bygone lake in …

Thousands of datasets from Data.gov have disappeared since Trump’s inauguration. What’s going on?

Thousands of datasets from Data.gov have disappeared since Trump’s inauguration. What’s going on?

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Since President Trump was sworn into office, almost three thousand datasets have disappeared from Data.gov, the U.S. government’s repository of open data. According to 404 Media, online archivist communities discovered since Trump took office on Jan. 21, the number of datasets on Data.gov has decreased to 305,564 from 307,854 datasets. Screenshots of Data.gov’s homepage archived in the Wayback Machine show the number of datasets one day before (Jan. 20) and nine days after (Jan. 30) the Trump administration began. The outlet spoke with digital archivists who are working to identify what was deleted and why. But the answer is more complex than straight up propagandist data scrubbing. “While some of the deletions are surely malicious information scrubbing, some are likely routine artifacts of an administration change, and they are working to determine which is which,” said the investigation. Mashable Light Speed SEE ALSO: Office of Gun Violence Prevention website goes dark under Trump The reason for why datasets have disappeared could be link rot, i.e. links that no longer work because the URL has been …

‘We have let down thousands of SEND children’

‘We have let down thousands of SEND children’

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Former schools minister says there are ‘still too many children for whom mainstream education isn’t appropriate’ Former schools minister says there are ‘still too many children for whom mainstream education isn’t appropriate’ Former schools minister Nick Gibb said today “we have let down thousands” of children with special educational needs who needed a “very specialist approach”. Gibb, speaking at the BETT conference, said while some children with SEND flourished in mainstream classrooms, there are “still too many children for whom either mainstream education isn’t appropriate for their needs. Or the school simply doesn’t have the expertise and experience” to provide for those children.  “I believe that there are some children who need a very specialist approach to how they’re taught because of their special needs, and I think we have let down thousands of those children in the way that we teach them in our schools,” he added. “I believe in inclusion, but I also believe that the specialist nature of special education does require special schools.  “From those special schools comes the expertise that can …

Kia Concerned That Employee Forgot to Bolt Seats Down in Potentially Tens of Thousands of Cars

Kia Concerned That Employee Forgot to Bolt Seats Down in Potentially Tens of Thousands of Cars

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Hold onto your butts. Bolt from the Blue The sophomore year of Kia’s three-row electric SUV has come to a pretty inauspicious conclusion. This week, the Korean automaker issued a recall for nearly 23,000 EV9 electric cars for the 2024-25 model year after discovering that some of them had seats that weren’t fully bolted down — and all purportedly because of a single employee. Whoops. According to documents filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration last month, the second and third-row seat mounting bolts may be missing in EV9 cars manufactured between September 2023 and October 2024 at the Kia Autoland Gwangmyeong assembly plant in South Korea. As many as 22,883 vehicles may be affected. “Seats with missing seat mounting bolts may not properly restrain an occupant during certain collisions, thereby increasing the risk of injury,” the recall report states. My Bad But the most eyebrow-raising detail, as spotted by TechSpot, is the scapegoat for the huge screw up. In the recall report, Kia places all of the blame on an “error” made by …

Thousands of Cybertrucks Recalled for Bricking While Driving

Thousands of Cybertrucks Recalled for Bricking While Driving

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Just a small issue of the gas pedal suddenly not working. One Job If there’s one thing the Tesla Cybertruck can be relied on for, it’s not being reliable. On Wednesday, Tesla announced it was recalling around 2,431 Cybertrucks manufactured between November 6, 2023, and July 30, 2024, due to an issue with their drive inverters that can cause the vehicles to lose propulsion while driving. The recall represents roughly eight percent of the 28,250 Cybertrucks that have been sold in the US so far, according to Kelly Blue Book. Moreover, this is the sixth recall for the 2024 model of Tesla pickup, which only began being delivered to customers in November last year. Power Less Tesla recalls can often sound worse than they actually are, since in many cases they only need over-the-air software updates to fix. This latest one, however, sounds serious and will require owners to bring their cars into the shop. Due to a fault with certain drive inverters, which are components in EVs that control the power sent to the …

Thousands of People Are Cloning Their Dead Pets. This Is the Woman They Call First

Thousands of People Are Cloning Their Dead Pets. This Is the Woman They Call First

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Nine years ago, a pair of freshly weaned British longhair kittens boarded a private plane in Virginia and flew to their new home in Europe. These kittens were no different than any other, except that they’d been created in a lab. They were clones: genetically identical to their predecessor, now sadly deceased. It had taken seven months and cost $50,000, but that cat was one of the first pets to be commercially cloned in the United States. Since then, a couple thousand dog, cat, and horse clones have followed, and every year the waiting list grows longer. Of course it does. Haven’t you ever wished your pet could live, if not forever, then at least as long as you? Now it can, sort of. WIRED spoke to a longtime customer service manager for the largest commercial pet cloning company. She guides pet owners through the entire process, from when they send in a piece of the old pet to when they meet—remeet?—the new one. Half of our clients come to us after their pet has …

Mainstream could meet needs of ‘thousands’ more pupils

Mainstream could meet needs of ‘thousands’ more pupils

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More from this theme Recent articles The special educational needs (SEN) of “tens of thousands” more pupils could be met without an education, health and care plan and in mainstream schools if reforms succeed, a minister has said. Catherine McKinnell, the schools minister, told MPs that research published today suggested reforms could “pave the way for a sustainable system in which schools cater for all children, and special schools cater only for those with the most complex needs”. It comes after a devastating report by government spending watchdog the National Audit Office urged the new government to “explicitly” consider “whole-system” SEND reforms, warning the system is “financially unsustainable”. The Department for Education today released the first insight summary report from its Delivering Better Value in SEND (DBV) programme, a financial intervention for councils with large high needs deficits. Fifty-four councils have a DBV programme in place. For the report, 1,550 local practitioners and professionals analysed the stories of over 1,650 children and young people with SEND. Most pupils’ needs not met effectively They “highlighted that …

Thousands gather in Ethiopia’s capital to celebrate a religious festival. Many are thinking of peace

Thousands gather in Ethiopia’s capital to celebrate a religious festival. Many are thinking of peace

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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Thousands of Ethiopians gathered in the capital Thursday to celebrate an annual religious festival distinguished by the lighting of bonfires according to the beliefs of the local Orthodox Christian faithful. National celebrations of the festival, known as Meskel, traditionally happen in a square by the same name in Addis Ababa. It is one of Ethiopia’s most celebrated religious holidays, marked with rituals and merriment across the country. Festivities will continue until Friday, a national holiday during which the faithful attend church services and share intimate moments with their families. In celebrations of Meskel — a word in the local Amharic language for “cross” — bonfires are burned across the country. In Meskel square Thursday, the patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church lit a large one in the presence of thousands of believers in white costumes. Across Ethiopia, many gather in public squares and by churches to light similar bonfires from piles of logs, dry leaves and grass. Prayers and religious ceremonies are followed by a feast of “kitfo,” a …