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Breaking: Trio of scientists win Nobel Prize in Medicine for work on immune system
Scientists Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi have won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for “their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance”, the award-giving body announces. ⌘ Read more

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Perth Royal Show attendance slumps to 10-year low, rain blamed
Attendance at this year’s Perth Royal Show has hit a 10-year low, as organisers blame “heavy downpours” amid complaints from vendors about a lack of support. ⌘ Read more

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Trump is reviving large sales of coal from public lands. Will anyone want it?
MATTHEW BROWN and MEAD GRUVER,  Reporters  -  Associated Press

_Stephan: The Trump Republican coup is not only putting Democrat controlled cities under military occupation, and dismantling the country’s efforts to convert to renewable energy, it is literally working to take the country back to the early 20th century when coal was a main source of power. This is why I predi … ⌘ Read more

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Massive system of rotating ocean currents in the North Atlantic is behaving strangely — and it may be reaching a tipping point
Sascha Pare ,  Staff Writer  -  Live Science

_Stephan: If you read SR regularly, you know I have been tracking the scientific research pertaining to ocean currents for years now, because it is going to have an enormous impact on the wellbeing of hundreds of millions of people, … ⌘ Read more

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The wealth of the top 1% reaches a record $52 trillion
Robert Frank,  Wealth Editor  -  CNBC

Stephan: When I tell you the United States has become a neo-medieval authoritarian oligarchy society, this is what I mean.

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Robert Frank, CNBC Wealth Editor. Credit: CNBC

  • The top 10% of Americans added $5 trillion to their wealth in the second quarter as the stock market ra … ⌘ Read more

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OpenSSH 10.1 released
OpenSSH 10.1 has
been released. Along with “a minor security fix” and some other bug
fixes, this release disallows control characters in user names passed via
the command line, adds better logging around certificate refusals, and a
new RefuseConnection server configuration option. ⌘ Read more

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Trump Administration Conjures Up New “Terrorist” Designation to Justify Killing Civilians
Nick Turse,   national Security Fellow for The Intercept  -  The Intercept

_Stephan: The media won’t openly say it yet, but the Trump Republican fascist coup has now placed Democrat controlled cities under military occupation, and they are developing a legalistic rationale allowing Trump’s Gestapo to shoot and kill people in the occupied cities. We … ⌘ Read more

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Chemists create red fluorescent dyes that may enable clearer biomedical imaging
MIT chemists have designed a new type of fluorescent molecule that they hope could be used for applications such as generating clearer images of tumors. ⌘ Read more

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Premier Lecornu tritt überraschend zurück
Nur wenige Stunden nach der Vorstellung einer neuen Regierung ist der französische Premierminister Sebastien Lecornu überraschend zurückgetreten. Präsident Emmanuel Macron habe den Rücktritt angenommen, teilte das Präsidialamt am Montag in Paris mit. ⌘ Read more

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Marape says PNG would stay neutral in any potential Australia-China conflict
Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape says there is a “high possibility” the country would not enter a conflict involving Australia and China, despite having signed a mutual defence treaty with its southern neighbour. ⌘ Read more

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Australian acitivists allege physical, verbal abuse by Israeli authorities
The Israeli government is facing accusations of mistreatment, including allegations that some activists were denied access to their lawyers. ⌘ Read more

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Frustrated families call for answers at Whakaari White Island inquest
A close family member of a tour guide who died in the Whakaari White Island eruption in 2019 has given an emotional statement as the inquest into the tragedy continues. ⌘ Read more

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Singapore PM gives condolences to families impacted by Optus outage deaths
Singapore’s Prime Minister, Lawrence Wong, offers his condolences to the families of four Australians who died during an Optus network technical failure last month, which impacted hundreds of triple-0 calls. ⌘ Read more

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France : dernière sortie avant la faillite
Le nouveau Premier ministre, Sébastien Lecornu, a été très clair : non, il n’y aura pas de taxe Zucman, on va simplement « taxer le patrimoine financier ». Pour ceux qui n’ont toujours pas compris (et ils sont nombreux), cela veut dire qu’on va ponctionner les livrets et l’assurance-vie. Eh oui : grâce à un subtil ajustement rhétorique, les […] ⌘ Read more

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10 Representations of Death from Myth, Legend, and Folktale
Death is one of humanity’s oldest mysteries—universal, inevitable, and endlessly interpreted. Across time and culture, people have tried to make sense of what comes next by giving death a name, a face, or even a personality. Sometimes it’s a cloaked skeleton with a scythe, sometimes a beautiful queen ruling a frozen underworld, and sometimes a […]

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Former Perth teacher on trial over alleged sexual abuse of boys with partner
WA’s District Court hears historical allegations a Perth teacher sexually abused multiple boys along with his partner, who was also a teacher. ⌘ Read more

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Richterin blockiert Weißes Haus erneut
Eine Bundesrichterin im US-Bundesstaat Oregon hat auch einen zweiten Versuch von US-Präsident Donald Trump, die Nationalgarde in die Stadt Portland zu entsenden, gestoppt. Statt Soldaten der Nationalgarde aus Oregon setzte Trump Soldaten aus Kalifornien in Bewegung. Das untersagte die Richterin nun ebenfalls. Der Fall wird wohl vor dem Höchstgericht landen. ⌘ Read more

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Late field-goal seals Newcastle Yowies dramatic Koori Knockout double
Yowies playmaker Kyle Laybutt kicks a mammoth field goal to seal victory in the men’s final, while the Yowies women keep a clean sheet in their grand final. ⌘ Read more

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Breaking: Prosecutors to appeal ‘manifestly inadequate’ sentence for Erin Patterson
Victoria’s Director of Public Prosecutions will appeal the sentence handed down to convicted triple-murderer Erin Patterson. ⌘ Read more

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Darwin man convicted of friend’s murder after remains found on city’s outskirts
Darwin man Timothy Hunt has been convicted of murdering Tony Rowe, whose remains were found on the city’s outskirts in May 2023, one year after he was reported missing. ⌘ Read more

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Chess world split over piece-throwing celebration
World number two Hikaru Nakamura has beaten the current world champion Gukesh Dommaraju and thrown his king to the cheering crowd, prompting the chess world to debate whether it was showmanship or disrespect. ⌘ Read more

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Family builds tractor museum to fund cancer research in memory of son
Oliver Crane was diagnosed with bone cancer and died at age 17. This week, his family opened a vintage tractor museum in his memory to help raise money for cancer research. ⌘ Read more

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iPad Mini 8 on the Way: Expected Features and Release Timeline
A new iPad mini is “absolutely” on the way, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. So what should we expect from the successor to the iPad mini 7 that Apple released a year ago?

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Processor and Performance

Apple is working on a next-generation version of the iPad mini (codename J510/J511) that features the A19 Pro chip, according to in … ⌘ Read more

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Wheat diversity discovery could provide an urgently-needed solution to global food security
Wheat has a very large and complex genome. Researchers have found that different varieties can use their genes in different ways. By studying RNA—the molecules that carry out instructions from DNA—researchers can see which genes are active and when. By mapping this gene activity for the first time, researchers are able to accelerate international wheat breeding programs, developing new varieties of … ⌘ Read more

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How marine heat waves reshape ocean food webs and slow deep sea carbon transport
New research shows that marine heat waves can reshape ocean food webs, which in turn can slow the transport of carbon to the deep sea and hamper the ocean’s ability to buffer against climate change. ⌘ Read more

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