Study of 818 children finds that kids with autism have gut microbiomes that are hyper‑sensitive to diet, especially to synthetic polysorbate‑80 and carrageenan emulsifiers which disrupt microbial networks and key species, but not in neurotypical kids. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

'“This near doubling does not have a scientific basis,” says Bleich. “We are meeting or exceeding what we actually need from a health perspective when it comes to protein, so it doesn’t make sense.”' Science and US government parted company recently-ish. www.newscientist.com/article/2522...

This is absolutely amazing. Just think what a speck of dust from Mars could yield. royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

For those who didn't know (I admit, I didn't): "St. Clair, 27, is a conservative influencer and is the mother to Musk’s one-year-old son." www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Well... this looks kinda important! Walking just 3000-5000 steps/day can delay Alzheimer’s-related decline by around3 years, and 5000-7500 steps/day by up to 7 years — even if early disease markers are present. Every step counts. www.newscientist.com/article/2502...

"Sociological researcher Annie Kelly did her PhD in digital antifeminism and the far right..." This feels a bit like saying, "Hold on a minute while I fetch Mum; she's a theologian," to the Jehovah's Witness couple at the door. www.vice.com/en/article/t...

This brain has been left intentionally blank. www.snopes.com/fact-check/e...

archive.ph/dUr5n "Nearly all these discordant birds were genetically female but had male reproductive organs. However, the researchers also found a few genetic males with ovaries—including a genetically male kookaburra with a distended oviduct, indicating it had recently laid an egg."

Unpleasantly hot and sticky in London today, but thankfully nothing like this! archive.ph/UgmJu

@thepeoplesmindai.bsky.social www.reuters.com/sustainabili... Let's hope some of these tech players seeking to repurpose ageing power plants as data centres aren't US giants like Microsoft and Amazon!

@thepeoplesmindai.bsky.social www.lemonde.fr/en/france/ar... For the first time ever, there are now more female than male doctors (118,957 vs. 118,257)! in France. General practitioners lead the way with 52.4% women. Next up: breaking ceilings in leadership (as long as it's not Le Pen!).

This is an amazing piece of research. Maybe billionaire weirdos should stop leaching plasma from their children and fund more R&D on GLP-1 receptor agonists like tirzepatide, dulaglutide and semaglutide... www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful science-fiction/cosmic-horror subgenre. theconversation.com/it-is-becomi...

Oh look, another new kind of chemical battery that works really well and uses readily available/common materials. www.newscientist.com/article/2490...

The usual imagined route to AI singularity is AI-built-by-AI, but it could be about to get a huge boost from Chinese engineers. TBH, if it takes some of the wind out of the sails (sic) of US corporations and similar entities, it might not be such a bad thing. archive.ph/lm8mS

Remember, they jailed Al Capone for tax evasion, not for the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre or beating anyone to death with a baseball bat. presswatchers.org/2025/07/trum...

The road to fascism is lined with idiots telling you to stop overreacting. www.jackhopkinsnow.com/p/is-it-too-...

archive.ph/Mhn85 While I'd have thought having an arch enemy might actually enrich your life in many ways, I'm surprised cutting out arseholes adds only 2.5 months to your life. "Negative social ties may trigger a chronic, inflammatory stress response [...] which may impair the immune system."

archive.ph/CiTwz "French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife filed a defamation lawsuit Wednesday against Candace Owens over the far-right commentator’s repeated allegations that first lady Brigitte Macron was born a man." Good!

Ever get the idea that our planet is being terraformed by evil alien invaders disguised as billionaire oligarchs to make it more hospitable to their physiology but deadly to ours? www.rawstory.com/trump-clean-...

"As America pulls back, it will cede ground to authoritarian China as a scientific superpower, with all the benefits that confers. MAGA’s assault on science is not just about DEI, nor is it about universities. It is first and foremost an act of self-harm." archive.ph/aLSu6

Of all the technomagical wonders described in William Gibson's Neuromancer you might have been hoping for, the one you're getting first is the one the protagonist (and maybe you too) really didn't want: a cure for cocaine. archive.ph/B7o0N

Does this mark the end of civilisation or merely a rest before its next expression? www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

RFK, the proverbial child with a hammer... archive.ph/aTXRu

The real Muppets would do a better job than the muppets people voted for.

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m... Unfortunately, I think desensitising and isolation from the news is exactly what 'they' want. It will make it easier to continue with 'business as usual' models in the face of astronomical levels of migration and suffering caused by climate change.

If anyone's interested in getting more involved with climate change, here's a free short course from the University of Tasmania. Could be good for anyone contemplating a bit of a career change... www.utas.edu.au/about/news-a...

Ah yes, nothing says 'defending freedom' like a Trump stooge threatening Wikipedia because too many facts hurt his feelings. What's next -- banning dictionaries for 'Woke bias'? www.theverge.com/news/656720/...

Rick Beato on AI songwriters (songmakers might be a better term). It's interesting how the more he likes it, the more worried he looks... www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSsw...

'Uncharted territory' makes it all sound so exciting, doesn't it? www.newscientist.com/article/2472... “We saw record temperatures across wide areas,” says John Kennedy at the WMO. Reversing some of the resulting changes would take hundreds or thousands of years, the report warns.

I'd definitely call that a 'feature'! www.nbcnews.com/tech/apple-g...

This is where we are now. archive.ph/ZPYsy#select... "If the international order is to be preserved, then, it will have to be preserved, in part, from the United States. Certainly it will have to be rebuilt without it."

EVEN STEVE BANNON THINKS MUSK IS EVIL!!! www.yahoo.com/news/truly-e... “He is a truly evil guy, a very bad guy. I made it my personal thing to take this guy down,” Bannon continued. “Before, because he put money in, I was prepared to tolerate it; I’m not prepared to tolerate it anymore.”

Musk's Starlink satellites... HEY ELON, YOU'RE TERRAFORMING THE WRONG BLOODY PLANET! spaceweather.com/archive.php?... "What we're observing is a giant uncontrolled experiment in atmospheric chemistry.

The plot twist no one saw coming, apart for all those who didn't vote for him... time.com/7209901/dona...

Well, there you have it. Storms aren't real, just Woke propaganda. Our homegrown orangutan has mind-melded with the Magarrhoids, reason and evidence is now talky leftism. www.independent.co.uk/life-style/j... "It plays into the anti-Tory, anti-growth, anti-business global-warming narrative."

So, the chance of globally averaged temperatures warming by 4.4°C this century is small, but not zero. That's not as reassuring as I would have hoped. www.newscientist.com/article/2465...

Might actually get to see this one! www.newscientist.com/article/2463...

Carbon rations; those who don't use their allowance can sell the surplus to the 1% - wealth redistribution while reducing the global average carbon footprint with a single, simple, and fair policy. What's not to like? www.commondreams.org/news/rich-ca...

Optimists. They never bloody learn.

Great! I inhaled tonnes of the stuff as an undergrad... 😭 www.propublica.org/article/form...

The problem has ALWAYS been the lack of political will. www.salon.com/2024/12/30/h... "The obstacle isn’t technology. We have the technological knowhow and infrastructure to decarbonize our economy on the needed timescale."

I guess the real test of artificial general intelligence will be when it suddenly starts playing dumb... www.newscientist.com/article/2462...

Nice to finally find a list like this from which I've read more than half. www.newscientist.com/article/2460...