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On a quiet street in Monterey Park, California, a green and white “Yes to NDC” sign stood on a front lawn as volunteers went door to door, drumming up support from residents to vote in favor of banning new data centers in the area.They clarified the wording on the ballot in English, Spanish, and Chinese, and distributed multilingual flyers warning of the impact of AI-related data center development on increased power demand, industrial infrastructure, and the environment.Less than a month later, on June 2, Monterey Park voters overwhelmingly approved the ban in the San Gabriel Valley, east of Los Angeles,…
The European Parliament is expected to approve new rules to make it easier for farmers to grow crops gene-edited using new genomic technologies (NGT). Voting on the NGT is scheduled for June 17th. If the EU gives the green light, it would be a major policy shift. The city of Brussels has maintained a cautious stance on genetically modified organisms since GMO regulations began in the 1990s. From “Frankenfoods” to CRISPR crops Thirty years ago, GMO agricultural products were often referred to as “Frankenstein foods” or “Frankenfoods.” Environmental activists and some media members have warned that GMOs can cause allergic…
A neuroimaging study conducted in Italy found that autobiographical memories are represented across interconnected regions of the hippocampus and cerebral cortex, and that memories from closer periods in life tend to have more similar neural representations than memories that are more distant in time. They found that the right hippocampus encodes both event identity and temporal distance, and that the frontopolar and retrosplenial cortices encode the temporal structure of memory. The paper is neuroimage. Autobiographical memories are memories about a person’s own life and personal experiences. These include specific events that happened at a specific time and place, such as…
Circle of Blue by Victoria Witke June 17, 2026 Studies show that the upper reaches of the Great Lakes are at high risk for wildfires, and that large, hot fires can harm lakes in the region’s remote watersheds. Reason: Plants burn in fire. Scorching high temperatures make soils hydrophobic, causing erosion and increasing runoff into lakes. There are no longer any plants to filter the sediment that seeps into waterways. One area of concern is northern Minnesota, where dry and windy conditions are causing fires. In early June, lightning sparked three wildfires in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Preserve, leading…
Environmentalists have filed a lawsuit against Robeson County to stop the landfill from contaminating drinking water. According to the Robeson County Landfill, PFAS (permanent chemicals) are seeping into the county’s public water system. lawsuit It was filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality has allowed the landfill to expand over the years and now occupies 537 acres near the town of St. Paul. The complaint states that the Rocco Water Treatment Plant, located across the street from the landfill, supplies water only from four groundwater wells,…
When romantic partners cohabit, sharing similar feelings and perspectives about the transition can lead to increased relationship satisfaction. Recent research published in Social psychology and personality science Evidence shows that couples who are aligned on this major life event tend to be happier together. However, this shared perspective does not necessarily increase during the first 6 months of cohabitation. Living with a romantic partner represents a major life transition that both people experience at the same time. The physical act of sharing a home is a communal event, but different people interpret the experience very differently. Some may see this…
Silicon has powered computer chips for decades, but engineers are increasingly facing the material’s physical limits. To continue making electronic devices smaller and more powerful, researchers are exploring ways to combine silicon with new ultra-thin materials. One group of promising materials is known as transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). Among the leading candidates is molybdenum disulfide. Molybdenum disulfide is a three-atom-thick material that consists of a layer of molybdenum between two layers of sulfur. Single atomic layer removal For future transistors that combine silicon and TMD materials, manufacturers may need to selectively remove atoms from just the top sulfur layer, leaving…
Superconductors could one day help power a new generation of ultra-efficient electronics, but major technical obstacles have kept the technology largely confined to the laboratory. Now, scientists at Sweden’s Chalmers University of Technology have developed a new approach to one of the field’s biggest challenges: sustaining superconductivity at high temperatures while withstanding strong magnetic fields. This advance could bring superconducting technology closer to practical applications in electronics, energy systems, and quantum devices. Modern digital devices, data centers, and information and communication technology (ICT) networks account for an estimated 6-12% of global electricity consumption. As energy demand continues to increase, researchers…
When Congress approved a $1 billion Energy Resilience Fund for Puerto Rico in 2022, the money was desperately needed. Multiple hurricanes have devastated the island’s notoriously fragile power grid, and lawmakers envisioned using the money to support rooftop solar and battery storage systems that could provide strong backup power in emergencies. The Biden administration’s Department of Energy has developed a plan to distribute funds to about 40,000 low-income Puerto Ricans, many of whom live with health conditions that require access to reliable electricity. Biden officials envision a network of solar power and battery storage systems that would keep medically vulnerable…
Listen to the audio version of this article (generated by AI).Air pollution from New Mexico’s large, concentrated dairy farms causes an estimated $217 million in annual health care costs, with most of the damage coming from ammonia emissions that form dangerous particulate matter, according to a new study. of Learning before printing from Journal of Agricultural Resource Economics estimated for the first time the cost of air pollution to the state’s dairy industry and found that the health costs of raising dairy cows in concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) offset approximately 15% of the industry’s revenues. The researchers also used…