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Urine From Music Festival Toilets is Fertilizing a New Biodiverse Forest With Odor-Free Nutrients https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/urine-from-music-festival-toilets-is-fertilizing-new-forest/

Urine From Music Festival Toilets is Fertilizing a New Biodiverse Forest With Odor-Free Nutrients
In a UK first, a new forest is set to be grown with fertilized nutrients recovered from urine collected at music festival toilets.

For those who have been hearing of a Fly Brain being uploaded, the work you've been hearing of is impressive, yet as always the pop science media has warped what happened a bit:
„The Fly Brain Breakthrough Is Real. The “First Brain Upload” Narrative Is Not.”
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The Fly Brain Breakthrough Is Real. The “First Brain Upload” Narrative Is Not.
Scientists mapped a fruit fly’s 139,255 neurons in extraordinary detail. Then a startup turned that milestone into a story about brain…

📢 Sieg im Riesenslalom: Forster holt zweites Para-Gold
Monoskifahrerin Anna-Lena Forster hat bei den Winter-Paralympics in Italien ihre zweite Goldmedaille gewonnen. Am sechsten Wettkampftag siegte die 30-Jährige in Cortina d'Ampezzo im Riesenslalom. Zum Auftakt der Alpin-Wettbewerbe war die Gesamtweltcup-Siegerin bereits Beste in der Abfahrt.
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Sieg im Riesenslalom: Forster holt zweites Para-Gold
Monoskifahrerin Anna-Lena Forster hat bei den Winter-Paralympics in Italien ihre zweite Goldmedaille gewonnen. Am sechsten Wettkampftag siegte die 30-Jährige in Cortina d'Ampezzo im Riesenslalom.

"Camera traps take first photos of rare island antelope on Zanzibar "
#Zanzibar #Animals

Camera traps take first photos of rare island antelope on Zanzibar 
Camera traps capture the first images in decades of the elusive Pemba blue duiker in Ngezi Nature Forest Reserve, offering rare evidence of the tiny antelope’s survival and boosting hopes for conservation.

Study finds microplastics in tadpoles in the Amazon for the first time https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/05/study-finds-microplastics-in-tadpoles-in-the-amazon-for-the-first-time/

Study finds microplastics in tadpoles in the Amazon for the first time
Researchers have recorded microplastics in frog tadpoles and their pond habitats in the wild in the Amazon for the first time, according to a new study. This confirms widespread microplastic contamination in the Amazon Rainforest, the researchers say.   Previous studies from the region have found microplastic contamination in fish, invertebrates, soil and water samples. […]

Interesting to hear about the newly approved Invercargill 'AI' cloud data center(centre?) mentioned in the media today. This is usefulish: https://www.odt.co.nz/southland/nzs-first-ai-factory-given-green-light-invercargill Doing a wee bit of d…

Chinese state media: CAS Cold Atom Technology has built the 200-qubit Hanyuan-2, the world's first dual-core quantum computer, with a core for error correction (Luke James/Tom's Hardware)
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry

China's Hanyuan-2 debuts as 'world's first' dual-core quantum computer — 200-qubit claims incredible power efficiency, but lacks critical performance benchmarks
Metrics and peer-reviewed papers seem to be lacking.

2026 NFL Draft first-round pick contract tracker: Jeremiyah Love, David Bailey among latest to ink deals

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2026-nfl-draft-first-round-pick-contract-…

"24 creatures get their first names and a shot at being protected"
#Animals #Conservation

24 creatures get their first names and a shot at being protected | The Optimist Daily
In Poland, 16 scientists gave 24 deep-sea creatures their first formal identities. Until now, none of them could legally be discussed, conserved, or protected.

"24 creatures get their first names and a shot at being protected"
#Animals #Nature
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24 creatures get their first names and a shot at being protected | The Optimist Daily
In Poland, 16 scientists gave 24 deep-sea creatures their first formal identities. Until now, none of them could legally be discussed, conserved, or protected.