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Between 1945 and the entry into force of the Partial Test Ban Treaty in August 1963, about five hundred devices exploded in the atmosphere. The neutrons released by these detonations raised the amount of atmospheric carbon-14 in the Northern Hemisphere, nearly doubling it. This peak, reached between 1963 and 1965, has since been nicknamed the ... Read more The post Pre-1963 Nuclear Tests: A Birth Date Embedded in Our Cells Read by Forensic Doctors appeared first on Space Group.

Thirty-three billion euros. That is the amount the French state dedicates each year to what it discreetly calls “territorial cohesion,” without being able to establish a precise bilan or even draw up a simple dashboard. This is the finding laid out by the Cour des comptes in its annual public report, echoed by L’Express—a document ... Read more The post €18.5 Billion Wasted on Territorial Cohesion as Funds End Up Split Across Schemes That Are Financed Twice appeared first on Space Group.

Thirty-eight meters beneath the frozen surface of eastern Siberia, a ground squirrel burrow yielded in 2012 one of the Pleistocene’s best-kept secrets. Inside, immature fruits of Silene stenophylla, a small white-flowered plant in the carnation family, had slept for 31,800 years (with a margin of 300 years) according to radiocarbon dating performed by accelerator mass ... Read more The post 32,000-Year-Old Fruits Revived from a Siberian Squirrel’s Frozen Burrow in 2012 appeared first on Space Group.

And what if an AI renowned for its safeguards quietly served as the right-hand to research on viruses capable of killing? That chilling question is raised by Anthropic’s latest report, the company behind the Claude model. For several months, five researchers reportedly used this AI for work involving dangerous pathogens, while the company struggled to ... Read more The post Five Researchers Circumvented Claude’s Guardrails for Months on Deadly Viruses appeared first on Space Group.

On July 2, 1992, Canada ordered the outright shutdown of North Atlantic cod fishing off Newfoundland, in the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization zones 2J3KL. Within hours, about 30,000 people found themselves without work or income, in what historians still describe today as the most severe case of mass layoff in Canada’s history, affecting roughly 12% ... Read more The post Newfoundland Cod Collapse: Factory Trawlers Put 30,000 Fishermen Out of Work in 1992 appeared first on Space Group.