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Staples from your bathroom or your first aid kit are now associated with PFAs, also known as forever chemicals. The good news? About one-third of the brands tested did not contain PFAS. This means that it’s clearly possible to make bandages without PFAs – and avoid the ones that contain the toxic substances, if you […]| TechTheLead
The famous Lenna image, of Playboy model Lena Forsén, can’t be used in any more research papers published on IEEE, the organization announced this week. They’re following on the tails of the Nature journal, which banned the Lena image back in 2018. Michel P. Frank revealed on X an email he received from IEEE’s Technical […]| TechTheLead
It sounds like a sequel to 1978’s Superman but it’s a really pressing issue today: the Earth is spinning faster than it used to. The change in the Earth’s rotation is a small one but big enough that it might lead to a so-called ‘negative leap second’. That means that, a couple of years from […]| TechTheLead