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Swedish mother on the population crisis: “Children are seen as troublesome”
The Nordic Times
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July 3, 2025
An unprecedented low number of children are being born in Sweden, and the reasons are said to be numerous – from war, climate alarmism, and economic anxiety to fear of childbirth. Mother of four Anna Björklund argues that rapid digitalization and...
New Research Debunks Myth That Brain Cells Stop Growing After Childhood
Gizmodo
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July 3, 2025
You’ve probably heard the old canard that new brain cells simply stop forming as we become adults. But research out today is the latest to show that this isn’t really true. Scientists in Sweden led the study, published Thursday in Science. They...
Shock research reveals how types of birth can affect children's chances of getting CANCER
Daily Mail
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July 3, 2025
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER Published: 19:05 EDT, 3 July 2025 | Updated: 19:26 EDT, 3 July 2025 Babies born by planned caesarean section are more likely to develop childhood cancer, according to researchers. Those delivered that way were more than a...
Scientists Just Simulated the “impossible” — Fault-Tolerant Quantum Code Cracked at Last
ScienceDaily
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Quantum computers still face a major hurdle on their pathway to practical use cases: their limited ability to correct the arising computational errors. To develop truly reliable quantum computers, researchers must be able to simulate quantum...
Swedish Court Sentences Former Liberia Midfielder Dulee Johnson to Seven Months for Assault
Front Page Africa
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July 3, 2025
Johnson, 40, was found guilty of physically assaulting and molesting a woman during that period. Stockholm, Sweden – Former Liberian international footballer Dulee Johnson has been sentenced to seven months in a Swedish prison after being...
Sweden tests new anti-drone systems
Defence Blog
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July 3, 2025
The Swedish Armed Forces, in cooperation with the Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) and industry partners, have unveiled a new anti-drone concept designed to counter the growing threat of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) against ground targets....
Swedish start-up set to spice up indoor saffron farming
Food Navigator
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With demand for reliable, high-quality saffron expected to rise, start-ups are turning to vertical farming using controlled environment agriculture (CEA) to overcome the limitations of traditional outdoor cultivation of ‘red gold’ or the ‘king of...
NCC partners with SSAB for emission-free steel mill in Luleå, Sweden
World Construction Network
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July 3, 2025
NCC and steel manufacturer SSAB have entered into a partnering agreement to plan and execute the construction of a new emission-free steel mill in Luleå, Sweden. The proposed construction is for the eastern half of the new steel mill at Svartön in...
Accenture warns AI’s carbon emissions could surge 11-fold. But Big Tech’s still racing to build—and not slow down for sustainability
Fortune
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Welcome to Eye on AI! In this edition...Ilya Sutskever says he is now CEO of Safe Superintelligence…Chinese AI companies erode U.S. dominance…Meta’s AI talent bidding war heats up…Microsoft’s sales overhaul goes all-in on AI. As an early-summer...
Swedish government allocates hundreds of millions to World Bank’s aid fund
The Nordic Times
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July 3, 2025
Diesel cars have long been identified as losers in the transition to electric vehicles, but a new study shows that they actually retain their value better than electric cars. Over a three-year period, the value of certain diesel models decreased...
New research confirms that neurons form in the adult brain
EurekAlert!
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A study in the journal Science presents compelling new evidence that neurons in the brain’s memory centre, the hippocampus, continue to form well into late adulthood. The research from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden provides answers to a...
L&T Technology Services chosen by Traton Group as strategic engineering partner in global R&D transformation
Automotive World
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July 2, 2025
Multi-year collaboration in LTTS’ Mobility segment to drive platform synergies, electrification, and innovation for Traton Group L&T Technology Services, today announced that it has been chosen by the Traton Group, one of the world’s leading...
US Military is polluting world more than nations like Sweden and Portugal
The Economic Times
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July 3, 2025
A new study led by Ryan Thombs of Penn State University and published in PLOS Climate on July 2 reveals that the US military is the world’s largest institutional emitter of greenhouse gases. The research underscores how the Department of Defense's...
Deerhoof did not want its music ‘funding AI battle tech’ — so it ditched Spotify
The Verge
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July 3, 2025
On Monday, the long-running indie rock band Deerhoof made an announcement: it was pulling its music from Spotify. The impetus was Spotify founder Daniel Ek’s newest investment in Helsing, the German defense group that makes AI and drones. Helsing...
First genome sequenced from ancient Egypt reveals surprising ancestry, scientists say
The Rising Nepal
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By Ashley Strickland, July 3: In a long-sought first, researchers have sequenced the entire genome of an ancient Egyptian person, revealing unprecedented insight about the ancestry of a man who lived during the time when the first pyramids were...
How Norwegian lemmings rapidly evolved into a new species
Earth.com
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Thirty‑five millennia may sound like a long time, yet for a mammal, it is practically yesterday. A new study uses whole‑genome data to show that the Norwegian lemming, Lemmus lemmus, split from its Siberian cousin only about 35,000 years ago. “The...
Sweden orders RBS 70 NG system from Saab
Army Technology
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July 2, 2025
The Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) has placed order with Saab for the RBS 70 NG mobile short-range air defence system (MSHORAD), along with associated missiles. This procurement was officially recorded in the second quarter of 2025....
After US expansion, Canada’s Davie shipyard eyes Sweden icebreaker gap
Defense News
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July 3, 2025
MILAN — After announcing it was buying U.S. shipyard sites to build icebreakers, the Canadian shipbuilding company Davie is zeroing in on the need for such ships in Sweden. The intentions were made public in a recent LinkedIn post by Davie’s chief...
EU ‘lagging behind’ on new approaches to research funding
Science|Business
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July 3, 2025
EU countries and the European Commission aren’t experimenting enough with new ways to fund research, according to a member of the expert group advising the Commission on how to design the next Framework Programme. “EU countries are lagging behind...
EU regulators under pressure from tech giants and lobby groups to pause AI laws
Cryptopolitan
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July 3, 2025
With under a month before key chunks of the European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act start to bite, a coalition of both US and European tech firms is urging Brussels to hit pause. Groups representing tech firms like Google, Meta, and Mistral...