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Popular ice cream recalled in more than a dozen states over risk of dangerous material in packages

Popular ice cream recalled in more than a dozen states over risk of dangerous material in packages

Published by Daniella Wilson

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more A popular ice cream brand has been recalled in more than a dozen states over a risk of “metal foreign material” in the packages. With scoop season on the way, Americans should be aware of the potential dangers to their favorite frozen treats. California-based Straus Family Creamery recalled select flavors of its organic ice cream Thursday “due to the potential presence of metal foreign material,” according to a company notice. The company recalled flavors, including Dutch Chocolate, Vanilla Bean and Strawberry, “out of an abundance of caution.” A popular ice cream brand has been recalled in more than a dozen states over a risk of ‘metal foreign material’ in the packages (Getty Images/iStock) No injuries were reported to the company as of Thursday. Seventeen …

New material stores four magnetic states per cell – exponentially increasing memory storage

New material stores four magnetic states per cell – exponentially increasing memory storage

Published by Jenni Sidey

Every text message, photograph, and saved file still comes down to a simple bargain: information is stored as either 0 or 1. That binary system built modern computing, and for decades engineers kept improving it by shrinking the transistors that carry and store those bits. That long run is getting harder to sustain. As components approach physical limits, researchers are looking for other ways to handle information, including methods that do not rely only on electric charge. One of the most closely watched alternatives is spintronics, a field that uses another property of electrons, their magnetism, to store and process data. A new study from researchers at Institut Laue-Langevin pushes that idea in an unusual direction. Instead of building memory around two stable magnetic states, the work shows that a single crystal can hold four. In principle, that could let one memory unit represent four values rather than just 0 and 1, opening a path toward denser forms of digital storage. The material at the center of the work is a magnetoelectric crystal called LiNi0.8Fe0.2PO4, …

The First Atomic Bomb Test in 1945 Created an Entirely New Material

The First Atomic Bomb Test in 1945 Created an Entirely New Material

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During the Trinity nuclear test on July 16, 1945, in the New Mexico desert—the world’s very first test of an atomic bomb—a new material spontaneously formed. It was discovered only recently, by an international research team coordinated by geologist Luca Bindi at the University of Florence, which identified the novel clathrate based on calcium, copper, and silicon. It’s a material never before observed either in nature or as an artificial compound created in the laboratory. What Are Clathrates? The term “clathrates” denotes materials characterized by a “cage-like” structure that traps other atoms and molecules inside, giving them unique properties. Of great technological interest, these materials are being studied for various applications ranging from energy conversion (as thermoelectric materials capable of transforming heat into electricity) to the development of new semiconductors, to gas storage and hydrogen for future energy technologies. The New Material To discover the new material, researchers focused on trinitite, a silicate glass containing rare metallic phases. Using some techniques like x-ray diffraction, the team was able to identify a type I clathrate based …

Sennebogen shows off electric, autonomous material handler

Sennebogen shows off electric, autonomous material handler

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German equipment brand Sennebogen recently demonstrated a semi-autonomous material handling solution that combines an electric wheeled excavator, mobile battery, and a mobile shredder to improve throughput and efficiency in European recycling plants. First shown at the IFAT 2026 equipment show inMunich, Sennebogen’s electric excavator and mobile shredder semi-autonomous combo allows the shredder to communicate directly with the excavator and its operators, allowing them to coordinate material input and help increase process stability and repetition. That inpot process of material shredding has historically relied heavily on operator experience – even then, variations in material composition can make it extremely difficult to ride the line between overfilling and underutilization. Sennebogen’s new, autonomous process allows the shredder to tell the operator when it can take more, or when it needs to slow down, so they can choose to increase, decrease, or evem pause inputs altogether, helping the shredder maintain a steady pace to decrease wear and tear on the shredder while maximizing material throughput. Advertisement – scroll for more content In practice, that means the Sennebogen delivers more peak performance and …

Study suggests gut movement may flush excess material from our brains

Study suggests gut movement may flush excess material from our brains

Published by Sam Flores

With each step you take, coordinated contractions in your abdominal muscles help keep you stable and upright. Now, new research finds that those gentle changes in tension and pressure also affect your brain, and may play a role in the organ’s overall health. Imaging in humans and other animal species has long shown that the brain gently moves inside the fluid-filled skull cavity, but it’s never been clear what, exactly, is propelling this motion, said neuroscientist Patrick Drew, a Penn State University professor and associate director of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences. Using advanced imaging, Drew’s team observed mice brains before and after the animals began walking. They realized that the brain actually moved just milliseconds before a mouse took a step — the brief moment when the animal’s abdominal muscles contracted in preparation for movement. To test the observation, they strapped pressure sensors around the bellies of lightly anesthetized mice and observed the brain when slight pressure was applied only to the abdominal muscles. The same motion followed. Breathing or cardiac activity …

Australian schools ban Craig Silvey’s books after he pleads guilty to possessing child exploitation material

Australian schools ban Craig Silvey’s books after he pleads guilty to possessing child exploitation material

Published by Daniella Wilson

On The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly international news dispatch Schools in Western Australia have permanently removed books by Craig Silvey after he pleaded guilty to possessing and distributing child exploitation material. Silvey, 43, entered guilty pleas to a pair of offences related to possessing images of child exploitation on Tuesday, according to the ABC. Prosecutors dropped two other charges, including an allegation that he produced child exploitation material between February and June 2022. Silvey, who has three children, was arrested in January after detectives from the police’s child abuse squad raided his home in Fremantle, near Perth, and seized electronic devices. The court heard the writer had communicated online with child exploitation offenders over several days in January and had refused to provide passwords giving police access to his phone, laptop, and other devices, according to WA Today. He was granted bail on a A$100,000 (£53,348) surety on the condition that he report to police three times a …

Ultra-thin new material shields spacecraft from electromagnetic waves and radiation

Ultra-thin new material shields spacecraft from electromagnetic waves and radiation

Published by Jenni Sidey

A shielding layer can do a lot of jobs badly if you ask too much of it. It can block electromagnetic interference but not neutrons. It can stop radiation but add too much bulk. Lastly, it can survive heat yet fail when bent, stretched, or shaped around real hardware. That tradeoff has become harder to ignore as spacecraft, medical systems, and advanced electronics move into harsher environments. In the new work, a team at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology, or KIST, says it has built a single material that tackles several of those demands at once. The result is a thin, flexible, 3D-printable composite that can shield both electromagnetic waves and neutron radiation. The research was led by Dr. Joo Yong-ho at KIST’s Extreme Environment Shielding Materials Research Center. The material combines single-walled carbon nanotubes, known as SWCNTs, with boron nitride nanotubes, or BNNTs, inside a polydimethylsiloxane, or PDMS, polymer matrix. What makes the design stand out is not just the ingredient list. It is the way the nanotubes assemble. Overview of 3D-printed …

New shield material thinner than a strand of hair, but blocks both cosmic electromagnetic waves and radiation

New shield material thinner than a strand of hair, but blocks both cosmic electromagnetic waves and radiation

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A 3D-printed, ultra-thin, lightweight, high-performance shielding material comprised of two nanotubes has proven effective as a shield against both cosmic electromagnetic waves and radiation. Shielding materials are a necessity in key modern industrial settings-such as spacecraft, nuclear power plants, semiconductor equipment, and advanced medical devices-to protect both equipment and personnel from electromagnetic waves and radiation. But electromagnetic waves and neutron radiation can only be blocked with distinct materials, which are often heavy and inflexible. A flexible film material that blocks 99.999% of electromagnetic waves and reduces neutrons by approximately 72% A research team led by Dr. Joo Yong-ho at the Extreme Environment Shielding Materials Research Center of the Korea Institute of Science and Technology(KIST) have developed a new, lightweight solution to this problem, by combining carbon nanotubes (CNTs), which block electromagnetic waves, with boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs), which absorb neutrons, to create a shell-structured, composite material capable of simultaneously blocking both types of radiation in a single thin layer. Credit: Korea Institute of Science and Technology Furthermore, by combining this with a polymer (PDMS), the …

AI-powered full material declarations crack the PFAS code

AI-powered full material declarations crack the PFAS code

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Travis Miller, Chief Strategy Officer and General Counsel at Source Intelligence, discusses AI-powered full material declarations (FMDs) and their potential in PFAS detection and elimination. The global regulatory landscape is undergoing a seismic shift. From the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), governments are accelerating efforts to eliminate hazardous substances from consumer and industrial products. At the centre of this movement are per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) – a class of over 12,000 synthetic chemicals known for their persistence in the environment and potential harm to human health. The compliance crossroads For companies that manufacture, import, or distribute products, supply chain compliance has become a strategic imperative. The growing legal liability associated with environmental product compliance (particularly around PFAS) has reached unprecedented levels. Tens of billions of dollars in litigation settlements have been awarded, and many more cases are anticipated. In a landmark move, three of the world’s largest producers of PFAS-related materials have voluntarily chosen to sunset and obsolete their production lines. This has created a business continuity crisis. …

MEPs block tech firms from scanning for child sexual abuse material – POLITICO

MEPs block tech firms from scanning for child sexual abuse material – POLITICO

Published by Sam Flores

The center-right European People’s Party (EPP) mounted a last-ditch attempt to keep the scanning rules alive by filing an amendment to Thursday’s vote that would have aligned Parliament’s position with that of capitals. But lawmakers voted against the EPP’s suggested fix, deepening the rift between privacy proponents and child rights defenders. Leaders of Parliament’s political groups got a letter from four European commissioners on Wednesday, urging them to solve the issue and allow their members to break ranks in the crucial vote, POLITICO first reported. Merz, speaking in the country’s parliament on Wednesday, also called for the law to be extended. Large platforms Meta (which owns WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram), TikTok, Snapchat, Google, Microsoft and LinkedIn (owned by Microsoft) said in a joint statement last week that the EU’s inability to reach a deal was “irresponsible.” “Failure to act will reduce the legal clarity that has enabled companies for nearly 20 years to voluntarily detect and report known child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in interpersonal communication services,” the tech giants said, pushing for a solution …