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13 hours ago | 
thecooldown.com | Juliette Portala
Things are getting heated in Southern California, where one Redditor is fighting the homeowners association that controls their property over what they consider to be "details.""There's a lot going on in the world right now. The fact that my front door is a natural dark green should not be a huge concern," the OP wrote to the members of an anti-HOA subreddit. "The HOA is also pissed because I have a little manual push lawn mower in my backyard," they said.
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14 hours ago | 
sciencebusiness.net | Juliette Portala
The French government has launched a platform to pair universities and research organisations with international researchers looking to relocate. Called Choose France for Science, the platform is particularly interested in attracting researchers working in areas related to health, climate change, digital technologies and space. While created as a response to the mounting pressure on US scientists, the initiative will be open to all.
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18 hours ago | 
sciencebusiness.net | Juliette Portala
The rise of authoritarian political movements worldwide is pushing the European Commission to reorganise funding priorities for research, with several new calls for proposals on threats to democracy set to feature in the last two years of Horizon Europe.
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2 days ago | 
sciencebusiness.net | Juliette Portala
Quantum technologies are heralded by the European Commission as key for the future security and prosperity of Europe. But Europe’s investors are heading in the opposite direction. According to a recent report from the European Quantum Industry Consortium (QuIC), investment in Europe’s quantum start-ups fell by 40% between 2023 and 2024. In the US, meanwhile, it tripled over the same period.
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5 days ago | 
thecooldown.com | Juliette Portala
"Super curious" about a giant vessel that they observed in Hilo Bay, Hawaiʻi, one Reddit user shared pictures of what they described as a "weird ship" with members of the subreddit r/BigIsland. The ship is certainly a beast, which some Redditors know all about. "That's the Shinkai — a superyacht designed by Vitruvius and built in 2021 by Feadship in the Netherlands,"one commented.
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1 week ago | 
thecooldown.com | Juliette Portala
Nature is fascinating. And we will never stop learning from its residents, including the smallest. One Reddit user shared pictures of a behavior that probably few of us have had the chance to observe, writing: "What is the insect in the bee's back? It looks like a smaller bee, but is it really little bee hitchhiker and not some sort of parasitic species?""Two bee, or not two bee," that was the question from one member of the r/gardening subreddit.
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1 week ago | 
sciencebusiness.net | Juliette Portala
As the EU’s champion of basic, curiosity-driven research, the European Research Council (ERC) is struggling to find its place in a policy discourse dominated by competitiveness. So, on April 10, it brought together Nobel prize winners and industry leaders, amongst others, for a high-level event in Brussels to discuss how innovation is built on basic research.
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1 week ago | 
thecooldown.com | Juliette Portala
Going off-grid is worth considering, but be ready to face high initial costs and delays in securing power and water. "My wife and I just closed on 10 acres of raw land in Mason County WA," one Reddit user shared. "I didn't intend on living off grid per se, but some hiccups in our plans is pushing me [in] the off-grid direction."Among those "hiccups," the original poster cited deep wells in the area. "I was quoted 45k for a well.
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2 weeks ago | 
sciencebusiness.net | Juliette Portala
Europe’s governments are divided on the role nuclear power should play in meeting the EU’s decarbonisation targets. Some argue that nuclear is environmentally inferior to renewable energy, and should take a back seat. Others think the two power sources should be treated equally. The balance in this argument will experience a small but significant shift with the likely appointment of Friedrich Merz as chancellor of Germany, a near certainty following the agreement of a governing coalition this week.
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2 weeks ago | 
thecooldown.com | Juliette Portala
When it comes to solving tenant-landlord disputes, the subreddit group r/legaladvice is the place to turn to. And the story that one Redditor decided to share with its members infuriated more than one of them. Paying or not paying? That is the question. In short, the OP's landlord hired someone to cut down small healthy bushes in their front yard, which were already there when they moved in and which they had since taken such good care of that their neighbors and landlord had never complained.
