The Planet (on, and off)

A group of Bathurst Street business owners in Toronto is using AI-generated personas to oppose a proposed bus lane project that would eliminate parking spaces in favor of faster transit. “This may be the first Toronto transit controversy involving angry AI, but tensions have been simmering between drivers and, well, Read more…

Spain has ordered Airbnb to remove over 65,000 listings that violate rental regulations, citing missing license numbers and unclear ownership details. The crackdown is part of a broader government effort to address the country’s housing crisis, which many blame on unregulated short-term rentals reducing long-term housing supply. Most of the Read more…

A new study reveals that about 3.8 million years after the solar system’s first solids formed, Jupiter was twice its current size with a magnetic field 50 times stronger, profoundly influencing the structure of the early solar system. Phys.Org approached this question by studying Jupiter’s tiny moons Amalthea and Thebe, Read more…

There’s a lot of matter around, which ensures that any antimatter produced experiences a very short lifespan. Studying antimatter, therefore, has been extremely difficult. But that’s changed a bit in recent years, as CERN has set up a facility that produces and traps antimatter, allowing for extensive studies of its Read more…

The Danish government plans to evaluate the prospect of beginning a nuclear power programme. Unlike its neighbours in Sweden and Germany, Denmark has never had a civil nuclear power programme. It has only ever had three small research reactors, the last of which closed in 2001. Most of the renewed Read more…

The only nuclear power plant still operating in Taiwan was shut down on Saturday. People in Taiwan have grown increasingly concerned about nuclear safety in recent years, especially after the 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima, northeastern Japan… Taiwan’s energy authorities plan to focus more on thermoelectricity fueled by liquefied natural Read more…