The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists made the annual announcement — which rates how close humanity is from ending — citing threats that include climate change, proliferation of nuclear weapons, instability in the Middle East, the threat of pandemics and incorporation of artificial intelligence in military operations. (Associated Press)
Read MorePresident Trump signed an executive order that seeks to end gender-affirming medical treatments for children and teenagers under the age of 19. The directive, signed Tuesday, was the latest step the Trump administration has taken that examines social protections for the transgender community. (Archie, NPR)
Read MoreWhat was the nature of the moral collapse that turned this horror into a normality for the Nazis who ran these camps, a normality in which mass murder became, for them, all in a day's work? This is a question that has been touched on many times before but even now, some 80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, has yet to be fully comprehended. (Little, BBC)
Read MoreThe Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority board (HFEA) held a meeting last week and announced that scientists are close to growing human eggs and sperm in a lab, The Guardian reports. After publishing a set of proposals for modernizing the HFE Act in November 2023, HFEA outlined the positives and potential drawbacks of approaching a groundbreaking though ethically controversial milestone in the field of science. (Mocerino, Interesting Engineering)
Read MoreTransgender women are increasingly likely to be banned from the female category across Olympic sport after another leading candidate to become International Olympic Committee president backed a new blanket policy. (Wilson, The Telegraph)
Read MorePresident Donald Trump on Monday night issued an executive order targeting transgender service members and an array of other people, saying that the U.S. military has been “afflicted with radical gender ideology to appease activists” and that “many mental and physical health conditions are incompatible with active duty.” (Lamothe, Ryan and Horton, The Washington Post)
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