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独占記事：ケンブリッジ大学の研究により、社会環境的なストレッサーが、妊娠中の身体の健康な機能能力に影響を与える可能性があることが分かりました。 人種差別や困窮によるストレスが、黒人女性の出産時の死亡率が高い理由である可能性が研究で示されました。研究チームが、妊娠結果の悪化に関連する3つの生理学的経路（酸化ストレス、炎症、子宮胎盤血管抵抗）を調査した44の既存研究をレビューしたところ、黒人女性においてこれら3つの指標が高い値であることが判明しました。続きを読む...

• テイラー・スウィフトは、増加するAI生成コンテンツから自身の声とイメージを守るため、4月28日に新たな商標出願を行った。 • この動きにより、スウィフトはエンターテインメント業界におけるAIディープフェイクのリスクに対処する最新の著名人となった。 • これらの商標は、増大するデジタル上の脅威の中で、自身のパーソナルブランドを保護することを目的としている。

Residents must sign in and out at a security gate, and vehicles and bags are routinely searchedGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastHundreds of evacuees from remote Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory have been housed behind temporary fences and denied visitors after being forced to evacuate their homes in the most vicious wet season on record.In March, the Daly River in the NT reached a record peak of 23.93 metres, forcing families from Palumpa and Nauiyu to flee for the second time in four weeks. Continue reading...

Tech giant accused of ‘cynical attempt to bust the union’ in decision to shutter location in Towson, MarylandWorkers at the first Apple store to unionize in the US are pushing back against the company’s decision to shut down the store by June, alleging the company’s decision is rooted in “a cynical attempt to bust the union”.On Monday, the union filed an unfair labor practice charge against Apple, alleging unionized employees at the store in Towson, Maryland, are being denied transfer rights and other rights compared with workers at non-unionized stores. The union is also alleging retaliation for being unionized. Continue reading...

Shooting reveals how political violence has become feature of American life on a night dedicated to press freedomAhead of this year’s White House correspondents’ dinner, conversations centered on the role of the media and freedom of the press as journalists prepared to dine with the president.Instead of a speech stacked with heated barbs against the media, the event ended like many in the US do: with gun violence. Continue reading...

Researchers find ‘alarming’ effect on fertility across global species from simultaneous exposuresSimultaneous exposure to toxic chemicals and climate change’s impacts likely generates an additive or synergistic effect that increases reproductive harm, and may contribute to the broad global drop in fertility, new peer-reviewed research finds.The review of scientific literature considers how endocrine-disrupting chemicals, often found in plastic, coupled with climate change’s effects, such as heat stress, are each linked to reductions in fertility and fecundity across global species – including in humans, wildlife and invertebrates. Continue reading...