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独家报道：Cambridge 研究发现，社会环境压力可能会影响身体在怀孕期间维持健康运作的能力。一项研究发现，种族主义和匮乏带来的压力，可以解释为什么黑人女性在分娩期间更容易死亡。研究人员回顾了 44 项现有研究，探讨了与妊娠结果恶化相关的三条生理途径：氧化应激、炎症和子宫胎盘血管阻力，结果发现黑人女性在这三项指标上的水平更高。阅读更多...

• 针对日益增加的 AI 生成内容，Taylor Swift 于 4 月 28 日提交了新的商标申请，旨在保护她的声音和形象。 • 此举使 Swift 成为最新一位应对娱乐业 AI 深度伪造（deepfake）风险的名人。 • 这些商标旨在数字威胁激增的环境下，为其个人品牌提供保护。

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...