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BBC
Driving test touts offer instructors £250 monthly kickbacks: Touts use instructor login details to bulk-book tests and sell them at a huge mark-up, the BBC finds.
Four arrested over defacing of Crown Jewels display case at Tower of London: The group Take Back Power says its members poured custard and apple crumble on the display.
'Life being stressful is not an illness' - GPs on mental health over-diagnosis: Hundreds of GPs in England tell the BBC they are also worried about a lack of help for patients.
Trans women will not be allowed to attend main Labour Women's Conference events: The conference will take place in 2026 after being cancelled for a year in light of the Supreme Court's gender ruling.

CBC
Some Halifax Explosion artifacts pulled from the harbour will have a new home:

Almost a year and a half after pieces of the Mont-Blanc were discovered during dredging in Halifax harbour, plans are starting to take shape for what to do with some of the wreckage from the famed ship involved in the Halifax Explosion.

Indigenous cultural belongings return to Canada from Vatican:

A delegation from the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation and four First Nations youth are accompanying 62 items on a flight from Frankfurt, Germany, to Montreal.

Montreal to honour 14 victims of Polytechnique massacre at ceremony:

A total of 14 women were murdered in the mass shooting on Dec. 6, 1989. Thirteen others were injured in the attack.

New York Times Science
Stampeding Turtles Might Have Made Fossil Tracks in Italian Cliffs: Researchers suggest that an earthquake spooked a mob of sea turtles gathered together in a prehistoric sea.

His Group Made World-Class Measurements of Atomic Elements: Yuri Ralchenko led one of the oldest teams at the National Institute for Standards and Technology. The fate of some experiments hangs in the air.

When a Murder Hornet Becomes a Tasty Meal: A researcher found that a Japanese pond frog is impervious to the stings of the northern giant hornet, even when it goes down the hatch.

Sterile Neutrino Prediction Muddled by Latest Experiments: Two papers challenged the existence of theorized particles called sterile neutrinos that might account for mysteries like the cosmos’s dark matter.

Trump’s NASA Pick Poised to Win Senate Vote After Do-Over Hearing: The president withdrew Jared Isaacman’s nomination to lead the space agency in June, but senators of both parties appeared willing to give him a second shot at confirmation.


Visualizing Science

The oldest known human art is also the oldest known human attempt to record Nature.  This painting is 34,000 years old and was found in the Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave, which is the subject of Werner Herzog’s film: Cave of Forgotten Dreams. Herzog used a 3D camera to capture how the shapes of the walls were incorporated into the paintings.

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