Comment this story Comment The Department of Agriculture has announced new guidelines for products labeled “organic”, a term that has been increasingly misused as shoppers search for healthier and more environmentally friendly foods. The USDA has a strict definition of “certified organic,” allowing the label to be used only for products that meet certain standards …
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A government watchdog issued a scathing rebuke of the Home Office’s cybersecurity posture, finding that it was able to crack thousands of employee user accounts because the department’s security policies allow easily guessable passwords as ‘Password1234’. The report from the Office of Inspector General of the Department of the Interior, which oversees the US executive …
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A detector for the LHCb experiment under construction.Credit: Brice, Maximilian; CERN A once-promising clue to new physics from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest particle accelerator, has melted, dashing one of physicists’ best hopes for a major discovery. The apparent anomaly was an unexpected difference between the behavior of electrons and their more …
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A mysterious shock wave in a gust of solar wind sent a barrage of high-speed material shattering through Earth’s magnetic field, opening a crack in the magnetosphere. The plasma barrage could lead to a geomagnetic storm today (December 19), according to spaceweather.com. The origins of the shock wave are not exactly known, but scientists believe …
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