Mussel feces could help clean up microplastics in the oceans.

Scientists have found that the blue mussel Mytilus edulis ingests microplastics and other pollutants along with its regular food, sequestering the pollutants in their feces.

Britain will start paying an unconditional basic income of £1,600 a month.

Scientists will see how this affects mental and physical health. The amount will be paid monthly to thirty randomly selected people without any conditions for two years. Two places were chosen for the experiment: Jarrow in the north-east of England and East Finchley in north London.

AI put 3,900 people out of work in the US in a May report.

However, this is a small fraction of the fact that the planned cuts in the US labor market in May affected 417,500 people - due to restructuring, business closures and cost cutting. The generative AI market will reach $1.3 trillion and lead to the loss of 300 million jobs by 2035, but labor productivity will grow.

The Chinese company Shenzhen UFO Technology invented the flying saucer.

iUFO is a large drone for one person. It flies for 15 minutes at a speed of 50 km / h at an altitude of up to 200 meters. They want to use the plate for tourist purposes - for sightseeing.

Swedish startup Luvly has come up with an IKEA electric car.

The compact car will be delivered as parts and assembled by the end seller. The car is only 2.7 meters long and weighs 380 kg. Inside there is room for two people (up to two meters tall) and a roomy trunk of 270 liters. Top speed is 90 km/h and range is only 100 km. The price is 11,000 dollars.

Smartphone ban.

Parents in the small town of Greystones in Ireland have voted to completely ban smartphones for children under 13. It is noted that the initiative took place without the intervention of the authorities - the adults simply agreed with each other to protect at least small children from the influence of the Internet.

Headset Vision Pro

Apple introduced the Vision Pro headset, which is controlled by the movement of the eyes, hands and voice. Some details about the Vision Pro headset: • Start of sales at the beginning of next year at a price of $3499. • Vision Pro can be synchronized with other Apple devices and applications. For example, broadcast your desktop from a MacBook. • There are no external controllers. For gesture control, you can hold your hands as you like. • The headset allows you to "turn off" the external reality and regulate the degree of access to it. • If EyeSight is enabled, the user's eyes will be displayed on the external display. • Vision Pro has a 2 hour battery life. • The M2 processors and the new R1 are installed inside.

The Japanese have created a ballpoint pen with a live parasite floating inside.

Anisakis parasite pen is a very specific souvenir as these worms can cause serious harm to human health. Despite this, anisakis pens are already available for purchase and find their customers.

Utah schools banned the Bible because of vulgarity and violence.

A school district in the U.S. state of Utah has removed a King James Bible from elementary and high school libraries because it contains "vulgarity and violence." The decision was made after a complaint from one of the parents. The Bible has been removed from shelves as part of a 2022 law that bans pornographic and obscene books from schools. In most cases, books on the topic of sexual identity and the rights of the LGBT community were seized. Prior to this, the Bible was removed from school libraries in a Texas school district. This is attributed to the efforts of conservatives to ban teachings on controversial topics.

Yuji Naka will go to a colony for 2.5 years.

Sonic creator Yuji Naka will go to prison for 2.5 years and pay more than $1 million in fines due to insider trading and fraud with company shares. In short, the game designer cranked up a scheme for trading shares of gaming companies - he bought shares, threw in some kind of insider information that was beneficial to him in the media, and, after the predicted rise in their value, he sold at a higher price, receiving additional benefits.

LEGO has created a full-size model of the Ferrari Monza SP1 from 380,000 bricks.

From a real car to a sports car - tires and a metal frame. The exhibit is located at LEGOLAND in Denmark.

The movie "Barbie" provoked a worldwide shortage of pink paint.

Greta Gerwig's upcoming film Barbie required so much pink paint that the world was in short supply for a while. Especially for the film, a life-size city of Barbie was built - Barbieland, almost completely made in pink.

Australia is developing a drowsiness test for drivers.

According to the researchers, the test determines with a 99% probability that a person has been on his feet for too long. Very soon, a version is planned that will take into account a clear number of hours of sleep. Which is very useful, because many accidents on the roads happen due to lack of sleep. Especially for truckers.

Unusual jeans.

Canadian store Canac has released reliable jeans for plumbers that save the buttocks from accidental exposure, and those around them from an uncomfortable spectacle.

NASA invites everyone to send a "letter in a bottle" to Jupiter's moon with the Europe Clipper expedition.

The names of the participants will be engraved on a special microchip along with the text of Ada Limon's poem "For the Glory of Mystery: A Poem for Europe". Applications are accepted until December 31, 2023.

Based on the "Sleeping Beauty" will remove the horror.

Horror "Sleeping Beauty: Massacre" based on the fairy tale by Charles Perrault. Work on the film will begin in August, the film will be released this year. The project involves Laura Hristova, Leah Glaiter, Lianna Lasso and other actors. According to the story, after the mysterious death of her father, the life of Princess Thalia changes dramatically, and the sorceress Velma captures his kingdom. She plunges the heir to the throne into a deep sleep. But one day the heroine wakes up and begins to take revenge. Warren promises that the film will be "scary and dark."

Beer ice cream was launched by the Belgian brewing brand Hoegaarden.

So far, lovers of unusual sweets are offered two flavors: peach and raspberry, but if sales are successful, others are promised. The strength of the alcoholic dessert is 2.5%.

The first ever live broadcast from Mars.

The broadcast took place on June 2 on the official channel of the European Space Agency on YouTube. During it, images from the planet were updated every 50 seconds for an hour. The picture was broadcast by the Mars Express station, launched 20 years ago.

Chemists improved the taste of wine with the help of gold.

Researchers have come up with a new way to rid wine of the bad flavors that are created by volatile sulfur compounds. To do this, materials with gold nanoparticles can be added to the drink. The technology was tested on small samples of red and white wine. After 24 hours of exposure, up to 45% of free hydrogen sulfide was removed from it, along with other undesirable substances, including methanethiol. The material with gold nanoparticles can be used on equipment in the wine production process, on filter devices, in decanters and bottles.

An unknown pathogen that eats the flesh of sea urchins could wipe out an entire population.

A mysterious epidemic has begun in the Mediterranean and Red Sea, which can destroy all sea urchins, and possibly coral reefs. It destroys the tissues of animals, from which only skeletons remain. Scientists suspect that the pathogenic ciliary parasite, a single-celled microorganism that wiped out the entire population of sea urchins in the Caribbean in 1983, was to blame. Scientists are calling for the urgent creation of uninfected broodstocks of hedgehogs so that they can be returned to the oceans after the epidemic ends.