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Live updates: Death toll rises and thousands still missing in Nepal and China after catastrophic floods - CNN Trump says U.S. now has majority control of over 60 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil reserves - CBS News Strait of Hormuz traffic remains below normal as US sanctions pressure Iran - Fox News Kyiv launches criminal probe into arms depot attack that killed dozens - Al Jazeera Ontario premier answers Trump’s ‘Lake America’ with giant ‘Lake Ontario’ sign - AP News ‘I Made a Mistake’: El-Sayed Apologizes for Comment About Synagogue Attack - The New York Times British far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos deported by ICE - The Washington Post Why Syracuse Can’t Attract the Students It Needs to Pay the Bills - WSJ Thousands face days without power as San Antonio clears storm damage, residents seek relief - Texas Public Radio | TPR Trump cannot deport students for criticizing Israel, federal judge rules - CBS News Icelanders vote on whether they want to join the EU - NPR Israeli settlers surround Palestinian home in occupied West Bank’s Qusra - Al Jazeera Tens of thousands mourn King Harald V in Oslo as Norway enters a new royal era - NBC News 6 months on, Iran’s leaders are defying the US and signaling no tolerance for dissent - AP News Warsh, After Talking Tough on Inflation, Faces a ‘No-Win Situation’ on Rates - The New York Times OpenAI to end model access to Cursor after acquisition by Elon Musk's SpaceX - CNBC Freedom Fuel owner didn't pay for nearly $4 million in gas, lawsuit claims - NBC10 Philadelphia Lights out, Instagram off? The changes to Meta for teens could be a big deal - NPR Apple Might Skip the iPhone 18 This Year. Is the iPhone 17 Still Worth It? - CNET Samsung Galaxy S26 series receives seventh One UI 9 beta with Galaxy Z Fold8 series' features - GSMArena.com news - GSMArena.com GTA 6's gameplay reveal broke a streaming record, and also broke Twitch and Netflix - Eurogamer.net Pixel 11's Tensor G6 and Pixel 10's Tensor G5 still fall behind in performance per watt, testing shows - Notebookcheck See Ella Langley Pay Tribute to Dolly Parton With ‘Jolene’ Cover at Alabama Concert - Rolling Stone Olivia Rodrigo to headline Daisy Chain Fields, music festival with an all-women lineup in Irvine today - ABC7 Los Angeles The Night the Beatles Made a Glorious Final Stand as a Live Band - Rolling Stone Rumer Willis' Ex Says She Arrived With Police During His Custody Visit - Yahoo College football is back, and Bill Belichick's UNC has 'improved' - ESPN Pete Crow-Armstrong adds to his NL MVP case with three-homer showcase in Cubs win over Reds - CBS Sports College football Week 0 scores, live updates: Follow UNLV vs. Memphis as first day of action wraps up - Yahoo Sports After all the drama, Bill Belichick's surest bet is Bobby Petrino. Go figure - USA Today Nancy Grace Roman Telescope live updates: Roman and Falcon Heavy delivered to launch pad - Space When is the next lunar eclipse? - Space Friday Northern Lights Forecast: 10 States May See The Aurora Borealis Tonight - Forbes ‘Hobbits’ walked more like humans than previously thought, study finds - Archaeology News Online Magazine What We Know About Measles Deaths In Pennsylvania As RFK Jr. Cries Foul - Forbes Four baby goats at mobile petting zoo in North Carolina test positive for rabies - NBC News 3 states battling new measles outbreaks. What to know - USA Today He thought he had a sinus infection. An urgent care found something wrong with his heart. - CBS NewsBBC News
Iceland EU referendum on a knife edge as counting continues At least 37 dead and hundreds evacuated after strike on Kyiv weapons depot Cleverly quits shadow cabinet to run for London mayor Rescue to continue overnight for 'in distress' vessel carrying five in the Channel I've been to Gamescom six times - here's what excited me this year British heavyweight Moses Itauma stretchered out after shock defeat in gruelling world title fight 97-year-old woman rescued after Nepali floods looked like 'a warrior' Footage of Tibet floods isn't being shown in China - and we know little about victims there Satellite images reveal scale of flood devastation in Nepal villages What we know about the 33 British nationals missing in Nepal They fell in love - then had to check they weren't brother and sister Mount Fuji pics, life-changing ramen and a weak yen - why young Brits are going to Japan I was told I was unworthy to be a mother, then they stole my baby We all share a 15-acre Georgian mansion for the price of a two-bed house Six ways parents could make the return to school a little easier 'Healey eyes banks and oil tax' and 'X Factor comeback' Landlady to 9/11 hijackers reveals their links to alleged Saudi spy Canada installs large Lake Ontario sign in latest jab at US Sarah Ferguson expected back in the UK 'shortly', source says Man dies after train hits van on level crossing Norway's new king remembers 'my dear father' in first speech Christian festival 'devastated' as man dies after sign falls Normandy veteran who lied about age to enlist dies at 101 Murder investigation after man found dead and child seriously injured How to get £2,000 to play computer games at university Man tracks down siblings who sent him Christmas present as he fled war 33 years ago 'Keep walking': 100-year-old still does mile a day How a seaside town realised it needed public loos BBC News app Is ADHD And Autism Care Heading For "Chaos"? Canada tests the limits of Trump’s power Football in Greenland: The toughest championship in the world? Itauma punches himself out against Hrgovic in world-title fight Man City open talks with Liverpool over Gakpo £300m spent, bottom of the table... but Spurs boss De Zerbi 'not angry' Decision to curtail play at Lord's 'a joke' - Hussain 'Supporters aren't always wrong' - Moyes on Everton fans' anger GB's Fery beaten in his first ATP Tour final Cameron beats Mayer to become unified light-middleweight championFinancial Times (World)
US oil deal denounced by both sides of Venezuelan politics James Cleverly steps down from shadow cabinet to run for London mayor Warsh charts a forward-looking path for the Fed at Jackson Hole Trump says US to take control of 65bn barrels of Venezuelan oil Warsh puts Fed on collision course with Trump ahead of midterms Dozens killed in Russian strike on ammunition depot near Kyiv Swiss wealth managers urge delay to ownership register after Liechtenstein hack Trump deportations take a bite out of an unexpected industry: US fast food US campaign to isolate Iran closes in on Dubai What the Indiana state fair reveals about Trump’s America ‘In a flash, everything was gone’: Nepal rushes to rescue flood survivors Risk of a new age of financial repression is rising Football clubs’ race for data creates bright spot in Britain labour market The end of cheap food has costs far beyond the grocery store Raphaël Glucksmann, the French left’s new hope Zero-sum thinking will fuel resentment and scarcity How finance redeemed itself English wine reaps rewards of heatwave but extreme weather brings risk Fancy lattes whip up their own mini investment boom The brilliant trick behind Rome’s Big Four pastas American Scoundrel — Roy Cohn’s long shadow over the White House A pioneering voyage up Colombia’s greatest river FT stock picking game results: the unexpected triumph of fundamentals The Chinese brand that wants to lead Europe’s trail-running pack Kevin Warsh spoke — what did we learn? With Torsten SlokFinancial Times (UK)
James Cleverly steps down from shadow cabinet to run for London mayor Football clubs’ race for data creates bright spot in Britain labour market Zero-sum thinking will fuel resentment and scarcity How finance redeemed itself The Cumbrian shepherds racing sunrise to beat the heat English wine reaps rewards of heatwave but extreme weather brings risk Gatwick airport water supplies hit by burst pipe Middlesbrough crisis highlights challenges for small UK police forces Aberdeen fund takes £200mn hit on failure of UK broadband provider What Burnham told the FT Alleged vandalism on Trump golf course linked to terrorism, Scottish prosecutors say Healey to shelve his own defence spending target of 3% of GDP by 2030 Ministers embraced the ‘world’s safest phone’. Then it unravelled Bank of England likely to respond to high energy prices by end of the year Burnham retreats from call to return Parthenon sculptures to Greece Healey could suffer £4bn headroom hit because of lower immigration forecasts Plan to merge police forces falls foul of Burnham’s devolution agenda Sunak at 10 by Anthony Seldon — the reluctant prime minister Burnham’s high street plan is ‘delusional’, says Mike Ashley Alphabet agrees to pay £260mn to settle UK class action lawsuit US rebukes Europeans over ‘sea of red’ military gaps Cyber attack on UK’s largest airport group exposes data of 8.7mn customers Flat owners win ‘right to manage’ case at UK Supreme Court Autumn can’t come soon enough for home sellers ‘It’s like playing on concrete’: drought leaves sports pitches across England unplayableThe New York Times
Prediction Markets and States Clashed, Setting Off a Furious Political Battle Meta Projected It Could Spend $10 Billion on Anthropic’s A.I. Mark Zuckerberg Wants to Make Sure YouTube and TikTok Share His Pain Nvidia’s Profit Doubles to $59.69 Billion Thanks to A.I. Spending How Meta’s $17.1 Billion Social Media Settlement Came Together Influencers Have a Lot to Say About Politics. Many Are Quietly Paid for It. Prediction Markets Should Be Regulated as Gambling, Appeals Court Says Social Media and the Myth of the Big Tobacco Moment Why Countries Are Pushing Social Media Bans Despite Their Flaws Meta Shifts the Blame + Do Data Center Bans Work? + The Final HatGPT Trump Administration’s Blacklisting of Anthropic Was Illegal, Judge Rules What Meta’s $17 Billion Settlement Means OpenAI and 100 Others Warn That Window to Defend Against A.I. Attacks Is Narrowing “Anxious Generation” Author Jonathan Haidt on the Meta Settlement California Lawmakers Pass Plug-In Solar Bill Some Scientists Have ‘Magic Hands’ in the Lab. This A.I. Is Learning Why. What’s Changing For Teens on Instagram and Facebook After Meta Settlement What Does $17.1 Billion Mean for Meta? Meta to Pay Up to $17.1 Billion in Landmark Settlement Over Social Media Addiction Claims Bill Gates Is Warning That A.I. Is More Dangerous Than Big Tech Will Admit Gold, Flights, Cryptocurrency: U.S. Vows to Go After More Than Iran’s Oil Instagram Chief Says ‘No Silver Bullets’ for Teen Safety in Bellwether Trial SpaceX to Spend $100 Billion on Spaceport in Louisiana E.P.A. Moves to Curb Public Input on Air Pollution Permits for Data Centers Why Irregular’s A.I. Tests for Meta, Anthropic and OpenAI Went Off the Rails Laptop Fire on American Airlines Flight Injures at Least One Passenger After Hugging Face Was Attacked By A.I. Agents, It Embarked on a Crusade How Big Tech Captured American SchoolsThe Guardian
Egyptian queen’s 673-diamond necklace stolen in Vienna smash-and-grab raid What could Meta’s US settlement mean around the world – and what now for other claims against firm? UK urged to help free British-Egyptian ‘arrested in Cairo over sister’s activism’ South African police arrest two Thai men for allegedly smuggling parrot eggs Mpox is back – and in new countries. How can this outbreak be contained? Was it a mistake for 99 Colombian guerrillas to lay down their arms? Trump announces new US oil agreement with Venezuela Venezuelan opposition up in arms over reports US wants big stake in oil and gas Tropical Storm Dolly downgraded to ‘open tropical wave’ as it heads to Caribbean Detroit despairs as ‘insanity’ of Trump’s Canada trade war punishes city Search continues as number missing in Nepal-Tibet floods rises to 2,478 – as it happened At least 93,000 ‘in great need’ after Nepal-Tibet flash floods, says Red Cross Families of 33 missing Britons rush to Nepal as fears grow of more floods USS Abraham Lincoln to visit port in Thailand after more than 250 days at sea Nepal-Tibet flood rescue efforts resume after being halted by overflowing lake Australia news live: ‘we owe it to history’ to defeat One Nation, PM tells Labor faithful; man dies after falling from eighth-floor balcony in Sydney Australia could make social media algorithms optional and follow UK ban on pornography depicting strangulation Families balance hope and despair in race to find survivors in Nepal as 41 Australians still missing One Nation claims victory in Secret Harbour byelection in Western Australia August reveals Australians’ big appetite for weight-loss drugs, love for ‘dupe’ brands and an accelerating EV uptake Royal Navy spent three days tracking Russian vessels in UK waters Russian drone strike on Kyiv warehouse storing weapons kills at least 37 Laurie Anderson’s next manuscript to be locked away for 88 years in Future Library ‘Winter panic’: EU gas stores at their lowest level in 13 years Ireland will be united, says Gordon Brown Palestinian woman and NBC News team reportedly attacked in West Bank Bondi library returns book How to Sell a Genocide to shelves after State Library ‘outlines the law’ Trump downplays Moscow visit by CIA director as ‘semi-routine’ On scraps of land and under constant threat, Gaza farmers struggle to survive Iran seeks to criminalise all contact with foreign media in ‘chilling’ crackdown Number of missing in Nepal and Tibet rises to 3,000 as bad weather hampers search Nepal-Tibet floods: Nepal calls for technical support for rescue efforts as number of missing rises to nearly 3,000 – as it happened Daughter traces mother and aunt’s last known location in Nepal through TikTok video ‘Their whole village has disappeared’: frantic hunt for survivors in Kathmandu hospital Chinese control of information hampers assessment of Tibet flood damage Far-right media provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos deported by ICE from US to UK James Cleverly resigns from shadow cabinet to run for mayor of London Sarah Ferguson to return to UK after relocating amid Epstein revelations Cells for arrested offenders may run out without early prison release, says Labour Fourth time lucky as Chris Cantrill’s spoof whodunnit wins Edinburgh comedy award 2026 Fire in California’s Big Sur region doubles in size overnight, forcing evacuations Tennessee governor says he backs airport name change to honor Dolly Parton LAPD releases footage of death of man whom police handcuffed and beat Artemis II astronauts receive nation's highest space honor for their successful moonshot Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers says he saw Bin Laden’s body with his ‘own eyes’. He did notHacker News
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Briefing Chat: How Dolly Parton left her mark on science Mysteries of the deep and AI friendship: Books in brief The Moderna cancer vaccine offers hope — now we must speed up personalized therapies Heisuke Hironaka obituary: mathematician who smoothed out geometry’s complexities Will Meta’s deal make social media safe for kids? Researchers are dubious What employers are looking for in the age of AI — and four ways to provide it A solution to the mystery of the missing neutrinos Animal-microbe partnerships date back to the dawn of complex life ‘Robot Olympics’ reveal humanoids’ rapid progress — and flaws Glacier collapse caused Nepal’s deadly flash flood — a sign of things to come? Women face bans on research underground — here’s how to modernize the system The Roman telescope is about to take planet-hunting to the next level Why are El Niños getting stronger? 1,000-year-coral record points to climate change Highest-ever ocean temperatures recorded as El Niño intensifies Using nuclear waste to power space missions Automated prototyping of genetic codes Insights into longevity and virus-driven adaptation from Myotis bat genomes Systems vaccinology and the architecture of human immunity Ultrafast and reference-free sequence discovery in single-cell data Cell-type-specific eQTLs underlie the genetic architecture of complex traits Amphibious stem-insect sheds light on colonization of land 3D bulk-resolved g-wave altermagnetic order parameter in CrSb Tidal tomography reveals a thermal anomaly beneath Mars’s crustal dichotomy Synergistic degradation of fucoidans in the ocean A binding-to-release strategy for targeted anticancer drug delivery Critical zone processes limit alkalinity export from natural basaltic systems Aberrant excitatory neuronal ERBB4 promotes Alzheimer’s disease pathology Video reconstruction of variable VLBI observations with neural fields Endocannabinoids facilitate reward engagement through retrograde gain control Primate-specific regulation of the human glycosphingolipid gatekeeper UGCG Granule cells reorient cortical trajectories to separate contexts Long-read sequencing reveals pre-meiotic gene conversion in sperm Infrared absorption spectroscopy of a single polyatomic molecular ion Spontaneously charged water drops induce corrosion Plasma-jet movie is astronomy’s summer blockbuster Can nuclear reactors hit the road? A practical recycling strategy for making thiophosphate molecules with enzymes Smaller reactors bring nuclear power closer to fulfilling its promise Dolly Parton dies aged 80 — researchers celebrate her contributions to science The 46 companies scrambling to commercialize fusion for energy This pulsating muscle graft mimics benefits of exercise Savannah grass growth in dry conditions is boosted by increased CO2 levels Are pro-nuclear politics a threat to public safety? South Africa’s ‘registration law’ for scientists could be a template for the world — if the nation gets it right Vaporization trick enables ‘tandem’ solar cells to be made at lower temperatures The baffling science of SSRIs: how do they really work? A raft of start-up firms is betting on nuclear fusion Like coffee and ice cream: an interview with Sam and Eli Morten The push to clear nuclear power’s waste-disposal hurdle Daily briefing: Celebrating Dolly Parton’s contributions to science Harnessing nuclear power for a clean-energy future Evolutionary mystery revealed by structures of a key enzyme in the synthesis of glycolipids Five highlights from nuclear-power research Does the shingles vaccine cut heart-disease risk? Mounting evidence suggests a link The best-managed industrial waste in history Addendum: Sea level much higher than assumed in most coastal hazard assessments Amend copyright licences to halt AI misuse and reassert human control The future of peer review requires AI support, not AI bans Protecting education in the middle of war zones Ancient surveying instrument found in Egypt Assessing students in the AI era Asthma in some boys stops at puberty: mouse results hint at why How to manage AI risks while reaping the benefits Daily briefing: Billion-dollar machine aims to set a fusion-energy record The brain struggles to make new neurons in people with depression A guide to securing your first research fellowship: what reviewers are looking for How one researcher captured a vanished world of UK government science China is changing the shape of global health. The terms are still up for negotiation How tech-enhanced sleep could improve rest but erode privacy AI-detection tools have made huge leaps forward — how good are they? These rodent OnlyFans stars are helping to fund scientific research More than 18,000 questionable images found in antibody catalogues of 15 companies The exoskeletons are coming (to a store near you) Frontier-technology markets are too narrow — here’s how to widen them Daily briefing: How ‘thunderquakes’ probe underground geologyCNN
Some on-air claims about Dominion Voting Systems were false, Fox News acknowledges in statement after deal is announced Dominion still has pending lawsuits against election deniers such as Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell Here are the 20 specific Fox broadcasts and tweets Dominion says were defamatory Judge in Fox News-Dominion defamation trial: 'The parties have resolved their case' 'Difficult to say with a straight face': Tapper reacts to Fox News' statement on settlement Millions in the US could face massive consequences unless McCarthy can navigate out of a debt trap he set for Biden White homeowner accused of shooting a Black teen who rang his doorbell turns himself in to face criminal charges Newly released video shows scene of Jeremy Renner's snowplow accident Jake Gyllenhaal and Jamie Lee Curtis spent the Covid-19 lockdown together Toddler crawls through White House fence, prompts Secret Service response Jamie Foxx remains hospitalized nearly a week after 'medical complication' A 13-year-old dies after participating in a Benadryl TikTok 'challenge' See pizza delivery guy take out suspect fleeing police Netflix is winding down its DVD business after 25 years FTC chair Lina Khan warns AI could 'turbocharge' fraud and scams Eating too much of these foods is driving the rise in type 2 diabetes, study says ADHD medication abuse in schools is a 'wake-up call' Apple CEO was presented with an original Macintosh. See his reaction Democrats bash Justice Clarence Thomas but their plan to investigate ethics allegations is unclear Russia is 'going backwards' in equipment and deploying post WWII-era tanks, according to Western officials Two Russians claiming to be former Wagner commanders admit killing children and civilians in Ukraine 'My stomach is hurting from laughing': Hear panelist's reaction to DeSantis' threat to Disney GOP prepared to block vote to replace Feinstein on Senate Judiciary Oklahoma governor calls on officials to resign over recording of racist and threatening remarks McCarthy slams Biden in handling of US debt US warns Russia not to touch American nuclear technology at Ukrainian nuclear plant Repeated gunshots fired on live TV as ex-lawmaker shot by assassins FDA clears the way for additional bivalent boosters for certain vulnerable individuals Maine authorities detained a person of interest after 4 people were found dead in a home and 3 others shot while driving Southwest says flights resumed after delays caused by 'tech issues' Damar Hamlin cleared to resume football activities after January cardiac arrest Pilot makes history after landing on top of a 56-story hotel Top US Navy admiral defends non-binary sailor amid some Republican criticism Fulton County DA says fake Trump electors are incriminating one another and wants lawyer disqualified High speed trains are racing across the world. 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Icelanders vote on whether they want to join the EU Milo Yiannopoulos, far-right critic of U.S. immigration, is deported from U.S. Russian strike near Kyiv kills 37, in one of the year's deadliest attacks Photos: See the aftermath of deadly flash floods in Nepal Opinion: Remembering Dolly Parton The bridges of Rwanda open up new worlds Lights out, Instagram off? The changes to Meta for teens could be a big deal The U.S. relied on these science advisers. Then the Trump administration cut them Why is one WNBA team calling in national security experts? How America celebrated and mourned Dolly Parton, in Nashville and beyondThe Atlantic
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I asked 100 companies for my data. Some deleted it instead. Court rules Kalshi sports bets aren't "swaps," just gambling with a different name Cities terminate Flock contracts at record pace in August "RFK Jr. has lied to the Senate": Lawmakers call for criminal probe, ouster Trump blacklisting of "woke" Anthropic deemed illegal by federal judge Here's what we know about the "space academy" Trump just announced Apple One and Apple TV subscription prices increase by up to 20 percent Our 10 favorite scenes from T2: Judgment Day Meta makes AI glasses slightly less creepy with limit on nonconsensual recording Authorities arrest 2 alleged members of prolific hacking group TeamPCP Rocket Report: Europe splashes some cash on launch startups; Pallas-1 nears debut Anthropic's new hardware standard lets AI agents control the physical world Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says GOP heads to Supreme Court after losing case over TV election ad prices Report: Nvidia to acquire AI model repository Hugging Face for $13 billion AI industry says Trump plans to tax chips in the “single dumbest way imaginable” The iconic T-38 jets flown by astronauts just got a spiffy new look RFK Jr. goes full anti-vaccine bananas over two measles deaths—one was a newborn Why did 1,000 world citizens bury their underpants? Panic passes Trump tariff refunds back to the Playdate customers who paid themSlashdot
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Thoughts I had while reading your comment Indirect lessons from human alignment So you want to use plants to reduce indoor CO₂ Does every question mark deserve a Betteridge? Does creatine make you smarter? Pseudpocalypse Life with hazard ratios Blink if you’re human The worthlessness of vitamin D is mildly exaggerated Is “colorectal cancer” rising in “young people”? What’s with all the slide decks? You’re probably taking the wrong painkiller I quit drinking for a year LLMs predict my coffee The modern formatting addiction in writing Maybe there’s a pattern here? Heritability of human life span is about 50% when heritability is redefined to be something different Why read novels? Good if make prior after data instead of before Why the chicken crossed the road, according to various entities Underrated reasons to be thankful V Make product worse, get money Dating: A mysterious constellation of facts Pointing machines, population pyramids, post office scandal, type species, and horse urine Will the explainer post go extinct? Y’all are over-complicating these AI-risk arguments Shoes, Algernon, Pangea, and Sea Peoples Dear PendingKetchup You can try to like stuff I guess I was wrong about AI persuasionMarginal Revolution
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Long-term melatonin use linked to 90% higher heart failure risk Australia’s red soil may be hiding a massive clean energy source Dogs may hold surprising clues to human longevity NASA’s Roman telescope will see 100 times more sky than Hubble Keto diet cut liver fat by 67% in a clinical trial The universe is still speeding up, but nobody knows why Scientists discover why damaged nerves struggle to heal Experimental eye drops help blind mice see again Scientists turn one of the hardest plastics to recycle into high-performance engine lubricant Your sleep may be hiding an early clue to Alzheimer’s Scientists tested 212 plant-based meat alternatives. Every one contained fungal toxins A common vape flavoring may disrupt early embryo development Researchers followed 400,000 kids for 20 years and found a lasting pre-K advantage Scientists tracked 4,500 animals and found a surprising human effect Your dislike of eating bugs may be 9,000 years old “I jumped from my chair” – Astronomers spot Betelgeuse’s hidden companion Vitamin C won’t prevent most colds, but it may do one small thing AI searched 100 million possibilities and found a cheaper way to 3D-print a NASA rocket alloy Why scientists asked 1,000 people to bury their underwear Scientists find a huge hidden ice reservoir beneath Utah’s mountains A mysterious cosmic hum may come from 13-billion-year-old dark stars 324-million-year-old fossil reveals how insects conquered land Smart nanoparticles light up brain cancer and destroy what surgery misses Scientists may have found a shortcut to calorie restriction’s anti-aging benefits Chimpanzees have been hurling rocks at the same trees for more than a decade Manhattan-sized ice island breaks off Greenland’s Petermann Glacier 190-year-old DNA reveals a hidden pangolin species Eating more ultra-processed foods may raise prostate cancer risk by 30% Scientists switch on a strange new form of magnetism in an ultrathin material NASA just used satellites and debris to navigate without GPS NASA’s Roman Space Telescope is ready to hunt thousands of alien worlds Scientists may have finally caught “empty” space changing light Scientists discover a brain “brake” that can shut down chronic pain Common medications may change your gut for years Atomic catalyst unlocks the hidden value of plant waste Three forgotten kings could rewrite the history of ancient Assyria Supercharged “natural killer” cells could be a powerful new cancer weapon Turmeric compound may protect blood vessels from diabetes damage What you eat before age 2 may affect your health 70 years later Bird flu is spreading. Your backyard feeder could make it worse One asteroid strike may explain two mysteries of Mars’ moon Deimos Scientists find hidden “highways” guiding animal evolution A missing color in indoor light may help prevent myopia Too much or too little sleep may make your body age faster Forces deep inside Earth helped Antarctica freeze before the Arctic Screen time at ages 1 and 6 may matter more than parents realize Childhood trauma may leave a lasting “scar” inside brain cells Your brain may not actually “make” decisions A Manhattan-sized ice island just broke free from Greenland NASA finds Earth microbes could survive on the Moon NASA is about to launch a powerful new eye on the universe Trump to award Congressional Space Medal of Honor to Artemis II astronauts Depression may shut down the brain’s ability to make new neurons Newton’s 300-year-old law just passed its biggest test yet Shingles vaccine linked to 24% lower dementia risk Your genes may decide whether a low-carb diet sends cholesterol soaring Scientists discover a real-life “dragon” and name it after Syrax A ghostly ribbon of stars reveals hidden dark matter Experimental compound helps burn fat without muscle loss People who live past 110 have an unusual abundance of killer immune cellsSpaceflight Now
Roman Space Telescope, NASA’s next ‘great observatory,’ poised for Sunday launch SpaceX launches 27 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SpaceX launches Starlink mission on a Falcon booster’s record-breaking 37th flight SpaceX launches 100th orbital mission of 2026 SpaceX launches 29 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral following last-minute scrub LandSpace becomes first commercial Chinese company to land an orbital-class booster Astronauts remove failed antenna; run out of time to install a spare SpaceX exceeds 11,000 satellites in low Earth orbit SpaceX launches record-breaking back-to-back Falcon 9 rockets for Globalstar, U.S. Space Force NASA Administrator ‘extremely confident’ in Artemis 3 mission in 2027Space Daily
The universe’s total mass-energy budget, according to standard cosmology: 4.9% ordinary matter, 26.8% dark matter and 68.3% dark energy — meaning everything made from the atoms on the periodic table accounts for less than one-twentieth of the cosmos. A fifth-grader in Kansas City clicked ball-and-stick atoms together in science class and asked her teacher if she’d made a real molecule — he photographed it, sent it to a chemistry professor, and at ten years old she became co-author of a published paper on a structure nobody had ever described The first man-made object recovered from orbit came down in the Pacific instead of being caught in mid-air, and by the time the capsule reached Honolulu the Navy had painted “Compliments of the US Navy” on the shipping can In 1981 Pablo Escobar flew four hippos into his private zoo north of Medellín; the estate was seized, the hippos were left because nobody knew how to move them, and the last government census put their descendants in the Magdalena basin at around 200 At the Cape Canaveral power plant, a single winter count found 585 manatees packed into its warm-water discharge, because prolonged exposure below 68°F can kill a tropical mammal and a cooling system built to dump waste heat has become the artificial spring it returns to If the Sun vanished right now, Earth would go dark eight minutes later — but if its sound could cross space at the speed it travels through air, the Sun’s final roar would continue reaching us for nearly 14 years, because light travels 874,000 times faster. In 1967, a Cambridge graduate student found a radio signal ticking with such mechanical precision that she and her supervisor briefly nicknamed it ‘LGM-1,’ for little green men, before realizing they had found the first pulsar ever detected — a dead star spinning many times every second Inside droplets of molten platinum, researchers found atoms pinned motionless even at extreme temperatures — and when enough formed a ring, they blocked crystallisation and kept the metal liquid more than 1,000°C below platinum’s normal melting point. Tigst Assefa’s 2:15:50 women-only marathon world record at London in 2025 would have been the men’s world record until August 1958—an extraordinary measure of how far elite women’s distance running has advanced. The last woolly mammoths survived on Wrangel Island until about 4,000 years ago, and a 2024 genetic study found inbreeding had not doomed them to a slow decline — their population appears to have vanished suddenly, for reasons that remain unresolvedSpace News
The electronics ‘under the hood’ of space networking LatConnect 60 and Phi Earth Partner to Connect Space and Soil RTX’s Blue Canyon Technologies introduces new spacecraft mission enabler The threat environment and processing at the edge Propulsion is having a moment Space Angel secures $1.75m WA Government backing to advance Western Australian spaceport plans Tendeg Launches NewTEN Steerable Compact Antenna at SmallSat Robotics and the future of on-orbit labor Spirit Electronics Adds Texas Instruments and Microchip Technology Space Grade Components to Online Store Ahead of SmallSat 2026 The Fuel for the Next Generation of Cislunar Exploration? Technology and Talent. Tory Bruno Named Honorary Chair Of World Space Week 2027 New Novaspace forecast: 6,500+ EO satellites to launch by 2035 Elve qualifies millimeter-wave amplifiers for spaceflight What’s next for ISR in space Moog Highlights Huntsville Expansion and New Hardware-in-the-Loop Lab During Space and Missile Defense Symposium Rock West Composites® Is Premiering Its New STRATOPultrusion™ Product Line at the 2026 Small Satellite Conference LatConnect 60 selects Transcelestial’s Space Optical Network for SWIRSAT imaging constellation Draper Selects Proteus Space for Advanced On-Orbit Mission Moog Inc. Expands METEORITE Satellite Bus Capacity for High-Maneuverability Missions Eoptic, Inc. Selected to Supply DeepScan™ Imaging Payloads Scheduled for Launch in 2027Martin Fowler
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