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Trump Says It's 'Strange' To Want Accountability For Iran School Bombing

Huffington Post - 24 minutes ago

May Anime Forever Drift Through the Eternal Shadow of 'Vampire Hunter D'

Gizmodo - 31 minutes ago

Israeli Health Authorities Close Two Stores After Sedatives Found in Baby Food

Haaretz - 1 hour ago

8 Jun 2026 -- Rare footage captured of Great White shark in Mediterranean Sea -- A volunteer diver has described shaking as he filmed his encounter with an endangered Great White shark between Tunisia and Sicily. -- 8 Jun 2026

BBC News - 1 hour ago

Stonehenge discovery rewrites history of prehistoric religion

Independent UK - 2 hours ago

'It's a huge deal': Archaeologists discover second cannonball from the Battle of the Alamo, and it was likely fired by Texans -- Archaeologists have discovered a second cannonball from the 1836 Battle of the Alamo, and now they have one from each side. -- Kristina Killgrove -- Published

Live Science - 2 hours ago

The Ending of 'Scary Movie' Changed So Much It's Scary

Gizmodo - 2 hours ago

'A mixture from zero to infinity': Physicists tried splitting a photon - and unleashed an improbable swarm of particles -- Physicists have found that splitting a photon would lead to a complex state that may change the way we think of particles. -- Rory Harris -- Published

Live Science - 3 hours ago

Türkiye's Gulf of Saros emerges as top summer destination

Daily Sabah - 3 hours ago

Sooner than expected? Useful quantum error correction promised for 2028.

Ars Technica - 4 hours ago

Ancient Teeth From Siberia Show Plague Appeared Earlier Than Expected

Huffington Post - 4 hours ago

20 things you may be recycling by mistake, and why you shouldn't be

Business Insider - 4 hours ago

Oldest-known plague outbreak came 5,500 years ago in Siberia

CTV News - 5 hours ago

JD Vance Just Auditioned For Fox News — And Critics Say It's For This Reason

Huffington Post - 5 hours ago

Legal Experts Spot 'Incredibly Harmful' Phrase From Trump Admin — And Warn It Will 'Fuel' A Fire

Huffington Post - 5 hours ago

Earth-based telescope shares image of Artemis II capsule near the moon - one of the farthest photos of humans ever taken -- A blurry photo captured by the National Science Foundation's Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia shows Artemis II's Orion capsule circling the moon more than 200,000 miles away, making it a candidate for the longest-distance image of humans ever taken from Earth. -- Harry Baker -- Published

Live Science - 7 hours ago

Massive leak exposes 56 million email accounts and 124 million passwords... check if yours is compromised

Daily Mail - 7 hours ago

Ancient teeth from Siberia rewrite the plague's timeline, dating back to over 5,500 years ago

The San Diego Union-Tribune - 7 hours ago

Weather -- The first Atlantic tropical storm of 2026 is here-and it used to be a Pacific cyclone

Scientific American - 8 hours ago

Atlantic 'cold blob' is responsible for shifts in the Indian summer monsoon that threaten over 1 billion people -- An abnormally cold patch of water in the North Atlantic Ocean has triggered changes in the Indian summer monsoon via the jet stream winds, new research suggests. -- Sascha Pare -- Published

Live Science - 8 hours ago

Why are experts warning latest Ebola outbreak could be 'worst ever'?

Aljazeera - 8 hours ago

Deadly parasite causing cancer-like tumors in humans and pets spreading across US

Daily Mail - 8 hours ago

A primer on uranium enrichment as Iran's nuclear program faces scrutiny

The San Diego Union-Tribune - 8 hours ago

Mathematics -- Our brains underestimate Elon Musk's wealth

Scientific American - 8 hours ago

EU, G7 pledge support amid DRC Ebola outbreak

Deutsche Welle - 9 hours ago

How to watch Venus vanish behind the moon in broad daylight today -- Today (June 17), the moon will pass between Earth and Venus, causing the hellish planet to temporarily disappear from the daytime sky. Here's what it will look like, exactly when it is happening and how you can safely view this skywatching spectacle. -- Harry Baker -- Last updated

Live Science - 9 hours ago

Scientists renew the search for measles drugs amid low vaccination rates -- The Explainer -- There is currently no FDA-approved measles drug. But researchers are optimistic. -- Justin Klawans, The Week US

The Week - 9 hours ago

Noah's Ark could finally be found after historic deal promises 'irrefutable proof'

Daily Mail - 9 hours ago

Ancient teeth rewrite what we know about plague's timeline

Independent UK - 9 hours ago

Climate change is making once-rare coastal floods more likely, study says

Los Angeles Times - 9 hours ago

DNA -- Could this ancient burial site be the oldest lethal plague outbreak?

Scientific American - 9 hours ago

Life-threatening tropical storm Arthur forms off US coast with multiple states at high risk of danger

Daily Mail - 10 hours ago

AI showdown at G7: Can Europe break free from US tech?

Deutsche Welle - 10 hours ago

5,000-year-old burial of man with battered skull found in kiln in Germany - and he may have been a human sacrifice -- An injured man from the Corded Ware culture was buried in a pit previously used as a kiln, and he may have been sacrificed. -- Kristina Killgrove -- Published

Live Science - 10 hours ago

Astrophysics -- Astronomers discover another galaxy seemingly devoid of dark matter

Scientific American - 12 hours ago

Universe still expanding at accelerating rate: Study

Daily Sabah - 12 hours ago

A geneticist attempting to find alien-human hybrids on Earth says he knows what the CIA is allegedly looking for in public DNA databases like 23andMe.

Daily Mail - 13 hours ago

AI will lead to labour shortages, Bezos says in optimistic talk

CTV News - 13 hours ago

Goats are as good as dogs at following human voices to find food

Independent UK - 14 hours ago

Oceans -- Watch sharks use manta rays to scratch unreachable itches

Scientific American - 14 hours ago

West Antarctica Is Missing Way Too Much Ice

Wired News - 14 hours ago

Ebola and the US patient spotlight global health 'injustice'

Deutsche Welle - 14 hours ago

Solar surpasses coal in historic shift for U.S. electricity mix

Los Angeles Times - 15 hours ago

Steven Spielberg has ignited a fierce online debate after suggesting his new Disclosure Day film could prompt Christians to reexamine some of their core beliefs.

Daily Mail - 15 hours ago

Why the Williams sisters and other stars are playing longer

Deutsche Welle - 15 hours ago

The FBI has issued a Public Service Announcement about a new scam stealing Outlook and Microsoft Teams accounts used by millions of Americans.

Daily Mail - 16 hours ago

Scientists make new discovery about the history of the Giant's Causeway

Independent UK - 16 hours ago

Is sewage the future of green aviation?

NPR - 18 hours ago

New study challenges view that pets help us deal with stress

Independent UK - 18 hours ago

FC 26 'World Cup' update by EA Sports is live - everything you need to know

Independent UK - 20 hours ago

Medicine -- Proposed White House regulations could kill 5,000 clinical trials, analysis finds

Scientific American - 1 day ago

The Milky Way's black hole is eerily quiet. Scientists have now found evidence of its missing wind

CTV News - 1 day ago

Tropical Storm Watch issued for millions as life-threatening weather system builds off US coast

Daily Mail - 1 day ago

Cockroaches scurry around with thousands of pieces of bacterial genomes

Ars Technica - 1 day ago

Scientists have released a first-contact blueprint as they brace for humanity to receive a message from intelligent life beyond Earth.

Daily Mail - 1 day ago

Sacred area unearthed inside 1,900-year-old temple in Türkiye

Daily Sabah - 1 day ago

Nvidia's Jensen Huang says society needs 'new social norms' in the age of AI: AP Exclusive

CTV News - 1 day ago

A Texas-size chunk of winter sea ice is missing from Antarctica - and it's probably not coming back -- An area of ice nearly the size of Texas has failed to form over the Bellingshausen Sea, off western Antarctica, as researchers investigate the links between sea ice loss and global warming. -- Patrick Pester -- Published

Live Science - 1 day ago

SpaceX locks in US$60 billion Cursor deal to close gap with rivals in AI coding race

CTV News - 1 day ago

AI and brain-computer interface allow speechless ALS patient to work a full-time job -- The hardware isn't new, but a UC Davis research team's machine learning-powered method of translating brain activity in an ALS patient into sentences with 92% accuracy is

Register UK - 1 day ago

Scientists spot powerful UFOs blasting out of a monster black hole

Daily Mail - 1 day ago

Health -- Ozempic maker Novo Nordisk breach exposed patients' clinical trial data

Scientific American - 1 day ago

Why the Reflecting Pool Is Full of Algae After Trump's Renovation

Wired News - 1 day ago

Sea squirts may offer insights into human aging and exercise, Stanford, UCSD researchers say

The Mercury News - 1 day ago

Mathematics -- Math predicts humans could go extinct in about 17,000 years

Scientific American - 1 day ago

People 'Don't Want To Drink Abortions': Republican AGs Make Bizarre EPA Request

Huffington Post - 1 day ago

CRISPR gene-editing for crops: Precision tool or new risk?

Deutsche Welle - 1 day ago

Yes, the universe's expansion is still accelerating, researchers say

CTV News - 1 day ago

In Albania, anger grows against the government for supporting a Kushner-linked luxury resort

NPR - 1 day ago

Self-proclaimed psychic issues chilling warning after visions of World Cup catastrophe: 'I saw thousands taken'

Daily Mail - 1 day ago

Wreck of World War II Japanese 'hellship' that sank with more than 1,000 Allied POWs on board discovered off the Philippines -- The remains of a Japanese "hellship" that was torpedoed in 1944 and sank with more than 1,000 POWs on board has been found off the coast of the Philippines island of Luzon. -- Tom Metcalfe -- Published

Live Science - 1 day ago

India temporarily blocks Telegram app over medical exam fraud

CTV News - 1 day ago

Astrophysics -- NASA data reveals weird x-ray changes in the exploded ruins of dead stars

Scientific American - 1 day ago

Trump admin abandons fight against wind energy as clean energy output surges

Ars Technica - 1 day ago

The world's first nuclear clock just ticked on - and it could help detect a fifth fundamental force of physics -- By using a rare thorium nucleus as a timekeeper, physicists have demonstrated the first working nuclear clock, a device that could lead to even more precise clocks and new ways to search for dark matter. -- Kenna Hughes-Castleberry -- Published

Live Science - 1 day ago

What Do Americans Spend on Housing?

Wired News - 1 day ago

The Butterfly Longevity Diet

The Atlantic - 1 day ago

Around the World, These Building Solutions Keep Things Local

Wired News - 1 day ago

'The system is critically stressed': San Andreas and San Jacinto faults scarily close to major earthquake, study finds -- The San Andreas fault and a neighboring fault in Southern California have reached their highest levels of tectonic stress in 1,000 years, and a rupture at one fault could propagate to the other, researchers found. -- Sascha Pare -- Published

Live Science - 1 day ago

Elusive dwarf fox, feared extinct, photographed for the first time on island off Yucatan -- The first-ever photos of a Cozumel fox prove that the mysterious island predator is still alive in Mexico but in dire need of conservation, according to researchers. -- Patrick Pester -- Published

Live Science - 1 day ago

Global fossil fuel use must HALVE by 2035 to avoid catastrophic climate damage, scientists claim

Daily Mail - 1 day ago

Mental Health -- Could the keto diet help treat anorexia, schizophrenia and depression?

Scientific American - 1 day ago

Artificial Intelligence -- The U.S. restricted Anthropic's powerful Fable model. Cybersecurity experts say that could backfire

Scientific American - 1 day ago

Dangerously hot and humid: Rising temperatures in the US make outdoor exercise hazardous -- Analysis -- In a warming world, outdoor exercise may be hindered by performance-impairing heat more often than it was in the past. -- Naomi Mihara

Live Science - 1 day ago

This jacket can produce nearly 900 ml of water per day

CTV News - 1 day ago

India's First Space-Sector Digital Capability Repository Launched at...

Deccan Chronicle - 1 day ago

A former Kansas mayor wasn't a US citizen, but voted. His supporters say it's not that simple. -- Joe Ceballos, who twice led the tiny Kansas town of Coldwater, and voted in elections despite not being a U.S. citizen, is facing deportation. -- Sarah Matusek

Christian Science Monitor - 1 day ago

What Do We Need From Our Homes Right Now?

Wired News - 1 day ago

Can AI help us age better? Bay Area scientists are trying to find out

The Mercury News - 1 day ago

Epidemiology -- Just how big is the new Ebola outbreak?

Scientific American - 1 day ago

How far can England go at the World Cup? Supercomputer predicts the Three Lions' journey through the competition - and their odds of taking home the trophy

Daily Mail - 1 day ago

NASA said nyet to Roscosmos plan to cut into leaky ISS segment -- Crew sheltered in SpaceX Dragon as aging Zvezda segment's cracks continue to test orbital nerve

Register UK - 1 day ago

Lost ancient villa visited by three emperors unearthed outside Rome

Independent UK - 1 day ago

A land-walking fish that can breathe air for several days is invading parts of the US, prompting wildlife officials to ask Americans to take matters into their own hands.

Daily Mail - 1 day ago

The countries where Gen Z are the most miserable, revealed - with the UK ninth on the list

Daily Mail - 1 day ago

Lavish Roman villa discovered outside Rome's walls may have been frequented by Hadrian and Marcus Aurelius -- The villa, which came to light because it was illegally excavated, was found in an area frequented two millennia ago by the emperors Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius. -- Kristina Killgrove -- Published

Live Science - 1 day ago

El Niño turns crumbling California pier into climate battleground over what to save — and who pays

Los Angeles Times - 1 day ago

As heat waves grow more frequent and fierce, cities worldwide are racing to cool streets and reshape urban life.

Deutsche Welle - 1 day ago

Is a transparent fish the future of brain science? This center is betting on it

NPR - 1 day ago

Sonic Booms From Meteors Can Release Energy Of Hundreds of Tons Of TNT

Deccan Chronicle - 1 day ago