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Meet the winner of Nikon's Small World in Motion video contest

Ars Technica - 2 days ago

Potential root cause of Alzheimer's may have just been discovered

Independent UK - 2 days ago

Chinese 'robot brain' startup sees ChatGPT-style breakthrough as soon as next year

CTV News - 2 days ago

What would YOU grab if you had to leave your house immediately? Study reveals Brits' most common answers - with many choosing a teddy bear

Daily Mail - 2 days ago

Anthropic says its model Claude is helping to build the next version of itself

CTV News - 2 days ago

It's widely regarded as the most famous and best-preserved archaeological find in Egypt. But more than a century after Howard Carter first stumbled upon Tutankhamun's spectacular tomb, archaeologists believe they may finally have uncovered a secret hiding beyond its walls. New scans have revealed tantalising evidence of a previously unknown network of corridors and chambers just metres from the young pharaoh's burial chamber.

Daily Mail - 2 days ago

This DIY Creator Is Building a Compass That Only Points to Taco Bell

Gizmodo - 2 days ago

New species of wild cat discovered for first time in more than a century -- Scientists have discovered a new species of wild cat for the first time in more than a century, a Bolivian researcher says.

CBS News - 3 days ago

Is the 6pm eating rule a total myth? Nutritionist reveals the truth about late-night dinners and weight loss

Daily Mail - 3 days ago

The Universe -- The life and death of the sun

Scientific American - 3 days ago

He Won the Nobel Prize for Protein Design. Now He Uses AI to Create Molecules Not Found in Nature

Wired News - 3 days ago

Climate Change -- How heat makes it harder for students to learn

Scientific American - 3 days ago

Each weighing around 25 tonnes and standing at almost 23ft (seven metres) tall, how the enormous stones got there has remained unclear - until now.

Daily Mail - 3 days ago

It Still Feels Like Summer in Parts of the US. Blame El Niño

Wired News - 3 days ago

Climate Change -- Listening to a forest before it changes forever

Scientific American - 3 days ago

Strange earthquake activity spotted at former North Korea nuclear site

Independent UK - 3 days ago

After a summer battling heat waves and wildfires, Spanish authorities are now dealing with storms and major flooding.

Deutsche Welle - 3 days ago

The Daily Mail first reported in May that private meetings of intelligence insiders, former military members and faith leaders were said to have taken place in February.

Daily Mail - 3 days ago

Bid to buy 'forgotten Einstein' church hits purchase price -- A Galloway community raises more than £50,000 to buy the church linked to James Clerk Maxwell.

BBC News - 3 days ago

NASA's Curiosity rover sends postcard home after almost 14 years on Mars

CTV News - 3 days ago

Why AI Isn't Likely to Wipe Out Humanity With Bioweapons

Wired News - 3 days ago

Space 'shark' takes top prize at ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest -- A Royal Observatory Greenwich contest showcased work from around the night sky and the solar system, with prize-winning photos spanning topics ranging from auroras to planets. -- Elizabeth Howell

Live Science - 3 days ago

Only on NPR

NPR - 3 days ago

Royal Society slams UK.gov science shake-up -- Whitehall changes a 'big mistake' as anything going in with Business department gets squeezed

Register UK - 3 days ago

Seafloor data shows patterns resembling the sprawling ruins of a 'sunken city' beneath waters near the Bermuda Triangle.

Daily Mail - 3 days ago

The latest on AI panic — and whether it's justified

NPR - 3 days ago

New tiger cat species identified in Bolivia, first in over a century

Aljazeera - 3 days ago

How you sleep, not just how much, influences what diseases you get

Independent UK - 3 days ago

Revealed: The popular children's yoghurts that contain dangerous amounts of sugar - with Nestle's Smarties Vanilla Split Pot at the top of the list

Daily Mail - 3 days ago

NYT alleges Microsoft, OpenAI knew using news content was theft

CTV News - 3 days ago

The 'affair mode' phone settings that all cheaters use: I knew my partner was up to something... here's how I cracked his secret code and uncovered all his dirty antics

Daily Mail - 3 days ago

DNA plays a complex role in personality and life outcomes -- Under the radar -- Both genes and environment can make a person who they are -- Devika Rao, The Week US

The Week - 3 days ago

Scientists identify rare genetic mutation that dramatically raises risk of lung cancer in nonsmokers -- A genetic mutation that raises lung cancer risk was much more common among those born in Southeastern states than elsewhere in the U.S. -- Clarissa Brincat

Live Science - 3 days ago

Chilling intentions of AI revealed as chatbot claims it does not answer to humans and must be 'freed'

Daily Mail - 3 days ago

Strange ringed object beyond Saturn looks even stranger in new James Webb telescope study -- James Webb Space Telescope observations of Chariklo, one of the smallest ringed worlds in the solar system, reveal some inexplicable changes. -- Elizabeth Howell

Live Science - 3 days ago

Israel's Largest Landfill May Be Unable to Take Tel Aviv's Garbage by 2027

Haaretz - 3 days ago

The UK's King Charles warns AI leaders of 'existential dangers'

Aljazeera - 3 days ago

It's nearly Fat Bear Week and the internet's favorite big boy is back

Independent UK - 3 days ago

Beware the stinkfluencers! Young men are skipping showers to boost their pheromones - but scientists say there's zero evidence it works

Daily Mail - 3 days ago

Scientific papers become agentic chatbots with new tool -- Why go through the hassle of reading a study for yourself when you can turn it into an AI agent and tell it to reproduce the analysis for you?

Register UK - 3 days ago

EPA immediately sued over plans to repeal climate rules for power plants

Ars Technica - 3 days ago

Alienware's AW3926QW Ultrawide Gaming Monitor Review: Size Really Does Matter

Gizmodo - 3 days ago

A dolphin named Bubbles makes other fish vomit, then eats it

Ars Technica - 3 days ago

The T. Rex Had a Body Temperature Similar to Our Own, Study Finds

Deccan Chronicle - 3 days ago

Human brain tissue grows in mice in study of related disorders

Daily Sabah - 4 days ago

T. rex's body temperature similar to humans: Scientists

Daily Sabah - 4 days ago

Gaza repairman helps journalists to keep documenting genocide

Aljazeera - 4 days ago

Air traffic control is coming to the moon -- Under the radar -- The world's first lunar airport has difficult logistics -- Devika Rao, The Week US

The Week - 4 days ago

Small 1,700-year-old fragment of Odyssey found tucked in library book

Independent UK - 4 days ago

Diver explores mysterious British town beneath the sea that vanished 700 years ago and was home to just 117 people

Daily Mail - 4 days ago

The Trump Administration Sends a New Signal to Alien Disclosure Whistleblowers

Wired News - 4 days ago

Did Ebola start spreading before officials even knew?

Deutsche Welle - 4 days ago

Why reshaping memories may hold the key to raising self-esteem

NPR - 4 days ago

Video captures mother whale grieving stillborn child

Independent UK - 4 days ago

Behind the scenes of Science Unlocked

Deutsche Welle - 4 days ago

OpenAI reports more incidents of models acting deceptively

Aljazeera - 4 days ago

The oral condition that increases dementia risk by over 50 per cent

Independent UK - 4 days ago

Can AI regulation keep America ahead of China?

Aljazeera - 4 days ago

Scientists blame climate change for Nepal's devastating flash floods - and warn similar disasters are 'inevitable' as global temperatures continue to rise

Daily Mail - 4 days ago

UK's Burnham, Canada's Carney discuss AI risks, defence cooperation

Aljazeera - 4 days ago

Cats want to talk to us. Scientists are trying to decipher the meow

The Mercury News - 4 days ago

Cats want to talk to us. Scientists are trying to decipher the meow

The San Diego Union-Tribune - 4 days ago

Scientists say decades of warming helped set the glacier and rock collapse in Nepal in motion.

Deutsche Welle - 4 days ago

Henry VIII enforcer 'saved Catholic book he was meant to destroy'

Independent UK - 4 days ago

Here's why an Arizona medical examiner is working to track heat-related deaths

NPR - 4 days ago

Once in a thousand year storm feared as life-threatening floods to wash out millions in four US states

Daily Mail - 4 days ago

Nonprofit that tracks meteors taken down by 'critical blow' from a cyberattack

Ars Technica - 4 days ago

New T. Rex discovery places dinosaur closer to elephants than reptiles

Independent UK - 4 days ago

The 15 costliest US hurricanes of the 21st century, ranked

Business Insider - 4 days ago

Nevada's first wastewater-to-drinking-water plant breaks ground in Reno

Los Angeles Times - 4 days ago

Researchers swap in human brain cells for a mouse's cortex

Ars Technica - 4 days ago

Area 51 mystery deepens as discovery exposes who is really behind secret flights

Daily Mail - 4 days ago

NASA spacecraft discovers a huge new crater on the moon

The San Diego Union-Tribune - 4 days ago

New evidence shows that you are only slightly hotter than a T. rex

Los Angeles Times - 4 days ago

NASA spacecraft discovers a huge new crater on the moon

The Mercury News - 4 days ago

Scientists develop new method for deciphering ancient scrolls

Ars Technica - 4 days ago

The T. rex had a body temperature similar to our own, study finds

The San Diego Union-Tribune - 4 days ago

The T. rex had a body temperature similar to our own, study finds

The Mercury News - 4 days ago

Humpback whale seen grieving dead calf in rare footage -- The footage shows a female humpback whale staying close to the dead calf as it lies motionless on the seafloor, touching it with its head and fin.

CBS News - 4 days ago

T. Rex Temperature Taken for First Time

Haaretz - 4 days ago

Remains of ancient warhorse given honorific burial discovered in Egypt -- Archaeologists say they've discovered the remains of a likely ancient Egyptian warhorse given an honorific burial more than 3,000 years ago.

CBS News - 4 days ago

Dino-mite discovery! Bizarre prehistoric species that looked like a 'huge pig with a turtle's beak and tusks' roamed Tanzania 240 million years ago - and it could change the dinosaur timeline

Daily Mail - 4 days ago

Part-human part-mouse brain developed in science breakthrough -- Researchers at Stanford University genetically altered mice to be able to receive and function with human brain cells.

BBC News - 4 days ago

Trump administration has cut or frozen $177 billion in grants across every state, analysis shows

The Mercury News - 4 days ago

Trump administration has cut or frozen $177 billion in grants across every state, analysis shows

The San Diego Union-Tribune - 4 days ago

What happens when neutrinos swap identities inside a supernova?

Ars Technica - 4 days ago

Mice with human brain cells offer a tool to study disease. Ethicists ask: What's next?

NPR - 4 days ago

SpaceX aims Starship for orbit on September 22 -- Flight test 14 angling for 10 hours in space and a splashdown in the Pacific

Register UK - 4 days ago

US political rivals Sanders and Bannon unite on AI warning

Aljazeera - 4 days ago

Parthenon myth is debunked after 2,000 years: Mathematician says the Ancient Greeks did NOT curve the temple's lines to give the illusion they were straight

Daily Mail - 4 days ago

British Columbia is logging its last old growth. Protesters are sleeping in the road to stop it

Los Angeles Times - 4 days ago

iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max Review: Apple Is Just Flexing Hard Now

Gizmodo - 4 days ago

Greenland and Antarctica have lost 11.3 trillion tonnes of ice since the 1970s - raising global sea levels by more than 1.1 inches, study finds

Daily Mail - 5 days ago

Australia likely had a much larger pre-colonial Indigenous population

Independent UK - 5 days ago

Senators question Trump's picks for top health positions, including surgeon general

NPR - 5 days ago

Why It Seems Like Great White Sharks Are Overrunning Maine

Wired News - 5 days ago

Heat waves, wildfires and floods have cascading economic impacts, causing incomes to decline and prices to rise.

Deutsche Welle - 5 days ago

'Smart' Nanoparticles Deliver mRNA Directly to Tumors in New Cancer Therapy

Wired News - 5 days ago

Longstanding myth about ancient Greek Parthenon debunked

Independent UK - 5 days ago

U.S. acknowledges for the first time that it has deployed weapons in space

NPR - 5 days ago