‘Elections campaigned on who can be more brutal to Palestinians’ — ‘Elections campaigned on who can be more brutal to Palestinians’
When Quiet Undersea Volcanoes Turn Disruptive | Quanta Magazine — Earth’s largest volcanic system, hidden in mountain chains under the sea, has long been assumed to erupt only quietly. The shallow seafloor off Iceland tells another story.
The Pope Speaks Up for Humans, not Humanoids — The forces driving the threat of robot overlords get a morality check.
NASA Awards Contract for Construction Services in California - NASA — NASA has selected multiple small businesses for the Western Regional Multiple Award Construction Contract, which supports a broad range of facility
New Eruption in the Bismarck Sea - NASA Science — Satellite imagery shows a surge of new volcanic activity in the ocean near Papua New Guinea.
New Scientist recommends an excellent look at the future of work — Sarah O'Connor's We Are Not Machines explores how we are contorting ourselves to fit AI into our working lives – and what to do about it, finds Tom Knowles
Earliest use of anaesthetics uncovered in Chinese doctor’s tomb — Residues on medical equipment reveal that physicians in China over 600 years ago used aconitine, a highly toxic plant chemical, to alleviate pain during surgical procedures
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Asteroid to miss Earth by a quarter of the length from us to the moon — Asteroid 2026JH2 will zoom past Earth at a distance of only 90,000 kilometres next week. It has enough mass to wipe out a city, but simulations suggest there is no chance of an impact for at least the next ce
Hubble Spies Faint Irregular Galaxy - NASA — This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image released on May 27, 2026, features the dwarf irregular galaxy ESO 490-017, roughly 12,000 light-years in
Researchers Accidentally Discover That Humans Prefer to Turn Counterclockwise. But They Still Have No Idea Why — The effect transcends factors like culture, gender and handedness, causing the scientists, who were initially studying social distancing behavior, to scratch their hea
Why Kante is still crucial for France - Giroud — France's World Cup winner Olivier Giroud explains why N'Golo Kante is still an important part of Didier Deschamps' squad, eight years after planning to retire from international football.
Zoo celebrates birth of second pair of Sengi pups — It says Nuru and Mela are proving to be "exceptional parents".
The Next Scientific Revolution Requires All of Us | Megan Smith | TEDxBoston — What if America's greatest innovation is still ahead—and it depends on including everyone? Former U.S. Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith explores how government, science, and technology have…
A Vietnam Veteran Collected Fossils for 66 Years. One, Mislabeled 'Baby Lamprey,' Made Paleontologists Reconsider How Vertebrates Moved From Water to Land — The fossil turned out to be a hatchling of a crocodile-like creature, and it suggests, according to a new study, that…
EU gives Paramount's Warner Bros. acquisition the go-ahead — As long as Paramount ends its distribution business with Universal, it can purchase Warner Bros. Discovery in Europe.
Gas from Uranus reveals it has an icy centre — Carbon monoxide in Uranus's deep atmosphere indicates that the planet contains more ice than rock, suggesting it formed more like Neptune than we thought
Do we owe our existence to weird ‘virtual’ particles? — When considering what makes up a human body, a physicist drills down beyond the atomic level. Columnist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein explores the not-exactly-real particles that allow the stuff we’re made of to hang together
First test of CO2 removal with green sand finds no harm to marine life — Adding olivine to the ocean could remove CO2 from the atmosphere, and a pilot project in New York state found no signs of adverse effects on seafloor organisms