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Nanoplastics that can enter human blood stream now found as far away as Antarctica -- Nanoplastics small enough to slip into your bloodstream have turned up in Antarctica's most...

Daily Express - 3 minutes ago

A New Device Eases One of the Most Annoying Parts of Routine Physicals

Wired News - 14 minutes ago

Science - Bezos, DiCaprio set up massive wildlife fund - Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos have announced a $200 million fund set to protect species on the brink of extinction. Carter Evans has the story. 10H ago - 1:56

CBS News - 14 minutes ago

Nicotine pouches can be marketed as 'lower risk' than cigarettes. Is that dangerous?

NPR - 28 minutes ago

Tiny implant rides arteries to deliver drugs on target

Deutsche Welle - 1 hour ago

Physicists find a way to control heat in a way once thought impossible -- Researchers designed a material that can independently control how it absorbs and emits heat, and it even retains those settings once the power is turned off. -- Olivia Maule -- Published

Live Science - 1 hour ago

Warning over popular erectile dysfunction pill - scientists find it could BLIND you

Daily Mail - 2 hours ago

Paleontology -- Behold the newfound ice age toad

Scientific American - 2 hours ago

Shooting stars are just pea-sized rocks... and other space wonders

NPR - 2 hours ago

Learning to swim at 60: Facing a lifelong fear of water

Deutsche Welle - 2 hours ago

In China, motherhood begins with 'sitting the month.' The tradition is spreading. -- China's ancient tradition requiring a month of special postpartum care is evolving into an upscale, spalike experience – and slowly migrating to the West. -- Ann Scott Tyson

Christian Science Monitor - 3 hours ago

Are you a Flat Earther? You've probably had a tough life! People who have experienced hardship are more likely to believe conspiracy theories, study finds

Daily Mail - 3 hours ago

The main reason you are a mosquito magnet but your friend isn't

Independent UK - 3 hours ago

Tiny drones can shoot down mosquitoes in mid-air in startling breakthrough -- In tests, the diminutive unit autonomously tracked, closed in on, and neutralised a moth...

Daily Express - 5 hours ago

I Usually Laugh Off These AI Hacking Reports, but This One Sounds Serious and Scary

Gizmodo - 5 hours ago

Can YOU spot the fake? Take the test to see if you can distinguish between real and AI-generated stories - as research reveals people prefer those written by robots

Daily Mail - 6 hours ago

SpaceX Stock Drops After First Earnings Call as Musk Fails to Woo Investors With AI Goals

Gizmodo - 8 hours ago

PC Prices Are So Bad Now, Companies Are Selling You Old Components Like New

Gizmodo - 10 hours ago

Five Amazon countries arrest hundreds in major crackdown on environmental crime

Los Angeles Times - 10 hours ago

Controversial battery storage project in San Jose's Coyote Valley is withdrawn

The Mercury News - 11 hours ago

Space station astronaut recounts moment crew put on evacuation alert

Independent UK - 11 hours ago

World's top 15 most beautiful words include Turkish 'yakamoz'

Daily Sabah - 11 hours ago

Texas Pauses New Data Center Projects Looking to Connect to the State's Grid

Gizmodo - 11 hours ago

Brains don't always rot: Scientists may finally know how human brains have evaded decay for thousands of years -- Thousands of skeletal human remains have been discovered with their brain tissue unexpectedly intact. Now, a team of scientists may have finally figured out why. -- Victoria Atkinson -- Published

Live Science - 12 hours ago

Türkiye or China? Rize weighs in on tea's true home

Daily Sabah - 12 hours ago

Good news if laundry is your most hated chore! Scientists develop a T-shirt that stays fresh for 30 DAYS without washing

Daily Mail - 12 hours ago

Scientists puzzled by ancient beast slice in stomach of 14,000-year-old frozen puppy -- A 14,000-year-old frozen puppy was discovered in Siberia with a chunk of an extinct animal in...

Daily Express - 12 hours ago

A SpaceX rocket will crash into the moon overnight. York U astronomers will be watching

CTV News - 12 hours ago

Deadly volcano that killed 30,000 in minutes reawakens after decades of silence

Daily Mail - 13 hours ago

OpenAI pays US$3.2 million in probe over hiring foreign workers

CTV News - 13 hours ago

White House to meet AI firms on advanced model safety

Aljazeera - 14 hours ago

Scientists issue warning after spotting more than 20 giant UFOs racing across the moon

Daily Mail - 15 hours ago

Math -- Wormholes could be the key to time travel

Scientific American - 15 hours ago

This summer isn't breaking heat records — yet. Wait until El Nino kicks in, scientists say

The San Diego Union-Tribune - 15 hours ago

SpaceX investors are requesting that Elon Musk paint Starship pink - what you need to know

Independent UK - 15 hours ago

A SpaceX rocket is about to crash into the moon

CTV News - 15 hours ago

Scientists identify an insect-eating plant, proving Charles Darwin right after 150 years

CTV News - 16 hours ago

'Darwin's hypothesis provided an important inspiration': Scientists bolster 150-year-old Darwinian theory with a carnivorous plant in China -- Researchers have confirmed that a plant native to alpine regions in southwest China is carnivorous, supporting a Darwinian theory from 1875. -- Sascha Pare -- Published

Live Science - 16 hours ago

2 people die of Cyclospora infection in Michigan -- Two people in Michigan have died due to Cyclospora infections, the state health department reported. -- Nicoletta Lanese -- Published

Live Science - 16 hours ago

Plants -- Newly discovered carnivorous plant is as deceptive as it is deadly

Scientific American - 17 hours ago

Rare footage of humpback whale birth captured on drone video -- The footage is believed to be only the fourth complete humpback whale birth ever recorded on film anywhere in the world and the first-ever captured by drone. -- Jul 31

CBS News - 17 hours ago

Extinction -- Project backed by Leonardo DiCaprio and Jeff Bezos aims to save 100 critically endangered species

Scientific American - 17 hours ago

'Fungal storm' threatens Arizona TODAY as fierce winds whip up disease-carrying dust

Daily Mail - 18 hours ago

Fire rainbow lights up the sky over West Virginia

Independent UK - 18 hours ago

Vindicated! A Plant That Darwin Thought Was Carnivorous Really Is

Haaretz - 18 hours ago

Spacecraft -- A SpaceX rocket is about to hit the moon-these videos show what could happen

Scientific American - 19 hours ago

Back to School: The 8 Best Smart Home Devices for Your Dorm Room

Gizmodo - 19 hours ago

Spokane wildfires are a warning -- Troy Farah

Salon - 20 hours ago

Satellite imagery captures race to recover 52-metre SpaceX Starship in the Indian Ocean

CTV News - 20 hours ago

What lies beneath: Earth's inner core could be full of 'extreme hydrogen' unlike ANYTHING seen on the surface, study claims

Daily Mail - 20 hours ago

Webb telescope finds clues to violent past of Neptune's moons

Daily Sabah - 21 hours ago

27 Jul 2026 -- UK's iconic Jodrell Bank telescope faces axe in science cuts -- Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained. -- 27 Jul 2026

BBC News - 21 hours ago

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The Atlantic - 22 hours ago

Low water levels in the Danube River have caused Hungary to consider shutting its only nuclear power plant.

Deutsche Welle - 22 hours ago

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NBC News - 22 hours ago

Paleontology -- An Ichthyosaur's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day 160 million years ago

Scientific American - 22 hours ago

Tanning is getting hot again. Here's what it really does to your skin

Los Angeles Times - 23 hours ago

How Data Centers Broke American Politics

Wired News - 23 hours ago

The 'holiday sleep hangover' hitting Brits: How travel tiredness costs you the first two days of your break

Daily Mail - 23 hours ago

Medicaid work rule leaves homeless people in the cold

NPR - 1 day ago

Millions of workers lack paid leave or protections, forcing them to work under increasingly dangerous conditions.

Deutsche Welle - 1 day ago

Shark sighting closes Jersey beach for the first time in HISTORY: Lifeguards clear the water after a 12ft creature is spotted

Daily Mail - 1 day ago

The zoo said that 10 of its 16 lions have been ill. Japan has been experiencing an extreme heat wave since late July.

Deutsche Welle - 1 day ago

DR Congo launches Ebola trial for high-risk contacts

Deutsche Welle - 1 day ago

Clearing cholesterol from blood also removes forever chemicals

Independent UK - 1 day ago

More food and money, less disease: Senegal's surprising eco-experiment

NPR - 1 day ago

NASA puts astronauts' lives in the hands of Tesla's flaky Cybertruck -- Muskmobiles subject to 11 recalls get the launchpad rescue mission currently handled by vehicles that can survive land mine blasts

Register UK - 1 day ago

Discarded SpaceX Rocket on High-Speed Collision Course With The Moon

Deccan Chronicle - 1 day ago

Cycle-syncing: How menstruation changes athletes' training

Deutsche Welle - 1 day ago

Cats are killing far more Australian wildlife than previously thought

Independent UK - 1 day ago

Elon Musk's chilling admission as AI goes rogue with 'unprecedented' cyber attack -- OpenAI revealed this week that some of its most advanced models hacked a start-up.

Daily Express - 1 day ago

Fears grow over toxic ROCKET FUEL chemical lurking in America's drinking water: Expert sounds alarm over exactly who is at risk... and terrifying potential side effects

Daily Mail - 1 day ago

Sharks can hear you swimming from 100 feet away. That's not necessarily a bad thing

The San Diego Union-Tribune - 1 day ago

The second of two red panda cubs born at a California zoo dies

NBC News - 1 day ago

A racy gay short story shows that the brilliant scientist who helped crack the Nazi's Enigma Code was anything but dull.

Daily Mail - 1 day ago

Defense -- The U.S. military needs tungsten, but pristine NASA site may stand in the way

Scientific American - 1 day ago

Canadian astronaut prepares for NASA mission to International Space Station

CTV News - 1 day ago

Research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed

Ars Technica - 1 day ago

Trump criticised for taking day off to play golf tournament – then bragging about his 'talent'

Independent UK - 1 day ago

NASA Mars photo captures mysterious 'walking man' on the Red Planet

Daily Mail - 1 day ago

The SpaceX Falcon Lunar Crash Is a Warning for Moon Bases

Wired News - 1 day ago

Scientists uncover big clue as to how Antarctica's mysterious Blood Falls came to be -- Brine that feeds the gruesome-looking Blood Falls in East Antarctica may have been emplaced when sea levels were higher than they are now, a new study says. -- Sascha Pare -- Published

Live Science - 1 day ago

Robot looks for great white sharks near California beaches

The Mercury News - 1 day ago

August's total solar eclipse will sweep over Spain, Iceland and Greenland

The Mercury News - 1 day ago

Photos: Wildfires in Spokane lead to thousands of evacuations

NPR - 1 day ago

Study shows why younger generations may be more cancer-prone

Deutsche Welle - 1 day ago

Climate Change -- Washington's wildfires are a warning for the entire U.S.

Scientific American - 1 day ago

Doomsday warnings erupt as trinity of cosmic events are set to show themselves to Earth

Daily Mail - 1 day ago

Study: Mountain lions are avoiding you

The Mercury News - 1 day ago

Climate Change -- It's 90 degrees in the Arctic right now

Scientific American - 1 day ago

Michigan reports first 2 U.S. deaths in outbreak of cyclospora

Los Angeles Times - 1 day ago

Politics -- U.S. senators push against giving political appointees control over science funding

Scientific American - 1 day ago

Public Health -- Cyclospora outbreak tied to two deaths as parasite-borne illness continues to rage

Scientific American - 1 day ago

Record low Danube levels push some countries in Eastern Europe to the brink of energy emergency

Los Angeles Times - 1 day ago

2,500-year-old marble statue unearthed at ancient Sardis in Türkiye

Daily Sabah - 1 day ago

Ancient mummy DNA provides scientific evidence that colonization brought smallpox to the Americas

CTV News - 1 day ago

England and Wales are on course to record their driest July in almost two centuries after weeks of scorching temperatures and barely a drop of rain.

Daily Mail - 1 day ago

'Poop pills' may ease insomnia by reprogramming the gut microbiome, early study hints -- Reprogramming the gut microbiome with fecal microbiota transplants could reduce the amount of time people with insomnia spend awake. -- Clarissa Brincat -- Published

Live Science - 1 day ago

Britain says it is open to AI regulation if voluntary safeguards fall short

CTV News - 1 day ago

Ecology -- How Antarctica's Blood Falls came to be

Scientific American - 1 day ago