ScienceMillions of Nanoparticles Per Sip: Your Compostable Coffee Cup Releases 12 Times More Plastic
Compostable coffee cups shed 12x more plastic particles than regular ones, per new UQ research - reusable cups remain the safest option.
Gadget Review
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WorldDoes the Nepal glacier collapse signal a new climate risk?
Does the devastating flooding unleashed by the collapse of a section of glacier in the Nepalese Himalayas signal a new kind of risk in a world warmed by climate change?Here's what scientists told AFP. - Repeat collapse risk - On Friday, Nepal issued an alert about the risks posed by a large body of water formed in China's Tibet region, following the collapse of a glacier section two days ago.
AFP
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USSecond Child Infected with Brain-Eating Amoeba Following Death of 8-Year-Old
A North Carolina teenager is critically ill after contracting the amoeba Naegleria fowleri, which thrives in fresh water
People
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ScienceTop 10 Roman Space Telescope science breakthroughs
After more than a decade of development, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched to space on Sunday. With its unprecedented field of view—100 times that of the Hubble Space Telescope—Roman is guaranteed to tell astronomers all sorts of new things about our universe, both near and far from home. Every moment since the big bang, the universe has been getting bigger—something first hinted when astronomer Edwin Hubble found that surrounding galaxies are speeding away from our own.
Scientific American7 min read
EntertainmentRelive private Chinese rocket's explosive 1st landing attempt (video)
LandSpace's first attempt to land its Zhuque-3 rocket was quite a spectacle, as newly released video footage reminds us.
Space
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USNorth Carolina teen critically ill with rare amoeba brain infection
Naegleria fowleri can enter the brain through the nose during freshwater activities.
AccuWeather3 min read
HealthWhy are flesh-eating bacteria expanding beyond traditional hotspots?
Scientists have recently documented the bacteria spreading to places that were once too cold for it to survive.
The Hill
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ScienceHow ‘Coastal Freshening’ Threatens Ocean Life
Antarctica's glaciers are dumping fresh water into the Southern Ocean, and the creatures living there have nowhere to run. A new study reveals just how little disruption it takes to trigger a physiological collapse in species that haven't changed their body chemistry in millions of years.
A-Z Animals4 min read
ScienceThe popular diabetes drug metformin has been used for decades — and scientists just figured out its main mechanism
Scientists have debated whether the diabetes drug metformin acts primarily in the intestines or the liver. New findings clear up this confusion.
Live Science5 min read
USPeekachu, beluga whale rescued from Marineland in Canada and transported to Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, dies
Peekachu, one of eight beluga whales recently rescued from a closed Canadian marine park and brought to Chicago's Shedd Aquarium, died suddenly Tuesday evening.
LiveNOW from FOX
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WorldPossible Jesus tomb matching Bible account discovered
Excavations beneath Jerusalem’s Holy Sepulchre reveal a burial landscape resembling New Testament descriptions.
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USHeat Waves Hit The Grid's Supply, Not Just Your AC Bill
Extreme heat simultaneously boosts electricity demand and cuts supply, as power generation heavily relies on water.
Forbes4 min read
BusinessSpain to get world's first wooden wind turbine factory as fiberglass waste piles up
Roughly 78% of old turbine blades end up in landfills or are burned once they're retired.
The Cool Down2 min read
ScienceSpaceX to launch NASA's newest space telescope Sunday. Watch live
A SpaceX rocket is due to propel NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope into space following an Aug. 30 launch in Florida. Here's how you can watch.
USA TODAY3 min read
USAlpha School’s AI teaching model is expanding. Does it work?
When Carl Hendrick took his first ride in a Waymo, the self-driving taxi service, he thought it felt a lot like the future of education. Hendrick is a senior learning scientist at Alpha School, a buzzy private-school company where he trains artificial intelligence models to teach students—a process, he says, that is not unlike training a self-driving car. For Alpha School, the equivalents to the swerving bikes and unexpected pedestrians are more like misconceptions, learning differences or preteen classroom struggles.
Scientific American6 min read
ScienceThe 'immortal jellyfish' has reached every ocean, hitching rides in ships' ballast water
Although the species was first documented in the 1880s, it became a major scientific curiosity only in the 1990s.
The Cool Down3 min read
ScienceOn Cloud 9: Have astronomers discovered the first starless galaxy?
Astronomers are closer than ever to confirming the discovery of the first starless or "failed" galaxy, packed with dark matter and gas but with virtually no stars.
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HealthLettuce-linked cyclosporiasis outbreak expands to 3 more states
The largest foodborne outbreak of its kind in history has expanded, with three additional states now reporting cases of cyclosporiasis linked to recalled iceberg lettuce.
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BusinessUS pilots and flight attendants face higher cancer death risk tied to cosmic rays
The US has not mandated dose limits or any monitoring of these employees.
The Cool Down3 min read
LifestyleHow do you tag the world’s biggest fish? Fins and flexibility.
Marine biologists are studying the Atlantic's whale sharks to understand their gathering spots.
Popular Science
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US18 Largest Environmental Disasters At National Parks
It has been the year of the wildfire. The National Interagency Fire Center reports 51,434 incidents that have burned...
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USInvasive hydrilla is taking over Lake Austin, Texas, and drought is making it harder to stop
"We don't want to repeat what happened in 2012, 2013."
The Cool Down3 min read
WorldWind farm planned close to Flow Country World Heritage Site
The developer says its project involves up to 12 turbines and would see the restoration of peatbog.
BBC2 min read
WorldUnited Nations talks in Mongolia expose growing drought crisis as climate impacts worsen
Representatives from nearly 200 countries wrapped up United Nations desertification talks in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia on Friday, seeking ways to keep land productive as climate change heats the planet and degraded soils and landscapes lose their ability to hold water, produce food and support livelihoods. Up to 40% of the world’s land is degraded, according to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, which organizes the biennial talks. Droughts are also emerging in areas that were not considered highly vulnerable a decade ago, said Yasmine Fouad, the convention’s executive secretary.
Associated Press
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USWest Point ordered professors not to teach human causes of climate change, lawsuit says
A West Point professor is suing the academy, alleging officials fired him after ordering instructors to stop teaching about anthropogenic climate change.
Military Times
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HealthCancer drug trial shows no sign of tumors—here's what happens next
FDA grants priority review to Jemperli after a trial shows yearlong disappearance of rectal tumors.
Newsweek US5 min read
HealthChinese Scientists Develop Muscle Grafts That Can Be Injected Straight Under the Skin
They literally exercise themselves.
Futurism
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ScienceSpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launching NASA's Roman Space Telescope on Aug. 30: How to watch it live
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is scheduled to lift off atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket early Sunday morning (Aug. 30). Here's how to watch it live.
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USTeen critically ill from rare amoeba found in freshwater: Officials
The amoeba can live in warm freshwater, like ponds, lakes and rivers.
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ScienceAncient tree rings in Japan hint at a solar storm powerful enough to rattle today's grid
Researchers found the same signal in trees from Europe and North America, indicating the event was global.
The Cool Down3 min read
ScienceScientists invent a gel that creates neurons from other cells, which could help treat Alzheimer's
Scientists found a way to convert brain cells called astrocytes into neurons. In theory, this could replenish neurons lost in neurodegenerative conditions like Alzheimer's disease.
Live Science5 min read
USFDA approves updated COVID vaccines targeting XFG ‘Stratus’ variant
The FDA has approved updated COVID-19 vaccines from Moderna, Pfizer-BioNTech and Novavax-Sanofi for the 2026-27 season.
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ScienceCollapsed glacier likely caused devastating Nepal-Tibet floods, scientists say
Preliminary investigations by scientists have pointed to a collapsed glacier as the cause, highlighting the issue of rapidly melting Himalayan ice.
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HealthWith the snip of a gene, scientists hope to erase high cholesterol for life
Gene editing reduced cholesterol by about 50% in an extremely small sample of patients over a year of follow-up, according to a new research update.
CNN
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ScienceScientists May Have Proved a Century-Old Theory That the Vacuum of Space Isn’t Really Empty
Heisenberg said extreme magnetism would make nothingness bend light. A dead star just proved he was right.
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WorldConstruction Crews Were Building an Apartment Complex—And Found a 500-Year-Old Castle
Emperor Charles V had the castle built in Belgium in the 16th century, and archaeologists found a bounty of artifacts from that era inside.
Popular Mechanics3 min read
ScienceScientists Found 6,000-Year-Old Human Remains. No Other People Share Their DNA.
An analysis of bones from ancient people has discovered DNA that does not directly connect them to any other ancient or modern population.
Popular Mechanics1144 min read
WorldThe madcap inventors battling Britain’s nurdle invasion
Eager volunteers armed with home-made equipment are tackling an invasion of more than a billion plastic pellets, which is causing an environmental disaster.
The Telegraph
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ScienceScientists narrow the search for dark matter using new galaxy simulations
Stellar streams have long been treated as relatively smooth structures whose gaps, kinks and spurs could reveal invisible clumps of dark matter. Simulations of nearly 15,000 streams found that realistic Milky Way-sized galaxies can create many of the same irregularities without any dark matter subhalo encounters.
The Brighter Side of News9 min read
ScienceNASA’s Powerful New Space Telescope, Just Cleared for Launch, Was Developed by an Intelligence Agency to “Spy on America’s Adversaries”
"What what do you guys think about instead of pointing downwards, we point upwards, and you guys use it?"
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HealthScientists tracked babies' diets for 70 years. One finding stood out
A Cambridge researcher told Newsweek early life may be especially important as food preferences are still being shaped.
Newsweek US4 min read
ScienceHear it: Scientists recreate the sounds of a Jurassic forest from millions of years ago
Little is known about the sounds of the natural environment that dinosaurs inhabited millions of years ago in Jurassic forests, or the exact noises some of these creatures made, but scientists just got a step closer after analyzing fossils.
Fox Weather
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ScienceCuriosity climbs to new heights on Mars | Space photo of the day for Aug. 28, 2026
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured a gorgeous new panorama to celebrate climbing a total of 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) throughout its now 14-year exploration of the Red Planet.
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ScienceWatch live: Trump honors Artemis II crew in Houston, calls International Space Station
President Trump will honor the four-person Artemis II crew Friday at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, months after the astronauts completed the first crewed mission around the moon in more than 50 years. The mission, which took the crew further into space than ever before, was a major step in the Trump administration’s push…
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HealthAnother brain-eating amoeba case leaves teen critically ill
Health officials in North Carolina said the source of the case is under investigation.
USA TODAY2 min read
USMaine waited years for a Lyme vaccine. RFK hobbled the panel needed for a smooth rollout
“All the rules are out the window,” said a physician who once served on the committee that gave guidance on new vaccines. “I don’t know how this plays out.”
The Maine Monitor16 min read
HealthAnswers to 3 questions about a potential Lyme vaccine
Learn where the vaccine’s approvals stand, how effective it is and what is slowing down its potential release.
The Maine Monitor3 min read
BusinessFDA approves Gilead's Bixlenvo HIV pill for complex regimens
Bixlenvo combines two existing Gilead drugs into a single tablet for adults whose virus is suppressed but who can't use current one-pill options
Quartz2 min read
ScienceOperation Blue Skies: how AI is cleaning up contrails
Landmark government-led trial hopes to slash the aviation sector’s impact on global warming
The Week
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Medtronic recalls pH monitoring capsule linked to 184 serious injuries
For the second time in two years, Medtronic has pulled capsules from the market over a fault that could obstruct patients’ airways.
MedTech Dive
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