An Etruscan well opened with bronze offerings and closed with two bodies
University of Bologna archaeologists found 2,500-year-old votive bronzes at the base of a sacred well at Kainua — and, from a later period, two human skeletons placed when it was…
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Eight months after US forces seized its president, Venezuela signed away 65 billion barrels
A 25-year agreement hands US firms majority control of the world’s largest proven oil reserves — signed by an unelected government installed after an American military operation captured Nicolás Maduro…
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Three countries got their first World Heritage site this year. Twenty-three still have none.
The Committee inscribed 25 sites in Busan, from Sarnath to the D-Day beaches to a…
Europe’s €20 travel authorisation just lost its launch date. Do not pay anyone for it.
The EU has removed the 2026 target for ETIAS, with 2027 now considered likely. The…
Four astronauts, one oxidizer leak, and the case for stopping
Crew-13 was due to launch on 12 September. Routine prelaunch checks found a leak in…
The world loses $411 billion a year to bad eyesight. Fixing it costs $25 billion.
Uncorrected refractive error is the leading cause of vision impairment worldwide. New WHO guidance argues…
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Nvidia made $96 billion in a quarter. Its CFO used the call to rebut a charge nobody had put to her.
Data-centre revenue more than doubled to $89 billion. On the same call, finance chief Colette Kress named and disputed the…
America’s biggest grid operator will start switching off data centres in 2027
PJM serves 67 million people. After a capacity auction cleared at eight times its former price, its board decided new…
A phone call, a single sign-on, and four days: inside the McKesson breach claim
Attackers say they took a terabyte from the largest US drug distributor after voice-phishing employees for credentials. The 284-million-record figure…
140,000 tech jobs are gone this year. The AI explanation keeps outrunning the evidence.
Company after company has named AI as the reason for cuts. One firm went out of its way to deny…
The strongest genetic risk factor for Alzheimer’s stops predicting much after 90. Except in some groups.
A cohort of 800 people followed past their ninetieth birthdays found women at roughly double the risk of men, disparities persisting into the tenth decade, and APOE4 behaving nothing like…
There is an Ebola vaccine, and half a million doses. WHO says not to use them normally.
The DRC outbreak has killed nearly 2,800 people at a 48 per cent fatality rate. It is caused by Bundibugyo virus — not the species Ervebo was built against, and…
A sleep apnoea pill cut breathing events by 44 per cent. That is four events an hour.
AD109 met its primary endpoint in a 646-patient Phase 3 trial and faces an FDA decision in February. The responder analysis and the fatigue endpoint both missed — and regulators…
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