A superplume from the edge of Earth’s core is tearing East Africa apart
GPS data and 3D models point to a column of hot rock rising from 2,900km down as the force behind the East African Rift — explaining crust movements the textbook…
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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…
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 South Sudanese migration route — and put six more, including Tyre, on the danger list.
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 reason is its sibling system: biometric border checks that have been producing queues at around…
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 Dragon’s propulsion system — the part that performs both the ascent abort and the deorbit…
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 the obstacles are tariffs, licensing rules and workforce law — not technology.
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…
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 it. Labour economists say the correlation still is not there…
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 is their claim — and worth separating from what McKesson…
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 data centres must bring their own generation — or go…
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 "circular financing" criticism — a question about what a record…
NASA turned its dying telescope back on. It has until roughly October.
A $30 million rescue mission tumbled out of control before it could reach the 21-year-old Swift observatory. NASA restarted its instruments anyway, to gather data until atmospheric drag brings it…
It snowed on the driest place on Earth, and the world’s best telescopes had to shut down
Two storms in six days buried northern Chile’s Atacama Desert in snow, forcing ALMA into survival mode and stranding freight. One coastal town recorded ten times its annual rainfall in…
The famine forecast arrived in June. The money to prevent it did not.
WFP projects 49 million more people in acute food insecurity by the end of 2027. Early action costs a fraction of emergency response — and has been funded at roughly…
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