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A black hole estimated at about a million solar masses lit up while shredding a star more than 30,000 light-years from its galaxy’s nucleus. TDE 2025abcr is the...
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WHO’s 2026 global mid-term assessment finds HIV-related deaths fell 57% from 2010, while hepatitis B-related deaths rose 17% from 2015. All three disease responses remain off track for...
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The IEA forecasts renewables will overtake coal in global electricity generation for the first time in 2026. Yet gas-price shocks are pushing some systems toward coal, and power-sector...
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The first privately owned operational robotic servicer designed to inspect and upgrade multiple geosynchronous satellites has launched. It must spend about a year raising its orbit and prove...
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Intrinsically disordered proteins with no catalytic active site promoted hydrolysis of ATP, nucleic-acid-like substrates and other molecules after forming liquid-like condensates. The peer-reviewed result is based mainly on...
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MAVEN data complete evidence that local crustal fields in southern Mars drive the same type of reconnection cycle behind Earth’s aurora. The system is about 20 times smaller...
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WHO’s first global DoxyPEP recommendation says clinicians may conditionally offer one 200 mg dose, ideally within 24 hours and no later than 72 hours after condomless sex, to...
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A global study combining about two decades of observations found that when relative sea-level rise exceeded 9 mm per year, the probability of accelerating salt-marsh and mangrove loss...
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A UK-US-Australian team linked large radio telescopes and a satellite communications antenna as distributed radar receivers and publicly demonstrated real-time detection and measurement of geostationary-orbit objects. It remains...
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The European Commission has adopted two binding measures requiring equal access to 11 core Android features for rival AI services and anonymized Google Search data for eligible competitors....
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Sustaining net-zero across multiple greenhouse gases could lower global mean temperature by at least 0.6 C over centuries. This is not immediate cooling from stopping all emissions today;...
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NASA's Juno made the first spatially resolved measurement of heat rising from roughly 2-6 metres below Io's surface. Temperature increased by more than 20 C within the upper...
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Two children with severe SCN2A-related developmental epilepsy received antisense oligonucleotides designed separately for their own mutant gene copies. Seizure frequency fell 26% and 90% over two years, but...
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The European Commission said on 23 July 2026 that Google breached the Digital Markets Act and issued total fines of €890 million. The two issues are Google Search...
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UNEP says its Methane Alert and Response System is using AI and satellite observations to find large methane emission sources faster and help turn them into mitigation action....
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The European Commission sent TikTok preliminary findings on 24 July 2026 saying minors accounts do not meet DSA online safety standards. The central issue is that minors content...
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The World Bank Group and GFDRR estimate direct physical damage from Venezuela’s 24 June 2026 earthquakes at $19.6 billion. The figure is not a recovery-needs budget or total...
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A Nature paper highlighted by NASA questions the long-running idea that Earth’s upper-atmosphere response to strong solar wind saturates at a ceiling. After accounting for measurement uncertainty and...
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A Nature Microbiology study published on 24 July 2026 reports that the oral candidate GHP-88310 suppressed direct-contact and airborne transmission in a ferret model of measles-like disease. It...
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Official WHO and ECDC material shows the 2026 Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda is still active. ECDC says DRC reported 2,905...
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WHO says the global road traffic death rate fell by 21% from 2011 to 2025. But about 1.16 million people still died on roads in 2025, and road...
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The IEA Electricity Mid-Year Update 2026 projects global electricity consumption rising from 28,600 TWh in 2025 to 30,700 TWh in 2027. The key point is that cooling, electrification,...
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The European Commission has issued a code and guidelines for AI Act Article 50 transparency duties that apply from 2 August 2026. The core point is that AI...
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SOFI 2026, issued by five UN agencies, estimates that global hunger fell for a third straight year to about 645 million people in 2025. But about 2.69 billion...