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King Charles holds key meeting at Palace: Statement released
4+ hour, 11+ min ago (183+ words) Published June 25, 2026 Princess Anne's husband Sir Timothy Laurence, presented King Charles with a special honour at a key meeting in Buckingham Palace. The monarch received a Fellowship of the Science Museum Group during an audience with the Royal Society on…...
Australia detects first case of contagious H5 bird flu
5+ day, 6+ hour ago (491+ words) Published June 20, 2026 SYDNEY: Scientists have detected the H5 strain of bird flu in Australia for the first time, the country's agriculture minister said on Saturday, meaning the highly contagious variant has now spread to every continent. Federal Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries…...
Deep-sea denizens go years without food with clever biological fix
5+ day, 23+ hour ago (701+ words) Published June 19, 2026 A pill bug dwelling under a garden pot curls its body into a tiny armoured ball as self-defence. Far below the ocean surface, some of its much larger relatives face a harder problem: how to stay alive when…...
It's a new world
2+ week, 1+ day ago (120+ words) Published June 10, 2026 The US-Israel attack on Iran has accelerated the collapse of an international order that had already begun to fracture under the weight of endless wars, economic instability, technological rivalry and shifting centres of global power. Pakistan must now…...
Why Trump is dismantling peer review system: Everything to know about OMB rule
3+ week, 19+ hour ago (249+ words) Published June 03, 2026 The Trump administration wants to make a big rule change. It would let political appointees have way more control over federal research grants. Critics think this move is about aligning science with the President's policies, not merit. So…...
Mathematicians say 'don't believe hype' on AI capabilities
3+ week, 1+ day ago (387+ words) Published June 02, 2026 Dozens of mathematicians on Tuesday signed a declaration calling for the discipline to resist beating the drum for artificial intelligence developers. The "Leiden Declaration", backed by over 150 professors from across the world, including Europe, Japan and the US,…...
Mystery deepens as one of 11 missing US scientists found dead in National Forest
3+ week, 1+ day ago (318+ words) Published June 03, 2026 One of the 11 nuclear and UFO-linked missing U. S. scientists has been found dead almost one year after she went missing under bizarre circumstances. Melissa Casias, 54, was a nuclear lab employee when she vanished without a trace in June 2025; however,…...
China launches three-crew space flight as part of Moon ambitions
1+ mon, 17+ hour ago (596+ words) Published May 24, 2026 BEIJING: China launched its Shenzhou-23 mission on Sunday, which will see a Chinese astronaut spend a full year in orbit for the first time, a crucial step in Beijing's ambition to send humans to the Moon by 2030. The…...
School bus-sized asteroid 2026 JH2 flies past Earth today at 56, 000 miles: See full details
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (230+ words) Published May 18, 2026 Scientists discovered a new asteroid roughly the size of a school bus to fly safely past Earth today, May 18, 2026. The asteroid will be approximately within 56, 000 miles of our planet, about a quarter of the distance to the moon....
Portrait of a killer: The deadly virus that refuses to die " Ebola's 50-year reign of death
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (636+ words) Published May 17, 2026 Ebola, which has killed more than 80 people in a fresh outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and one person in Uganda, has been wreaking havoc in Africa for 50 years now. During that time, it has claimed more…...