Today: October 08, 2026
Today: October 08, 2026

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US has lost or sustained damage to 81 military aircraft worth up to $3.3 billion in Iran war, congressional report says

US has lost or sustained damage to 81 military aircraft worth up to $3.3 billion in Iran war, congressional report says

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Pneumonic plague, by the numbers

Pneumonic plague, by the numbers

Environment|Science

Encroaching energy, mine concessions threaten protected ecosystems, research shows

Millions of hectares of protected tropical ecosystems are at risk from overlapping mining concessions and oil and gas blocks, researchers said on Thursday

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Isaias rapidly intensifies into season’s first Atlantic hurricane as Gulf Coast braces for landfall

Isaias rapidly intensifies into season’s first Atlantic hurricane as Gulf Coast braces for landfall

Health|Science

FDA says its safety review of abortion pill will continue into next year

The Food and Drug Administration says its ongoing safety review of the nation’s main abortion pill will continue into next year

Science|Technology

IceCube is built on decades of research into tiny ‘ghost particles’ – but it was the first to find neutrinos coming from deep space

IceCube looks for high energy neutrinos from space. It joins the ranks of complementary experiments that study neutrinos originating closer to home.

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Asia shares slip, bonds submerged in tide of AI debt

Asian shares slid on Thursday as strains in sovereign bond markets were aggravated by reports some major tech companies were seeking to raise billions in debt

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US grants Aurora exemption for self-driving trucks safety feature

The US transportation department said late on Wednesday it approved a five-year exemption for Aurora and other self-driving trucking companies from

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Disaster relief funding is creeping into Trump's midterm rhetoric. Critics say it has no place there

President Donald Trump has turned emergency relief into a campaign talking point as a major hurricane approaches the U.S. Gulf Coast

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Bezos says Blue Origin likely to pursue IPO in coming years

Blue Origin is likely to pursue an initial public offering in the coming years, billionaire founder Jeff Bezos said on Wednesday, after the space company raised $10 billion from

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Samsung flags $80 billion profit on AI boom, highest quarterly for any tech company

Samsung Electronics on Thursday projected its quarterly profit would top 100 trillion won, a world first for a technology company, estimating

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In drought-stricken Sri Lanka, farmers watch wells empty and wildlife crowd shrinking water holes

Sri Lanka is facing severe drought, leaving reservoirs dry and farming communities struggling

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Nepal ends search for thousands of flood victims, leaving some families angry and others relieved

The families of thousands missing after Nepal's catastrophic floods have mixed feelings about the government's decision to stop search efforts

Science|Technology

Margaret Hamilton, whose software helped land Apollo astronauts on the moon, has died

Margaret Hamilton, whose software helped land Apollo astronauts on the moon, has died

Health|Science

Kennedy offers federal support to New York over measles outbreak

New York Governor Kathy Hochul spoke with U.S. Health Secretary Robert F.

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TikTok gave teens, children placebo safety feature in experiment, New York alleges

TikTok ran an experiment on thousands of users who tried to turn on a safety feature on the platform, giving them non-functional versions of the tool, according

Economy|Environment|Science

Tropical Storm Isaias forecast to hit US Gulf coast as hurricane early Saturday

Tropical Storm Isaias formed in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday and is forecast to strengthen into a hurricane before slamming into the southern US

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Some guardrails on ChatGPT for Teens don't work as promised, watchdog group says

Some of the guardrails for children that OpenAI included in its ChatGPT for Teens product do not work as intended and the chatbot poses an “unacceptable risk” to children

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Exclusive: Nicolás Maduro and his wife expected to face new charges over alleged torture of Americans

Exclusive: Nicolás Maduro and his wife expected to face new charges over alleged torture of Americans

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Christa Pike is angry and confused after surviving execution attempt, attorney says

Christa Pike is “angry and confused” after surviving an attempt to execute her in Tennessee

Finance|Science|Technology

Wolfspeed secures $1.5 billion conditional loan commitment from US defense department

Chipmaker Wolfspeed said on Wednesday it has received a conditional loan commitment for up to $1.5 billion from the US Department of Defense to expand domestic production of silicon

Science|Technology

Many drugs have mirror chemical structures, one helpful and the other harmful – a Nobel-winning discovery allows chemists to make either on demand

From thalidomide to resveratrol, molecules with the exact same chemical properties can have drastically different effects in the body depending on how they’re arranged in space.

Health|Science|Travel

CDC sees low plague risk, monitors Siberia arrivals after worker death, director says

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Erica ‌Schwartz said

Health|Science|World

Russia says plague institute worker's death does not risk an epidemic

Russia's health regulator said on Wednesday there were no risks of an epidemic breaking out in Siberia after a plague institute

Science|Technology

Trump to appear at White House science event on Thursday

US President Donald Trump will speak at a White House event on scientific discovery on Thursday, according to a social media post from his tech adviser

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US FCC to vote to ban all Chinese labs from testing US electronics

The Federal Communications Commission said on Wednesday it will vote on October 29 to bar all Chinese labs from testing electronic devices such as

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Microsoft brings more AI to PCs as it challenges Apple

Microsoft unveiled on Wednesday an AI coding model that can run directly on personal computers and new security technology to prevent AI agents from

Environment|Science|Travel

Humpback whales fill Monterey Bay, offering perfect whale-watching conditions

Humpback whales fill Monterey Bay, offering perfect whale-watching conditions

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Anthropic launches third Claude 5.5 model, expanding AI lineup before planned IPO

Anthropic on Wednesday launched Claude Haiku 5.5, the third model in its Claude 5.5 family in the past month, expanding its artificial intelligence lineup ahead of a planned IPO.

Crime|Health|Science

Christa Pike survived 2 doses of an execution drug. How is that possible?

Christa Pike has regained consciousness and is speaking a week after receiving two doses of execution drugs in Tennessee

Education|Science|Technology

OpenAI says teens use ChatGPT for under 15 minutes a day as worries over risks grow

Teens spend under 15 minutes a day on average on ChatGPT, while less than 2% of them interact with the chatbot for over three straight hours,

Health|Science

Unknown virus leaves some Iowa patients sick for weeks

Unknown virus leaves some Iowa patients sick for weeks

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Florida asks court to force Meta to change Facebook, Instagram for teens

Florida asked a state judge on Wednesday to order changes to Instagram and Facebook to better protect young users, pressing ahead with a lawsuit accusing parent

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FireFly Robotics files for Nasdaq direct listing

FireFly Robotics, which makes electric turfgrass harvesters and autonomous golf-course mowers, on Wednesday filed to go public through a direct listing.

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Before a natural disaster, a governor’s order can free up the National Guard and medical help

Government officials in the United States can declare a state of emergency before severe weather events like hurricanes or floods strike an area

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Twin Cities boy gets Star Wars-themed wheelchair costume

Twin Cities boy gets Star Wars-themed wheelchair costume

Environment|Science

This island was home to the planet’s largest penguin colony. Here’s why it just lost that title

This island was home to the planet’s largest penguin colony. Here’s why it just lost that title

Arts|Election|Science|Technology

FCC considers allowing more political robocalls before midterms, including those created with AI

The Federal Communications Commission is considering a request to loosen rules on political robocalls, including those with AI-generated voices

Environment|Science|Technology

Scientists win chemistry Nobel for discoveries about mirrored molecules that led to many drugs

Scientists Henri B

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NY Fed September survey finds public expecting more near-term inflation

By Michael S.

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France suspends use of stun grenades to police student protests

The French government said on Wednesday it was pausing the use of stun grenades in its policing of student protests, after a 15-year-old

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Pope Leo opens Vatican meeting likely to discuss remarriage, gay Catholics

Pope Leo urged an assembly of some 150 bishops from around the world to find "renewed ways" of helping modern families at the start of a week-long

Business|Science|Technology

US FCC to vote on advancing new spectrum auction to boost 'direct to device' services

The US Federal Communications Commission said on Wednesday that it will vote on October 29 on whether to advance a new auction of wireless spectrum to

Health|Science

Checklists, masks and mystery: What we know about the plague scare in Russia

Checklists, masks and mystery: What we know about the plague scare in Russia

Science|Technology

Huge companies have dominated AI. Two startups with an entirely different approach think they can do better

Huge companies have dominated AI. Two startups with an entirely different approach think they can do better

Science|Technology

US government, Google join Zuckerberg-backed Biohub in $1.8 billion push for AI biology data

The US government and tech heavyweights Meta Platforms and Google parent Alphabet are joining nonprofit Biohub to build open datasets to train AI models for biological

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Buckwheat growers hope new markets can help it reach more tables

For Paige Hansen, changing the food system starts with changing the ingredients

Education|Science|Technology

AI behaves more like a brain than a database – cognitive science’s role in its origin story helps explain why

Modern AI owes its existence to both cognitive and computer science. What you envision as its origin story can influence how you understand what large language models can do.

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IMF chief urges countries to do more to curb debt and regulate AI

The head of the International Monetary Fund says countries both rich and poor must take faster action to cut debt and counter growing inequality as their economies weather a triple whammy from the AI boom and shocks from wars in the Middle East and Ukraine