Loading TBN…
Friday, 16 October 2026
TBN · World, economy, technology & science.
Subscribe — daily, weekly or monthly
The United Nations Secretary-General appealed on Friday for governments, businesses and communities to accelerate efforts to protect biodiversity for future generations and all life on Earth.
An artificial intelligence (AI) model can score English essays with improved accuracy across different writing topics, according to work published in the International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-Long Learning.
As transatlantic relations confront renewed geopolitical uncertainty, former Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves delivers a pointed assessment of Washington's shifting approach to Russia's war on Ukraine and the profound implications for European security.
Most studies of how clouds are responding to climate change focus on clouds over the oceans, rather than over mountains.
Promises by nations to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to finance nature and increase protections for oceans around the globe are falling short ahead of a key U.N.
In physics, tipping points occur when systems—say, Earth's climate—reach an unstable point and topple over into a sea of change that is sometimes irreversible.
New research published in Current Biology led by professor Katie Field demonstrates for the first time that it can establish a fully functional, resource-sharing partnership with an ancient soil fungus known as a Mucoromycotina fine root endophyte (MFRE).
Nearly half of the reptiles were protected under CITES, the global wildlife trade treaty.
Solutions are urgently needed, but while scientists, conservationists and more than 75 nations have called for binding limits on fossil fuel-driven plastic production, the plastics industry is opposed to all limits and is instead pushing a collection of technologies known as ‘chemical recycling.’ Critics say
Supporters of planned tax, however, say banks were bailed out by taxpayers during financial crisis and can afford to pay more now John Healey poised to raise taxes on banks in budget The International Monetary Fund has urged John Healey to target savings on pensions
As the supercooled propellant flowed into the core stage, and NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket roared to life, Allison Mjoen and her family watched with awe and pride.
3 Min Read As the supercooled propellant flowed into the core stage, and NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket roared to life, Allison Mjoen and her family watched with awe and pride.
Automatic translation by Bittrees-hosted AI. The source link opens the original publication.Two global election markets on Polymarket’s offshore platform, for instance, generated over $600 million in trading volume, far more than most political markets typically attract.
Their findings point to an organized campaign to inflate citations on paper mill–produced journal articles published in established molecular oncology journals.
When the Covid-19 pandemic devastated his business, as it did with so many restaurants, Mazumdar took out a $370,000 economic injury disaster loan (EIDL) from the federal government in early 2021.
Monitoring of 1,819 posts showed far-right users tried to manipulate Grok, X’s AI tool Originally published on Global Voices Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Insider Brief Germany’s BMI, BMDS and BSI have published a national guideline for implementing the EU roadmap for transitioning to post-quantum cryptography (PQC).
Exchange rates are more than just abstract numbers.
The big news of EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's State of the Union speech in September was that Canada could become an associate member – an arrangement that does not exist for the EU's partners at the moment.
Insider Brief A “Quantum 101” session at the World Trade Organization, co-organized by the permanent missions of Israel, Singapore and Switzerland, introduced trade negotiators to quantum technologies and their implications for trade.
The post SEGA Genesis game Vixen 357 coming to Nintendo Switch, first western release appeared first on Nintendo Everything.
Global timekeepers have voted to end the practice of adding extra seconds to UTC, citing risks to computer systems and the prospect of the first-ever negative leap second.
A study led by the Centre for Global Wood Security formally defines the concept of global wood security and identifies the 20 greatest challenges to wood security in the 21st century.
The proposal was adopted unanimously today in a final overall vote.
A proposta foi aprovada hoje por unanimidade em votação final global.
Automatic translation by Bittrees-hosted AI. The source link opens the original publication.A Florida State University–led review shows how ultrahigh-resolution mass spectrometry can help researchers identify the molecular fingerprints of human activity in water systems around the world.
Nature, Published online: 16 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03341-3 Nature staff discuss a new ink that could be useful for medical tattooing — plus, an insight into why small dogs live longer than big ones.
TBN