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Thursday, 5 November 2026
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4, 2026, in the journal PLOS One by Annegret Grimm-Seyfarth at Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research—UFZ, Germany, and colleagues found that with training, volunteer dog-handler teams could locate invasive species in the wild with 75% accuracy.
Mount Kilimanjaro is warming in some places and cooling in others, according to a new study by the University of Portsmouth, published in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science.
Conservationists in South Sudan call them the “lines of life.” The map was made by joining up millions of points of data recorded by GPS collars attached to 262 migratory antelopes since 2023.
Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka says he is "very disappointed" and would pursue "another route" to get the Vuvale Union and Ocean of Peace Alliance bilateral agreements ratified.
At least 40 people were killed and another 30 may still be under the rubble after Monday's attack on a Ukrainian village, Kyiv says.
The European Commission wants to move forward with a reform of the supervision of the European auditors, at a time when there is fragmentation that is considered harmful to the market.
A Comissão Europeia quer avançar com uma reforma da supervisão das auditoras europeias, numa altura em que há uma fragmentação que é considerada prejudicial para o mercado.
Automatic translation by Bittrees-hosted AI. The source link opens the original publication.Chinese women are challenging marriage pressures and redefining what it means to be single.
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Drawing on interpretive flexibility within the Social Construction of Technology, this paper examines how different stakeholders understand and experience transparency in generative AI.
But new research shows that ranchers have found ways around these restrictions, rerouting cattle through intermediaries and allowing cattle linked to forced labor to remain in domestic and international beef and leather supply chains.
By Georgina Gustin An international team of lawyers on Wednesday filed a coordinated battery of lawsuits against JBS, the world’s largest meat company, and its financiers, accusing them of money laundering in connection with the destruction of the Amazon rainforest.
A meta-analysis of empirical studies involving more than 31,000 participants has revealed the factors that affect the level of influence of so-called social media influencers.
Insider Brief SuperMatics is developing superconducting materials designed for manufacture into affordable wire for applications including data center power delivery, quantum computing and fusion magnets.
The MeerKLASS Collaboration has reported its first measurement of the large-scale clustering of cosmic hydrogen, advancing a technique that could transform how cosmologists chart the universe.
Light pollution is one of the fastest-growing and least-regulated environmental changes worldwide.
Following his public disputes with California authorities during the COVID-19 pandemic, Elon Musk personally moved to Texas, outside of Austin, in 2020.
An international study jointly led by researchers from the Department of Geography and the Institute for Climate and Carbon Neutrality at the Faculty of Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong (HKU), has revealed that vegetation resilience across Northern Hemisphere permafrost regions underwent a widespread
Delivering net zero also at risk, say MPs as they call for centralised policy and funding for mines and diversification The UK is “dangerously” dependent on China for critical raw materials needed for the military, renewable energy infrastructure and AI, a parliamentary investigation has found.
Seoul to seek parliamentary approval to extend anti-piracy Cheonghae unit’s area to about 650km from the vital strait after criticism from Donald Trump on Iran war support South Korea plans to expand the operations of its anti-piracy unit to waters closer to the strait of
According to Counterpoint Research, Apple and Samsung were the only major smartphone chip vendors to gain market share in Q3 2026, as global shipments declined 21% year-over-year.
Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong, who became the global face of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement has been sentenced.
Democratic physicians, nurses, and scientists won dramatic victories across the U.S.
Forty-eight hours after losing the runoff in Brazil to incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Flávio Bolsonaro, former president Jair Bolsonaro’s eldest son, a senator representing Rio de Janeiro, fled to the United States.
and anti-Israel rallies across the country on Wednesday, marking the National Day of Fighting Global Arrogance and denouncing what they call U.S.-Israeli hegemony.
We walk on them, rake them up, often barely give them a thought, but the humble leaf is an extraordinary feat of biological engineering. Adam Rutherford and Jessica Fostekew are joined plant scientist Tracy Lawson, biologist Jonathan Silvertown, and comedian Alex Kealy to uncover the hidden ingenuity of leaves. They explore how leaves evolved, why plants face a constant battle between thirst and starvation, and whether understanding their clever adaptations could help us engineer crops for a hotter, drier future. Producer: Mel Brown A BBC Studios Production
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The morning after the blue wave, and both hosts spend an hour admitting they got it wrong. Jonah walks through the JD Vance tweet he thinks is the best explanation of what happened. Then the part they didn’t see coming: that affordability was the whole election, and that the Iran war was a political catastrophe regardless of how it looks geopolitically. Avi calls it the end of MAGA politics and a repudiation of Trump rather than of conservatism. Jonah is still kicking himself for not shorting oil, down twenty-three dollars, and has one takeaway: trust the prediction markets over the polls. The
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