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Saturday, 7 November 2026
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A new study has found that a self-reinforcing interaction between temperature, soil moisture and atmospheric pressure is being triggered at high temperatures, making extreme heat waves 10% hotter than they would otherwise be.
Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have identified a specialized lipid barrier in the fruit fly pupa that protects against dehydration in dry and hot environments.
Apple's iPhone Duo has been officially on sale for two weeks, and the company said today that the App Store now has over 100,000 apps that are built for the foldable.
Shezra Mansab Kharal, Pakistan’s Minister of State for Climate Change and Environmental Coordination, is keen to emphasise this aspect of the conference.
Global tech stocks have plunged after the Democrats’ victory in the US midterm elections, with fears of a slowdown in AI development.
Officials across Europe reported a fresh slew of bomb threats against multiple flights on Friday, November 6, following a string of hoaxes that have caused flight diversions this week.
As climate change intensifies, drought is widening globally, causing alterations in water-dependent pathogen patterns, leaving scientists scrambling to understand how infectious disease transmission is evolving.
An international team of researchers led by UT Southwestern Medical Center has developed a versatile light-sheet microscope that captures 3D views of biological samples, from activity inside living cells to larger tissues.
This year may be seen as a turning point in the climate crisis.
The Republican Party's crushing defeat in midterm elections has left Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky optimistic about future support for Kyiv and stronger transatlantic relations.
Insider Brief Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Investment Corporation (ITIC), led by President Karen Yu, is developing a Taiwan–UK deep tech innovation corridor to connect British research with Taiwan’s engineering, manufacturing and investment capabilities.
In an interview with FRANCE 24, John Bolton, who served as national security adviser to Donald Trump during his first term, called the US midterm results "the beginning of the end" for Trump's stranglehold on the Republican Party.
US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth is under growing pressure, with victorious Democrats planning to target him in Congress and Republicans blaming the Iran war he championed for their election losses.
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By Phil McKenna The German government has launched an international initiative to curb emissions of sulfur hexafluoride, an exceptionally potent greenhouse gas that it says has long been overlooked in efforts to address climate change.
It took around 480,000 trucks to haul away 4.8 million metric tons (5.3 million tons) of rubble across western Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa tore through the Caribbean in 2025, United Nations satellites showed.
A new study led by researcher Philipp Aglas-Leitner from Freie Universität Berlin, published in Nature Communications, finds that future heat waves could last longer, impact larger areas, and be much more severe.
For the first time, an international team of researchers from Germany, Thailand, India, China and the United States has created a three-component Hubbard system with tunable interactions in the laboratory.
We also consider the scale and scope of Europe Wide Protests: This week housing organisations, trade unions and activist groups from seven countries met in Paris issuing a joint call for demonstrations.
This post is part of Global Voices’ October 2026 Spotlight series, “Big Tech and Authoritarianism.” In this Spotlight, we explore how Big Tech facilitates and hinders authoritarian governments and practices, and how these choices influence the Global South.
China, meanwhile, expressed concern over the US' "economic, trade restrictive" measures.
The company has about 600 workers in Portugal.
A empresa tem cerca de 600 trabalhadores em Portugal.
Automatic translation by Bittrees-hosted AI. The source link opens the original publication.China's intelligence agency recruited Megaspeed executive Alice Huang to spy on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, according to The New York Times.
Several tanker ships linked to Iran have been loitering over subsea Internet cables in the Gulf of Oman near the Strait of Hormuz—a possible indication that the Iranian government is preparing to attack such undersea infrastructure in response to any renewed US and Israeli strikes.
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Nature, Published online: 06 November 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03632-9 Nature staff discuss an acrobatic reptile defence strategy — plus, evidence of fossilized dinosaur blood cells.
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