Traditional plastic forks shed harmful microplastics. Plastic created from sugar is an alternative
At a Massachusetts lab, pebble-sized pellets are transformed into forks and films that won't leave persistent microplastics in the environment.
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Report confirms record-high greenhouse gases, global sea level and ocean heat in 2025
According to the 36th annual State of the Climate report, greenhouse gas concentrations, global sea level and ocean heat content all reached record highs in 2025.
Jackie, a beloved bald eagle and livestream star, dies of mysterious illness
Thousands mourn the death of the eagle at California’s Big Bear Lake, whose life was closely followed via livestream Jackie – the beloved bald eagle at California’s Big Bear Lake whose livestream was followed by millions of viewers as she birthed and raised chicks – died on
American Academy of Pediatrics calls Trump vaccine order 'dangerous'
The president of the American Academy of Pediatrics blasted President Trump’s Monday executive order calling for fewer childhood vaccines. "As measles cases reach a 35-year high in the U.S. and with cold and flu season quickly approaching, today's executive order on vaccines
Rogers Makes False 9/11 Claim About El-Sayed
Republican Mike Rogers has provided no evidence that Democrat Abdul El-Sayed “believes that America deserved 9/11,” as Rogers falsely claimed in a statement this month. Instead Rogers’ Senate campaign has pointed to past comments made by a liberal political commentator.
Oak leaves harbor distinct microbial worlds on their opposite surfaces
A single leaf may look like a simple patch of green, but to the microscopic life that inhabits it, it is a vast landscape divided into different worlds.
Common-ground curriculum boosts tolerance and civic engagement in pilot study
Social cohesion is the glue that holds society together. Now, those bonds are breaking, and polarization has been growing for years. Educational programs aimed at strengthening social cohesion by promoting greater tolerance often focus on social differences, such as ethnicity,
White House thrusts vaccines back into headlines
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Healthcare Healthcare The Big Story White House thrusts vaccines back into headlines The Trump administration appeared to be backing away from making moves on changing vaccine policy in recent months, perhaps wary of political
13 Fields of Mistria Tips For First-Time Farmers
Starting your first farm in Mistria 1.0? Here are a few things that will make your journey easier
Tech companies must face thousands of lawsuits over social media addiction, appeals court rules
A U.S. Appeals Court on Monday declined to drop the thousands of online safety lawsuits against social media firms, ruling Meta and TikTok appealed the cases too early. In an opinion issued Monday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals determined the technology liability shield
What to know about Trump's vaccine executive order
President Trump on Monday signed an executive order advancing "Make America Healthy Again" vaccine priorities, issuing recommendations to split up combined vaccines and to reduce the number of childhood immunizations. "Effective immediately, my administration is recognizing
DNA repair enzymes favor specific sequences, shaping mutation patterns in the human genome
When a wound does not heal properly, it leaves a scar. Similarly, mutations—which are permanent changes to genetic code—are often the result of damaged DNA that has not been properly repaired. Mutations can impede the function of genes and lead to disease and aging, but they
US had hottest month on record in July
July 2026 marked the hottest month on record for the contiguous United States, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Monday, continuing a recent trend driven by human-caused climate change.
Trump wades into data center debate amid political battle
{beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story Trump backs data centers as Texas sets new standards President Trump is touting the benefits of AI data centers after Texas moved to more strictly regulate the industry, which has rapidly become a political lightning rod across
The vibey offroading game with more than a million Steam wishlists has a release date
Over the Hill looks set to be a low key hit.
Nvidia gets $500bn from major banks to develop AI data centres
The money will be used to develop new data centres to house, operate, and cool miles of stacked computer chips that process AI data and actions.
Unscripted Producer Rachel Tung Renews ABC & Hulu Development Deal (EXCLUSIVE)
Veteran unscripted producer Rachel Tung has renewed her development deal with ABC and Hulu, Variety has learned exclusively. Under the renewed deal, Tung will continue developing original unscripted programming for Disney and serve as showrunner on select projects for ABC and
Trump struggles to gain leverage with Iran
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Trump struggles to gain leverage with Iran America’s depleted arsenal of premier offensive and defensive weapons is undermining President Trump’s
Engineered enzymes forge carbon-carbon and carbon-nitrogen bonds with high selectivity
Researchers from the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, including Dr. Zachary Birch-Price and professor Anthony Green, have developed a new family of engineered enzymes that can create several different types of chemical bonds used to build complex molecules. This work
Drought dries major European rivers to record lows
Vast tracts of many of Europe's largest rivers, including the Rhine, Rhone and Danube, have slowed to a trickle never before recorded in July, data from a European climate observatory showed Monday.
Competitors squeal like pigs at French village championship
Competitors from France and abroad gather in the village of Trie-sur-Baïse for its annual pig-squealing championship, a quirky festival that draws thousands of visitors.
Steam User Claims $109 Refund Despite 470 Hours Played After Battlefield 6 Deletes An Entire Mode
Rush was removed from Quickplay to help with matchmaking
Nathaniel Mary Quinn’s Fragments of Home
His fractured portraits at the National Public Housing Museum reckon with memory, family, and a childhood shaped by Chicago’s Robert Taylor Homes.
Cooper maintains 7-point lead over Whatley in NC Senate race: Poll
Democrat Roy Cooper has a healthy lead over Republican Michael Whatley in the North Carolina Senate race, according to a new poll. Half of the 915 respondents to the Carolina Forward survey, conducted by left-leaning Change Research, backed Cooper with less than three months
Cook Political Report shifts Max Miller seat to toss-up
The nonpartisan Cook Political Report shifted Rep. Max Miller’s (R-Ohio) seat from “Likely Republican” to “Toss Up” on Monday, underscoring the growing political fallout from allegations of domestic violence against the incumbent. Miller has faced mounting scrutiny in recent
Over 500 jurisdictions ban data center construction, threatening US’ pole position in AI race
Efforts to build data centers powering AI are running full-steam into mounting opposition across the US – with more than 500 jurisdictions now banning or restricting the hulking industrial complexes, including over 150 local bans passed in July alone. The count, tallied in a
id Software dev says mass layoffs like Microsoft's are weakening the games industry, because developers 'don't have the incentive to care anymore'
"A lot of gamers, even if they don't know it, they can feel it's not right. There's something wrong."
The sediment story: A journey that impacts India's rivers and surrounding landscapes
Every monsoon, India's rivers turn brown. To most of us, that color simply means muddy water. But hidden within it is the material that builds fertile floodplains, creates river islands, nourishes deltas and even shapes coastlines: sediment.
When it comes to predicting people's preferences, it pays to consider 'the power of three'
In his 1927 paper, "A law of comparative judgment," the American psychologist L. L. Thurstone proposed that when people select one option among multiple alternatives, they are picking the one that has the highest value to them, even though they cannot assign a particular number
Why Doctors Telling Patients Their Symptoms Are “Normal” Can Backfire
It can discourage patients from pursuing treatment The post Why Doctors Telling Patients Their Symptoms Are “Normal” Can Backfire appeared first on Nautilus .
North Korea condemns Japan’s White Paper, calling it ‘re-invasion paper’
Pyongyang has ratcheted up its criticism of Tokyo’s defence policy in recent weeks.
Commentary: The real reason behind Trump’s yen intervention
The United States is bolstering the Japanese yen, as it did with the Argentine peso. The reasons are not solely economic, says Cornell University's Eswar Prasad.
Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t understand how to live
Recently, a man I was rock climbing with told me about how he'd used AI to make a motivational poster for himself, which he'd hung on his bedroom wall: a bear, walking a slackline over a canyon, holding a sign that said, "Do cool shit." I made what I hoped was a polite noise.
Water quality, not just scarcity, may shape future competition for a limited resource
Climate change is largely to blame for water scarcity. The low water levels in European rivers this summer speak volumes in that respect.
Persona Boss Feels Remake Of 1 And 2 Is Something ‘We Have To Do’ Eventually
Gotta complete the set at this point, it seems
Rippling hits back at NYC AI startup’s trade secret lawsuit in messy legal battle
“It takes a certain boldness to accuse a competitor of violating intellectual property laws while infringing on that competitor’s inventions. But that’s exactly what Runlayer has done here,” a spokesperson for Rippling told The Post.
Trump again waives shipping rules to bring prices down
{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Trump again waives shipping rules to bring prices down The Trump administration is once again waiving U.S. shipping rules as part of an effort to keep gasoline and other fuel costs down, the White House said
Common carp relatives blunt koi herpesvirus infections, offering clues to outbreak control
Common carp are among the world's most widely farmed freshwater fish, providing food and livelihoods for millions of people. But across fish farms and freshwater ecosystems, they face a formidable threat: a highly contagious virus capable of causing devastating outbreaks and
Photosynthetic microorganisms achieve long-lasting and renewable chemical production
Photosynthetic microorganisms can use light energy to convert carbon dioxide into useful compounds under mild, environmentally compatible conditions. However, many current photosynthetic production systems rely on cells growing freely in large volumes of liquid. This creates a
Divers Stumble Upon 2,000-Year-Old Roman Shipwreck in Italy
The wreck off the coast of Italy, filled with clay vessels, is being hailed as “one of the most important underwater archaeological discoveries of recent years.”
Councils to get more powers to stop vape and betting shops, PM announces
Prime Minister Andy Burnham said town centres had been "hollowed out" by decades of decline.
Trump insists Netanyahu relationship 'very good' despite Gaza rift
President Donald Trump insisted on Monday that his relationship with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is "very good" despite the Israeli leader's rejection of a US-led Gaza plan. "The relationship is very good," Trump said in response to a shouted question from a journalist
Return of displaced Syrian Kurds to hometown suspended after violence
The return of displaced Syrian Kurds to their northeastern hometown of Ras al-Ain was suspended on Monday after a first group of returnees was attacked, prompting protests in other Kurdish-majority parts of Syria. Hundreds of people had gone back to the town on Monday, months
Switch Game Some Players Paid $60 For Disappears In A Cloud Of Virtual Smoke
The Nintendo version of Aliens: Fireteam Elite is gone, including its single-player mode
Uncovering how Cryptococcus shifts from silent infection to killer fungus
For most healthy people, Cryptococcus is an unnoticed infection. The immune system walls it off in the lungs and keeps it dormant for life. But in patients undergoing cancer chemotherapy, recovering from an organ transplant, living with HIV or taking newer immunosuppressing
“Taxi and ambulance drivers are less likely than...
“Taxi and ambulance drivers are less likely than workers in almost any other job to die of Alzheimer’s disease.” The key difference: “the constant work of locating yourself in space, tracking a destination and updating a mental map as conditions change.”
Shakira, J Balvin, More Colombian Stars Support Earthquake Victims
Some have shared links to donate supplies and used their platforms to help families locate loved ones after 7.4 quake rattles cities like Bogotá, Medellín, and Cali
Rocket debris crashed into the moon—why this could threaten future lunar bases
In the early hours of Wednesday morning, Aug. 5, the upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket crashed into the moon in an uncontrolled collision.
