A deadly fungus that has wiped out hundreds of amphibian species worldwide may have started its global journey in Brazil. Genetic evidence and trade data suggest the fungus hitchhiked across the world via international frog meat markets. The findings raise urgent concerns about how wildlife trade can spread hidden biologicalContinue Reading
Labour’s latest U-turn? 61 backbenchers pile pressure for Starmer to back Tory peer’s amendment The British government may impose a ban on under-16s using social media, despite Labour prime minister Keir Starmer having previously expressed skepticism over the measure.…, Read MoreContinue Reading
Traditional considerations back in vogue. On-device AI? Not so much The majority of PCs that commercial resellers shipped to enterprise customers in Q4 were AI-capable, however, it was the traditional levers of price, battery life and performance these biz buyers were mostly sold on.…, Read MoreContinue Reading
After the U.S. toppled Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s new leader bows to Washington, raising doubts about whether the once-defiant Chavista revolution can survive., Read MoreContinue Reading
On Centre Stage, Al Jazeera’s Mohamed Hassan speaks with Ali Omar, Somalia’s minister of state for foreign affairs., Centre Stage In this episode of Centre Stage, Al Jazeera’s Mohamed Hassan speaks with Ali Omar, Somalia’s minister of state for foreign affairs, about Somaliland’s secession bid backed by Israel, the fightContinue Reading
Residents say police exercise feels less like routine survey and more like an attempt to control religious institutions., Mohammad Nawaz Khan regrets the day his father, Sanaullah Khan, a retired government employee, agreed to head the managing committee of the neighbourhood mosque in Indian-administered Kashmir’s main city of Srinagar. Khan’sContinue Reading
Paul O’Hare, BBC Scotland and Lisa Summers, Scotland health and social care correspondent John Cuddihy says the bacterial infection had a ‘devastating’ impact on daughter Molly The father of a woman whose death is being investigated by prosecutors said a health board was “warned for years” about issues with aContinue Reading
Conservative shadow energy secretary Claire Coutinho has endorsed two new anti-climate reports that have been rejected by experts and government bodies. On 12 January, Coutinho launched a report by energy consultancy Watt-Logic which claimed that increasing renewable energy capacity in the UK will heighten the risk of blackouts – aContinue Reading
In the chaotic lead-up to and aftermath of the United States’ January 3 military raid on Venezuela, a national security expert named Rebeccah Heinrichs appeared multiple times on Fox News to describe American aggression as a victory for both ordinary Venezuelans and the world — sometimes more than once aContinue Reading
Scientists brought bacteria and phages, meaning viruses that infect bacteria, aboard the ISS to study their evolution. (Image credit: International space station (dima_zel/Getty Images); E.coli (Shutterstock)) Bacteria and the viruses that infect them, called phages, are locked in an evolutionary arms race. But that evolution follows a different trajectory when the battle takes place inContinue Reading
January 14, 2026 4 min read Add Us On Google Add SciAm ‘Little Red Dots’ Spied by JWST May Be Baby Black Holes in Disguise Puzzling red spots in images from the James Webb Space Telescope are probably young supermassive black holes obscured by dense cocoons of gas By Lee Billings edited by Clara MoskowitzContinue Reading
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is part of a U.S. group whose leader, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry, has been tasked by the Traitor 47 administration with helping to annex Greenland. In the wake of the surprise U.S. military invasion of Venezuela, The Traitor has doubled down on threats to take over Greenland, musingContinue Reading
At least 10 killed in Pakistan shopping mall fire, Read More NBC NewsContinue Reading