Flowers and memories: Fans pay tribute to Dolly Parton
Fans honour Dolly Parton in Nashville and Sevierville as New York’s Empire State Building turns pink following the country music legend’s death.Continue Reading
NASA Begins Moon Mission Plume-Surface Interaction Tests
5 Min Read NASA Begins Moon Mission Plume-Surface Interaction Tests Views from different angles of a plume-surface interaction test at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Credits: NASA EDITOR’S NOTE: This story, originally published in December, was revised Aug. 26, 2026 with an update on a new phase ofContinue Reading
FLAG SAG Meeting, 28 Aug 2026
Physics of the Cosmos … Physics of the Cosmos Community FLAG SAG Meeting, 28… About Community Program Analysis Group (PhysPAG) Science Groups Meetings Cosmic Pathfinders Science Gaps Early Career Workshops Opportunities Missions Studies News & Events Resources FLAG SAG Meeting Future Large Gamma-Ray Mission Concepts Science Analysis Group FLAGContinue Reading
Contractor to Civil Servant: NASA Welcomes Jeret Howard
Jeret Howard, logistics management specialist at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, poses for a photograph on July 27, 2026. Howard is now a NASA civil servant at Stennis as part of the administrator’s directive to strengthen technical core competencies within the civil service workforce. NASA/Danny NowlinContinue Reading
Ottawa business owner exposes convincing overpayment scam
An Ottawa business owner is warning others about after nearly losing thousands of dollars to an overpayment. CTV’s Katie Griffin reports that Kevin Moberg of Signarama Nepean was contacted by someone claiming to represent a Toronto business looking to have decals installed on a fleet of vehicles. After receiving aContinue Reading
LIVE: Rubio meets Mexican counterpart Velasco
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio meets with Mexican Foreign Secretary Roberto Velasco at the State Department. #marcorubio #robertovelasco #us #mexico #live #Reuters #News Keep up with the latest news from around the world: https://www.reuters.com/Continue Reading
A warehouse built to hold up to 54 million items burned down in Tambov Oblast, Russia
Ukrainian drones struck the Wildberries logistics hub in the Russian town of Kotovsk for the second time in six weeks, Ukrainian monitoring channel Exilenova+ reported. A fire took hold across most of the 108,000-square-meter complex, and by late morning, the regional governor said the warehouse was destroyed. Wildberries, Russia’s biggest onlineContinue Reading
Frontline Rolls: Ukrainian soldiers document their lives at the front on film
Frontline Rolls, a documentary photography project by Ukrainian photographer Serhii Melnychenko, began in February 2025, when Serhii started sending disposable film cameras to soldiers serving in different areas of the front line. He asked them to document their daily lives, routines, and work. The project has since been published asContinue Reading
Clean Air Policies Help Kids Breathe and Think Better
New research finds that reducing air pollution can reverse harms to children’s health. By Keerti Gopal Growing up with dirty air harms kids’ health. But reducing pollution can help reverse the damage. Continue Reading
A teacher’s slap, student’s death revive India’s corporal punishment debate
Teja’s death raises question India has not fully answered: why more than a decade after ban is hitting children routine?, New Delhi, India – Around noon on Thursday, Krishna Prasad received a telephone call from a friend informing him that his six-year-old son, Pranay Teja, had collapsed in school and had been taken toContinue Reading
ICC chief urges Japan to counter US pressure on the court
Washington escalated its campaign against the ICC last week by sanctioning its president and a senior trial lawyer., Washington escalated its campaign against the Hague-based court last week by sanctioning its Japanese president, Tomoko Akane, and a senior trial lawyer. Japan should try to counter the United States’ efforts toContinue Reading
If OpenAI has nothing to hide, it has nothing to fear
Apple has filed a motion demanding expedited discovery in its trade secrets litigation against OpenAI. The lawsuit alleges that OpenAI and some former Apple employees now at the AI firm deliberately worked to exfiltrate valuable trade secrets from Apple. The initial allegations describe a series of serious attempts to grab this information, includingContinue Reading
What are ‘open’ AI models?
The tech industry faced something of a reckoning in late 2022 with the arrival of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, a simple chatbot that could answer questions, seemingly by magic. The early frontier large language models (LLMs) from OpenAI and rivals like Anthropic and Google could reason, solve problems, and answer detailed queriesContinue Reading