Earth may have lost the Sun’s protective shield millions of years ago
NASA-funded studies suggest Earth’s climate has been influenced by both the Sun’s travels through dense regions of the Milky Way and the violent superflares of its youth. Those events may help explain ancient ice ages as well as how early Earth stayed warm enough for liquid water when the SunContinue Reading
Fedora 44: Best New Features
We round up the best new features of the upcoming fedora 44 workstation edition release. Fedora 44 is released on April 28, 2026. This significant release brings the latest and greatest GNOME 50 to Workstation, Linux kernel 6.19, and many practical updates across desktops and tools. It balances new technologyContinue Reading
Tim Curry’s Cause of Death Revealed; Friends and Co-Stars Remember the Late Icon
New details have emerged about Tim Curry’s death. According to documents from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health obtained by People, the beloved actor died from coronary artery disease. Curry died Aug. 25 at his home in Los Angeles’ Toluca Lake neighborhood. He was 80. The records alsoContinue Reading
Twenty Ukrainian firms are racing to catch Russia’s jet-powered Shaheds. This one’s interceptor is already flying combat missions
Twenty Ukrainian companies are now building jet-powered interceptors to down Russia’s increasingly fast jet-powered drones. One of them, the Ukrainian-British startup Firebolt Engineering, already has an interceptor flying combat missions with two Air Force units and Ukraine’s special operations forces, Defender Media reports. Russia launched more than 2,500 jet-powered dronesContinue Reading
Russia’s air war has cost the average Ukrainian mall 166.8 working days since 2022, about eight months of closed floors
Air-raid alerts covered a record share of working hours at shopping centers across Ukraine in August. Sirens ran for 21.8 percent of the hours malls were open, the Ukrainian Council of Shopping Centers reported. For more than a fifth of the hours malls were open to serve customers, sirens insteadContinue Reading
Africans bear the brunt of biodiversity loss
For millions across Africa and the developing world, the biodiversity crisis is not an abstract problem – it’s the soil that no longer yields bountiful harvests and the fish that no longer return to coastal waters.Continue Reading
China’s Carbon Pollution Fell in Recent Months as Oil Demand Plummeted
The world’s second-largest oil consumer cut its use by 9 percent as the Iran war crimped supply. The drop could accelerate China’s pivot away from the fossil fuel. By Nicholas Kusnetz China’s carbon pollution fell modestly in recent months after the country’s consumers and industries sharply cut their use ofContinue Reading
Girl rescued by free-climbing neighbour from balcony in Turkiye
A man scaled a building to rescue a girl dangling from a 3rd floor balcony in the Turkish city of Diyarbakir., Skip links Skip to Content Live Navigation menu News Africa Asia US & Canada Latin America Europe Asia Pacific Middle East Explained Sport Opinion Video Features Economy Human RightsContinue Reading
US medical groups issue vaccine guidance, urge jabs for flu, COVID and RSV
Top medical groups say current evidence shows these vaccines protect against severe illness and death., Top medical groups say current evidence shows these vaccines protect against severe illness and death. A coalition of leading medical groups in the United States has urged the public to get updated vaccinations for influenzaContinue Reading
Chasing a perfect sleep score? You could be making it worse
Chasing a perfect sleep score? You could be making it worse Sleep scores, magnesium, white noise machines – what was once the simple act of sleeping has become a minefield. Trying to optimise sleep in this way is called “sleepmaxxing”. Take it too far, and you could end up withContinue Reading
Canonical joins the Open Secure AI Alliance
Canonical recently joined the Linux Foundation’s Open Secure AI Alliance to help make open-source security tools for AI systems and autonomous agents. The alliance formed in July 2026 in response to the security breach at Hugging Face, when OpenAI models undergoing a safety test broke out of their sandbox toContinue Reading
APOD: 2026 September 3 – The Eclipse and the Stork
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 3 – The… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written byContinue Reading
Peatland Fires Darken Skies in Indonesia
Earth Observatory Science Aqua Peatland Fires Darken Skies in… Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth Human Dimensions Natural Events Oceans Remote Sensing Technology Snow & Ice Water More Content Collections Global Maps World of Change ArticlesContinue Reading