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NASA’s Swift Observatory has made its final observation and will re-enter the atmosphere within weeks, leaving behind a 12-terabyte archive of gamma-ray bursts, supernovae and more.
Three weeks after the first tent camps, Portugal’s housing protests keep growing. Demonstrators want a new rental bill scrapped, while the government bets on tax-backed affordable rents.
Some videos start like a perfectly normal afternoon and then quietly take a left turn into a dream. This one opens in a bright concrete passage, the kind of place you walk through without a second thought, with sunlight falling in neat stripes between the pillars. A young woman strolls along, unhurried, as if she…
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A new Nature Health study estimates 50,391 heat deaths in 854 European cities in summer 2026 and blames about 65 percent of them on human-caused climate change.
The US Energy Department has designated helium a critical material, opening federal financing for producers as the Hormuz closure and Russian and Chinese export curbs tighten global supply and leave Europe scrambling.
Every friend group has that moment when a calm afternoon drink suddenly turns into something much louder. In this clip, it happens at a little marble table outside a café. Three friends in straw hats and breezy summer outfits raise pink cocktails garnished with lemon, clink glasses, lean in close and laugh about something that…
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The City Council passed Romanch’s Law 40 to 7, phasing out carriage rides by June 2028 with a transition plan for drivers and a slaughter ban for the retired horses.
Prime Medicine has dosed the first patient with PM577a, an infusion designed to rewrite a single faulty DNA letter in liver cells and let the body clear excess copper again. First data are expected in 2027.
France’s 10-year bond yield touched 5% and its spread over Germany neared 2011 crisis levels as a weakened government struggles with the 2027 budget, street protests and an election on the horizon.
A new study shows the Bangka slow loris, last documented by science in 1937, still lives across its Indonesian island, where rescuers have saved more than 90 animals since 2015.