Eight countries including France, Spain and Kenya are pushing for increased taxation on premium air tickets and private jet travel to fund climate action and development. The newly formed “coalition…
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New black hole recipe could hold the key to quantum gravity: ‘This is the holy grail of theoretical physics’
The first step toward quantum gravity, the “holy grail of physics,” may be hiding in a quantum recipe to cook up black holes. That’s the suggestion of new research that…
Keeping brain-dead pregnant women on life support raises ethical issues that go beyond abortion politics
Adriana Smith, a 30-year-old woman from Georgia who had been declared brain-dead in February 2025, spent 16 weeks on life support while doctors worked to keep her body functioning well…
New insights on genetic damage of some chemotherapies could guide future treatments with less harmful side effects
Credit: CC0 Public Domain For the first time, scientists have systematically studied the genetic effects of chemotherapy on healthy tissues. Researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, the University of Cambridge,…
Viewpoint: Convoluted SCOTUS decision upholds Texas law requiring pornography websites to verify users’ ages, but confusions abound
The Supreme Court upheld a Texas anti-pornography law…that is nearly identical to a federal law it struck down more than two decades ago. Rather than overruling the previous case — Ashcroft v. ACLU (2004)…
Breast cancer risk in younger women may be influenced by hormone therapy
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have found that two common types of hormone therapy may alter breast cancer risk in women before age…
Companies are racing to develop the first useful quantum computer—ultracold neutral atoms could be the key
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The race to build the first useful quantum computer is on and may revolutionize the world with brand new capabilities, from medicine to freight logistics. Tech…
Analytical model evaluates performance of grant-free communication in densely populated IoT environment
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Imagine a world where every smart device, from traffic sensors to wearable health monitors, can seamlessly communicate. This vision is at the heart of Massive Machine…
Ancient boomerang found in Polish cave stuns scientists
A study of a Palaeolithic boomerang found in Poland’s Obłazowa Cave has been dated to 42,000 years ago, making the discovery the oldest example in Europe and potentially the world.…
Left-Handed Creativity Myth Debunked – Neuroscience News
Summary: The long-standing belief that left-handed people are more creative has been challenged by a new meta-analysis of over a century of research. After reviewing nearly 1,000 studies, researchers found…
