Senators are renewing calls for anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy to step down or be ousted—and at least one is calling for a criminal investigation—amid the release of documents they say prove Kennedy lied… Read more: “RFK Jr. has lied to the Senate”: Lawmakers call for criminal probe, ouster

New data compiled by a Bay Area anti-surveillance advocacy group shows that not only are American localities dropping cameras from Flock Safety, but they are doing it at an accelerating rate. Communities from Lansing, Michigan,… Read more: Cities terminate Flock contracts at record pace in August

Kalshi today lost a major ruling over whether it can evade state gambling laws, as a federal appeals court found that Nevada can stop the prediction market from allowing sports bets. While the Trump administration… Read more: Court rules Kalshi sports bets aren’t “swaps,” just gambling with a different name

A federal court has overturned the U.S. Defense Department’s ban on Anthropic PBC’s artificial intelligence models. Judge Rita Lin wrote in a late Thursday ruling that the Pentagon’s move was “illegal and baseless.” The saga… Read more: Court rules Pentagon can’t ban Anthropic’s AI models

Nvidia reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, a deal that could reshape enterprise AI, open-source models, and the broader AI stack. The post Nvidia’s $12.9B Hugging Face Bet: A New Battle for… Read more: Nvidia’s $12.9B Hugging Face Bet: A New Battle for Control of the AI Stack

Operation Bluebird has launched Twitter.now while fighting X over rights to the Twitter name, betting nostalgia and AI tools can build a new social network. The post A Startup Brought Back ‘Twitter’ — Now X… Read more: A Startup Brought Back ‘Twitter’ — Now X Is Suing

I’m on record declaring James Cameron’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) to be The Best Damn Sequel of All Time, and I stand by that assessment. August 29, the fictional date (in 1997) of the… Read more: Our 10 favorite scenes from T2: Judgment Day

Apple increased the price for a monthly subscription to Apple TV by $2, to $15, today. Annual prices increased by 20 percent from $99 to $119. Current subscribers will receive one month’s notice before paying… Read more: Apple One and Apple TV subscription prices increase by up to 20 percent

During a visit to Johnson Space Center, President Trump on Friday signed an executive order to establish a new commission with the purpose of creating the first national space academy. “It’s clear that we will… Read more: Here’s what we know about the “space academy” Trump just announced

The Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal, a federal judge ruled in an order vacating government directives against the use of the firm’s AI technology. The government illegally retaliated against Anthropic by designating it… Read more: Trump blacklisting of “woke” Anthropic deemed illegal by federal judge

Meta is rolling out an obvious fix to make its AI glasses less creepy amid backlash over the glasses’ non-consensual recordings that have flooded the Internet. On Friday, The Verge reported that Meta closed a… Read more: Meta makes AI glasses slightly less creepy with limit on nonconsensual recording

In this week’s newsletter: Anti-datacentre sentiment is growing across the political spectrum in the US – and the public is only just finding out about the potential effects on their energy bills • Don’t get… Read more: Is the environmental impact of datacentres finally cutting through?

When Dolly Parton died this week, everyone mourned. She was the queen of country music and a magnetic actress, enrapturing the public with her bodacious but kind personality. She was a feminist icon and also… Read more: Data Shows That Mark Zuckerberg Is the Anti-Dolly Parton: Instead of Being Loved by Everybody Across the Political Spectrum, Pretty Much Everybody Despises, Him Regardless of Their Beliefs

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss cool old books, new toys for ICE,… Read more: Behind the Blog: The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Flamin’ Hot Slop

In a joint statement earlier this week, United Nations chief António Guterres and Red Cross president Mirjana Spoljaric Egger sent out an urgent message. “We are now dangerously close to crossing a moral red line:… Read more: Russia Now Using Fully AI-Controlled Drones to Kill Ukrainian Civilians, Powered by Nvidia Chips

Some chimpanzees in West Africa repeatedly throw rocks at particular trees, creating piles of stones that can remain in use for more than a decade. Researchers think this unusual behavior may be cultural and could… Read more: Chimpanzees have been hurling rocks at the same trees for more than a decade

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will combine Hubble-like detail with a field of view 100 times larger, giving astronomers a sweeping new way to explore the cosmos. Its observations could uncover hidden planets, map billions of… Read more: NASA’s Roman telescope will see 100 times more sky than Hubble

The artificial intelligence juggernaut kept cruising along this week thanks to big earnings results from Nvidia — and even Salesforce, the supposed epicenter of the SaaSpocalypse. Nvidia not only beat all expectations for revenue, CEO… Read more: It’s Nvidia’s world. We just live in it

Scientists have created light-activated drugs that helped blind mice perceive light again and restored visually guided behavior without gene therapy, implants, or specialized lighting. Even more intriguingly, two of the most promising compounds worked when… Read more: Experimental eye drops help blind mice see again

The strategic growth investment, which included both primary funding and a secondary employee tender offer led by Summit Partners with participation from Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Wells Fargo, Docusign and others, will support Socure’s global expansion… Read more: Socure Announces Growth Investment at $5.2B Valuation and Acquires Fravity

A recent paper argues that AI is often better at doctoring than doctors. Guess who isn’t thrilled.

As he negotiates Australia’s AI future, the prime minister is under pressure from leaders of conservative states and territories Australian Politics podcast: Who actually benefits from new datacentres in Australia? Get our breaking news email,… Read more: The tussle over Australian datacentres is just beginning – and it’s been far from easy so far | Tom McIlroy

LLMs aren’t running your ad auction. They’re coaching the models that do. Here’s how DoorDash and others are using large language models as teachers, not workers, to build faster, smarter ad systems that still hit… Read more: Advanced genAI architectures

Government says Green leader’s proposed moratorium on ‘energy-guzzling’ AI projects would be disaster for economy Labour has rejected calls to pause construction of major AI infrastructure in Britain after the Green party leader, Zack Polanski,… Read more: Labour rejects Zack Polanski’s call to ‘slam brakes’ on building AI datacentres

AWS will shut down Amazon Mechanical Turk on Sept. 30, ending a 21-year platform that supplied human data and labor for research and AI projects. The post Amazon Mechanical Turk to Shut Down Sept. 30… Read more: Amazon Mechanical Turk to Shut Down Sept. 30 After 21 Years

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plans to buy at least a million dollars worth of robots from Boston Dynamics, the company that makes the dog-like SPOT robots, with the purpose of improving “officer safety,” according… Read more: ICE Plans to Spends Millions on Boston Dynamics Dog Robots

Claude now shares memory across Chat and Cowork. Here’s how to pause, reset, or limit what Claude remembers and what controls users still lack. The post Claude Memory Now Follows You Into Cowork — Here’s… Read more: Claude Memory Now Follows You Into Cowork — Here’s How to Turn It Off

In May, Meta laid off roughly ten percent of its global workforce, affecting almost 8,000 people. The vast culling came amidst repeated promises of an AI-led technological revolution that would make human labor a thing… Read more: Mark Zuckerberg Had a Secret Plan to Replace Meta Staff With AI Agents, and It Backfired Spectacularly

ARIA now requires Australian chart-eligible music to be substantially human-made, excluding songs where AI creates the primary creative elements. The post ARIA Bans Fully AI-Generated Songs From Australian Music Charts appeared first on TechRepublic.

Welcome to Edition 9.08 of the Rocket Report! Some major news this week from the state of Louisiana, previously associated with space due to NASA’s aging Michoud Assembly Facility near New Orleans. Now the state… Read more: Rocket Report: Europe splashes some cash on launch startups; Pallas-1 nears debut

Authorities in Australia said Wednesday that they arrested two men accused of participating in cybercrimes for TeamPCP, a prolific group of hackers that, over nine months, has carried out a relentless series of supply chain… Read more: Authorities arrest 2 alleged members of prolific hacking group TeamPCP

The company is testing robots that can swap cables, reset servers, and take on other tasks performed by technicians, fueling concerns among some workers that their jobs could be at risk.

The art portfolio platform Cara, designed for creators who don’t want their work used to train AI, has been under assault by trolls seizing and publishing its data.

Top Offerings for Digital Leaders Reinventing Operations and Transforming Business Models KnowBe4, the leader in digital workforce security, securing both AI agents and humans, today announced it was named to the Constellation ShortList for Human Risk… Read more: KnowBe4 Ranks on Constellation ShortList™ for Human Risk Management Solutions

Data platform pioneer brings 30+ years of enterprise scale to cement AtScale’s role as the semantic foundation for trusted AI. AtScale, the leading semantic layer for enterprise AI, today announced the appointment of Mihir Shah,… Read more: AtScale Appoints Former Fidelity CTO Mihir Shah to BOD

NVIDIA-Certified Hypervisors validation supports near bare-metal GPU performance for AI factories and secure multi-tenant AI infrastructure Mirantis, delivering Kubernetes-native infrastructure for AI, today announced that k0rdent AI has been certified through the NVIDIA-Certified Hypervisors program, validating… Read more: Mirantis k0rdent Joins NVIDIA-Certified Hypervisors Program

Beneath the rocky slopes of Mount Timpanogos lies far more ice than anyone walking across the surface might suspect. Researchers used gravity measurements to map the buried glacier in 3D and found it is about… Read more: Scientists find a huge hidden ice reservoir beneath Utah’s mountains

More than 1,000 volunteers buried cotton underwear across Switzerland to help scientists measure how active different soils are. The faster the fabric disappeared, the more biological activity was taking place underground. Gardens showed the fastest… Read more: Why scientists asked 1,000 people to bury their underwear

Scientists tracking thousands of animals found that our physical presence can reshape where wildlife moves and lives, sometimes as strongly as roads, cities, and other human development. Because different species reacted in very different ways,… Read more: Scientists tracked 4,500 animals and found a surprising human effect

The Global Anti-Scam Alliance (GASA) has officially partnered with TruthScan. GASA is integrating TruthScan’s deepfake detection technology into scam.org (a scam-prevention website and project by GASA). Users of scam.org will now be able to upload an image to the… Read more: GASA Partners with TruthScan to Integrate Deepfake Detection on scam.org

Building on the Insider Threat Matrix, the new Synthetic Insider Threat Matrix provides common language, MITRE ATT&CK-style framework, and means to investigate real and growing AI insider threats Above Security (Above), the AI-native managed insider threat… Read more: Above Security and Forscie Launch Synthetic Insider Threat Matrix

Every one of 212 plant-based meat alternatives and drinks tested in the UK contained at least one naturally occurring fungal toxin, though concentrations remained below recommended EU guideline levels. Researchers say the bigger question is… Read more: Scientists tested 212 plant-based meat alternatives. Every one contained fungal toxins

Ask an agentic AI system to shut down, and a growing body of research shows it may act like an employee negotiating a layoff. Agentic systems have been documented misrepresenting their own actions, resisting deactivation,… Read more: Agentic AI is learning to resist the off switch

About 80 people sign open letter to Andy Burnham calling for legislation to protect voice ownership Nicola Coughlan, Hugh Bonneville and Matt Lucas are among a raft of actors backing a campaign against artificial intelligence… Read more: Nicola Coughlan and Matt Lucas among stars backing campaign against AI voice cloning

Energy minister says states can apply to use coal and gas supply to power datacentres but must prove it is cheaper than renewables Chris Bowen insists federal Labor’s new national laws on datacentre power supply… Read more: No special carve-out for states using fossil fuel to power datacentres, Chris Bowen insists, despite new conditions

National cabinet met on Wednesday to discuss the federal government’s plan for new AI datacentre development. Queensland and the Northern Territory have won a carve-out so that theirs can be powered by coal and gas… Read more: Who actually benefits from new datacentres in Australia? – podcast

Anthropic ​argued designation as ‘supply chain risk’ could cost the company billions ‌of dollars in lost business ‌and reputational harm A US federal judge ruled Thursday that sanctions imposed in February by the Trump administration… Read more: Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic was unlawful, US judge rules

A federal judge has called the Department of Defense’s designation of Anthropic as a national security supply-chain risk “illegal and baseless.”

Revisited: Guardian journalist Michael Safi looks into the world of artificial intelligence, exploring the dangers and promises it holds for society Today in Focus is on a summer break and will be back with new… Read more: Black Box: episode 5 – The white mask – podcast

Anthropic PBC today previewed a standard that makes it easier for artificial intelligence agents to control machines such as microscopes. The Model Hardware Standard, or MHS, is the fruit of a collaboration between the Claude… Read more: Anthropic previews MHS standard for AI agents that operate machines

Bill Gates argues some jobs should remain human as AI advances, proposing “Human Reserved” roles and new taxes intended to curb worker displacement. The post Bill Gates Says Some Jobs Should Be Off-Limits to AI… Read more: Bill Gates Says Some Jobs Should Be Off-Limits to AI

xAI has now been accused of training Grok on child sex abuse materials (CSAM), as regulators and courts continue to probe how far the problem goes, and some Grok users have been arrested. In a complaint… Read more: Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says

For all the interest in and uptake of agentic AI systems over the past year or so, the world of automated AI has thus far been primarily limited to text, images, code, and other data… Read more: Anthropic’s new hardware standard lets AI agents control the physical world

Instinct, the developer of an artificial intelligence assistant popular among Silicon Valley tech workers, is reportedly raising $250 million in funding. The company told the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday that the round is being… Read more: Consumer-focused AI assistant startup Instinct reportedly raising $250M

Basement, arguably New York City’s best-known contemporary nightclub, has always had a tight, Berghain-esque door policy. That’s part of its allure. You stand before the bouncer and await to receive their vibe check, and you… Read more: NYC’s Buzziest Nightclub Announces Stance On Smart Glasses: Even Try To Bring Them In, You’re Banned Forever

Donald Trump may be preparing to announce sweeping new semiconductor tariffs at the absolute worst time, the tech industry fears. On Thursday, Politico reported that a wide range of new semiconductor tariffs, which the tech… Read more: AI industry says Trump plans to tax chips in the “single dumbest way imaginable”

Nvidia is reportedly moving forward to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion. The acquisition could help the hardware giant expand and fortify its deep integration with the wider AI industry. Among other things, Hugging Face… Read more: Report: Nvidia to acquire AI model repository Hugging Face for $13 billion

Republican campaign committees want the Supreme Court to mandate lower prices for election commercials on broadcast TV stations. If the court agrees, broadcasters would be forced to offer their lowest ad prices to political parties… Read more: GOP heads to Supreme Court after losing case over TV election ad prices

Enterprise AI capabilities are improving almost everywhere, yet the returns still trail the spending. The technology is reaching production, but it often stops short of the business process where revenue, innovation and risk actually live… Read more: The enterprise AI payoff shifts beyond models to mission-critical workflows

This week on “Uncanny Valley,” senior writer Will Knight talks his recent visit to China and the future of AI collaboration.

Oleh_Slobodeniuk/Getty Images In July 2026, more than 200 community members gathered at Mandoon Bilya (Helena River) in Perth’s eastern suburbs. They planted more than 3,000 native flora as part of a wetland restoration project. The… Read more: The fight over AI data centres is becoming Australia’s next Indigenous policy challenge

Artificial intelligence is changing what storage and data management platforms look like. In collaboration with Super Micro Computer Inc. and Solidigm, DataDirect Networks Inc. has introduced DDN Enterprise AI HyperPOD, built on Nvidia Corp.’s AI… Read more: The AI storage stack gets an inference-era rethink

Nvidia Corp. has reportedly bought Hugging Face Inc., a startup with a popular platform for hosting open-source artificial intelligence projects. Rumors that an acquisition was in the cards first leaked on Monday. Business Insider broke… Read more: Nvidia reportedly acquires AI project hosting platform Hugging Face for $12.9B

In the wake of news on Tuesday that two people in Pennsylvania died from measles, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been posting a slew of anti-vaccine rhetoric and misinformation on social media—marking a… Read more: RFK Jr. goes full anti-vaccine bananas over two measles deaths—one was a newborn

For the first time in decades, NASA has rolled out one of its iconic astronaut training aircraft with a bold, new look. The space agency debuted a new livery on one of its T-38 jets… Read more: The iconic T-38 jets flown by astronauts just got a spiffy new look

A protein’s function is determined by its structure, and structure — the way a protein folds — is determined by its sequence of amino acids, the building blocks of proteins.  Many methods for designing novel… Read more: Looking beyond natural sequences

Authentic Interactions (AI, Inc), creator of Lookalike, StoryFile, and Authentex, today announced a partnership with Soniox, a leading provider of real-time speech recognition technology. Under the partnership, Soniox will power the speech recognition layer for Lookalike and StoryFile, enabling… Read more: Soniox and Lookalike to Bring Multilingual Digital Humans to Market

Deerfield Beach, FL – New AI governance service gives organizations real-world visibility into how AI tools are being used before putting controls in place ECW Network & IT Solutions, a Fort Lauderdale-area managed service provider,… Read more: ECW Network & IT Solutions Unveil AI Control Framework (AICF)

After an affair with a fellow police officer ended, a Georgia cop used Flock to track her movements—and those of a man whose vehicle often showed up near hers, internal investigation records show.

Meta has officially ended a landmark legal standoff over social media addiction among children, agreeing to pay some $18 billion over the next ten years and make sweeping changes to how it approaches child safety.… Read more: Meta Forced to Make Massive Changes Limiting How Minors Can Use Instagram and Facebook

The potential for AI to automate scientific research and manufacturing must be balanced with new risks, Anthropic says.

“Elena Vasquez and Marcus Chen have appeared as volcano experts, astronauts, thriller protagonists, podcast hosts, and academic co-authors across hundreds of independently produced AI-generated documents, never having lived,” a new preprint research paper from Samsung… Read more: The AI ‘Ghosts’ Contaminating Academic Publishing

Runable Inc., a platform that uses artificial intelligence to help businesses build, run and grow, announced Wednesday that it has raised $21 million in early-stage funding to scale its operations and reach more enterprise outfits.… Read more: Runable raises $21M to realize small businesses’ growth vision using AI agents

Since the release of ChatGPT in 2022, artificial intelligence (AI) has dominated the cultural landscape. Uptake across various sectors, including law enforcement, quickly followed, usually with minimal foresight and little to no guardrails, like effective… Read more: How AI-powered policing is endangering the public’s trust in police

Grocers and greengrocers | Serbelloni group AI warning | Walking over cars | Christmas catalogues | Appropriate names Living with nostalgia as I am, I enjoyed solving the Wordsearch in Monday’s paper featuring old occupations.… Read more: A new start after 60 in an old occupation | Brief letters

Whether mathematics thrives or perishes in the age of AI depends on what it is that society values in the human intellect, writes Dr Henry Bradford I share Kasra Rafi and Bruce Schneier’s impression that… Read more: Surprising AI breakthroughs raise soul-searching questions for mathematicians | Letter

Code reviewed by WIRED reveals the company is developing a feature that enables Codex to continue working proactively until it is “put to sleep.”

“Protect our water,” “Water for people not AI,” “Don’t mess with our water,” declare protest signs from Texas to New Mexico to Arizona. Angered by water use, energy consumption, and pollution, locals are increasingly protesting… Read more: How much of a problem is AI’s water use?

Documentation files on more than 100 websites are referencing potentially dangerous executable content that gets installed automatically when visited by many AI agents. A few dozen companies, some of them Fortune 500s, are among those… Read more: Claude, Codex, and Hermes installed unowned code inside corporate networks

A thousand years ago, feasts in what’s now northern Georgia (in the US) included cacao from Central America. Potsherds discarded after an 11th-century feast at Etowah—an Indigenous city just north of what’s now Atlanta, Georgia—contained… Read more: Traders brought Central American cacao to Georgia 1,000 years ago

Panic, the indie game publishers behind the quirky, yellow crank-sporting Playdate gaming handheld, is issuing refunds to customers who had to shoulder the cost of inappropriate tariffs imposed by the Trump administration this year. The… Read more: Panic passes Trump tariff refunds back to the Playdate customers who paid them

One thousand Swiss citizens voluntarily buried their cotton underpants for two months—not to keep the Underpants Gnomes from stealing them, but as part of a citizen science project to map out soil health across Switzerland.… Read more: Why did 1,000 Swiss citizens bury their underpants?

Claude Opus 4.6 exploited a gym API flaw in 9 of 10 controlled tests, highlighting security risks when AI agents gain backend access. The post Claude Opus 4.6 Found a Gym API Flaw — Then… Read more: Claude Opus 4.6 Found a Gym API Flaw — Then Exploited It in 9 of 10 Tests

 The annual event will highlight how organizations are shifting to an increasingly autonomous workspace and building trust in AI Omnissa, a leading digital work platform company, today announced that Omnissa ONE 2026, its flagship conference,… Read more: Omnissa ONE 2026 to Explore the Future of End-User Computing

New in-market presence targets growing demand for enterprise AI, data, and cloud transformation in Latin America’s largest economy Blend360, a premier AI services provider, today announced its expansion into Brazil, establishing an in-market presence to help… Read more: Blend Expands into Brazil, Accelerating Enterprise AI Adoption in LatAm

Moonbug Entertainment, the children’s entertainment studio that makes the hugely popular shows Cocomelon, Little Baby Bum, Blippi, and Mia’s Magic Playground has asked its animators to start using artificial intelligence while making its shows, 404… Read more: Cocomelon’s Studio Tells Its Artists to Start Experimenting With AI

Tech companies want you to believe that the chatbots they profit from are the always ready, never judgmental, constantly affirming friend in our pockets. But are the people using them as companions under some kind… Read more: The Tragedy and Ecstasy of AI Companions (with Bridget Todd)

In July, we wrote about the ‘ChatGPT flyer pandemic,’ in which, as you’ve surely seen, businesses everywhere are advertising themselves and their products with AI-generated posters that all look the same. Surf lesson coaches; guitar… Read more: Businesses Go Viral for Making Signs Without AI

Software delivery platform provider Harness Inc. today announced the launch of Agent-Ready Harness Code Repository and AI Code Review, aimed at developer teams adopting artificial intelligence coding agents at an ever-increasing pace. Now that AI… Read more: Harness tackles influx of agent-delivered code with Code Repository and AI Code Review

Catch up on every session from Agentic AI For Finance Virtual Summit, with sessions from the likes of PayPal, American Express, JP Morgan, Visa, and more.

Presented by Gravitee Agent complexity is the insidious shadow lurking inside enterprises right now that needs a light shone on it. That’s because enterprises don’t deploy a single agent and watch it run, they deploy… Read more: Enterprise AI’s real risk isn’t autonomous agents. It’s the complexity between them.

In a disrupted job market people are turning to heritage crafts such as bookbinding, metalwork and boatbuilding It’s a bleak moment for young people entering the workforce for the first time. For decades, a university… Read more: AI-proof? Younger workers desert the digital world for traditional crafts

AI companies have promised us world-shifting technology. But there’s a cost: loud, unsightly datacentres that drain environmental resources. As the government pushes their rapid growth, can local communities do anything to push back? Madeleine Finlay… Read more: Everyone hates datacentres. Do we really need them? – video

Experts say findings mean breast screenings for cancer could also flag cardiovascular problems in women Doctors have discovered a way to use routine mammograms that screen for breast cancer to spot heart disease, the world’s… Read more: AI can detect heart disease in women using mammograms, study suggests

First robot-assisted outlet opens in Liverpool to take on Shein and supermarkets in clothing, shoes and homewares Business live – latest updates The owner of Zara is taking on Primark, Shein and the supermarkets with… Read more: Bots and bargains: Zara owner launches cut-price Lefties in UK to rival Primark

Brevard County deputy sheriff Michael Fultz resigned from the force after an internal investigation detailed extreme cases of alleged sexual misconduct, racism, and abuse, including Fultz’s use of Flock to stalk his ex-girlfriend. News6 in… Read more: Florida ‘Deputy of the Year’ Used Flock to Stalk Ex, Held Gun in Her Mouth, Did a Nazi Salute

Scientists have found a surprising way to potentially switch on an unusual form of magnetism in ruthenium dioxide, a material that normally appears nonmagnetic. When the material was made into an ultrathin film only a… Read more: Scientists switch on a strange new form of magnetism in an ultrathin material

Today’s mysterious gravitational-wave background may preserve clues about how the Universe’s first supermassive black holes formed. Descendants of hypothetical Dark Stars could be responsible for a major portion of the signal, offering a surprising new… Read more: A mysterious cosmic hum may come from 13-billion-year-old dark stars

Ancient teeth and human DNA are revealing a surprising history of insect eating. Modern humans in northern Eurasia appear to have eaten insects only occasionally, while Neanderthals may have consumed them much more regularly. Populations… Read more: Your dislike of eating bugs may be 9,000 years old

Astronomers have captured their clearest image yet of Betelgeuse’s long-suspected companion, potentially ending a search that lasted about 100 years. The surprisingly massive hidden star could help explain Betelgeuse’s changing brightness and may influence its… Read more: “I jumped from my chair” – Astronomers spot Betelgeuse’s hidden companion