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Tom Cruise’s Digger is a commercial flop – but also the perfect climate film for our time
Tom Cruise’s climate satire Digger has become a major box office failure, pulled from theaters after losing an estimated $245 million, yet offers a starkly honest critique of collective complicity in the climate crisis.
‘We’ll keep doing this if people pay us!’ The cast of TV hit Ghosts on making a movie – and maybe a caveman spinoff
The cast and creators of British sitcom Ghosts are returning for a feature film after the show’s 2023 finale, with production underway on a story centered around supernatural possession at their fictional manor house.
Nursery owner in China jailed for life after hundreds of children poisoned
A Chinese nursery owner and five staff members have been sentenced to prison terms for poisoning over 200 children with lead-contaminated food, with the operator receiving a life sentence.
Trump’s pause on Russia sanctions is ‘reward’ for Putin, Zelenskyy says
Ukrainian President Zelenskyy criticized Trump’s decision to pause sanctions on Russia as a “reward” for Putin, warning it will intensify the war as Moscow launched major strikes on Ukraine’s power infrastructure.
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El Niño: Indonesia fire emissions in 2026 ‘on track’ to match record for this century
Indonesia’s wildfires are producing carbon emissions on pace to match the country’s worst fire season this century in 2015, driven by El Niño conditions creating unusually dry circumstances.
Trump topples the last pillar of Biden’s climate agenda
The Trump administration has repealed Biden’s 2024 coal emissions rule, allowing utilities to operate coal plants without federal carbon restrictions, reversing efforts to phase out the nation’s dirtiest energy source.
Gray whales are starving as the Arctic warms. Will the US protect them?
Gray whale populations along the U.S. West Coast have declined sharply in recent years as Arctic warming reduces their food supply, prompting calls for federal protection under the Endangered Species Act.
‘Immature playground boasting’: Mathematicians uneasy at OpenAI’s latest scalp
OpenAI’s AI model solved a Millennium Prize Problem using 10,000 agents at an estimated $15m cost, alarming mathematicians about the field’s future and their professional prospects.
NASA-backed scientists turn plastic waste into edible cookies
Researchers at Southern Illinois University have engineered yeast to convert plastic waste and agricultural byproducts into edible proteins, vitamins, and other food ingredients, with potential applications ranging from disaster relief to space exploration.
Chemistry textbooks have been getting this wrong for nearly 100 years
An international research team has found that chemistry textbooks have incorrectly described the inductive effect, a fundamental concept in organic chemistry, for nearly a century.
One Mount Etna eruption took weeks. Another happened in hours
A Cornell-led research team analyzed two major Mount Etna eruptions, finding that magma followed dramatically different pathways and ascended at vastly different speeds, with one eruption taking weeks and another occurring within hours.
New Carlo Rovelli book challenges science’s understanding of reality and the universe
Physicist Carlo Rovelli’s new book challenges the traditional scientific quest for ultimate truth, arguing that physics reveals a relational universe rather than an objective reality independent of observation.
This German submarine sank in 1917. It’s still leaking TNT
A German submarine that sank in 1917 carrying explosives is still leaking TNT into the North Sea, according to recent research examining pollution from thousands of historical wrecks in Danish waters.
Crocodiles are famous for finding their way home. These ones didn’t
A new study finds that captive-born saltwater crocodiles do not attempt to return to their breeding facilities after release, unlike wild crocodiles, offering new opportunities for conservation efforts.
A coral reef thought dead for 60 years is teeming with life
A coral reef off Benin’s coast thought dead for over 60 years has been rediscovered alive and thriving, containing multiple coral species and diverse fish populations in a previously undocumented ecosystem.
Plague was killing entire families thousands of years before the Black Death
A new study identifies plague bacteria in remains from 5,500 years ago, revealing the disease was already highly lethal in small hunter-gatherer communities thousands of years before medieval epidemics.