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Atypical expenditure' document suggests utility's costs over 12 months outstripped the 130m it paid in fines Thames Water spent at least 136m on the effort to secure emergency funding over 12 months, according to a leaked document that suggests costs outstripped the 130m the struggling utility paid in fines. The law firms Linklaters and Akin Gump received 45m and 26m respectively during the financial year to March 2025, and another 10 firms were paid more than 1m, according to a document...
In July and August two spectacular meteor showers will arrive in quick succession. Here's everything you need to know to watch them and the other major showers that will appear in 2025.
Retraction Watch - 1 hour 25 min agoOur list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 500. There are more than 60,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database which is now part of Crossref. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains more than 300 titles. And have you seen our leaderboard of authors with the most retractions lately … Continue reading Weekend reads: Western publishing at a breaking point'; NIH to cap publisher fees; sleuths say their work is being weaponized'...
Mother Jones - 1 hour 25 min agoThis story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. First came the drought. After three years without significant rain, northern New Mexico's dense forests of spruce, fir and ponderosa pines were baked to a crisp. Then came the spark a prescribed burn lit by the US Forest Service […]...
Flood-damaged homes lining the river in Chiva, near Valencia, Spain, in November. A flood alert system was in place but was not immediately activated.
Part of a fossilized vertebrae from what is thought to be a herbivorous dinosaur found deep under the parking lot of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.
Farmers are seeking ways to fend off birds who are stirring up soil in flooded paddy fields in Ferrara province An unusual bird is ravaging crops and infuriating farmers in north-eastern Italy: the flamingo. Flamingos are relatively recent arrivals in the area, and have settled into the flooded fields that produce rice for risotto in Ferrara province, between Venice and Ravenna. Continue reading...
Levels even lower than in severe drought year of 2022, data shows, with water firms urged to be proactive' England's reservoirs are at their lowest levels for a decade, new data reveals, as experts urge water companies to immediately put hosepipe bans in place. In June, reservoirs across the country were 76% full, which is below their level in the severe drought year of 2022 when they were at 77% capacity at this time in the summer. Continue reading...
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Lord of the Rings filmmaker Sir Peter Jackson, who is funding the de-extinction' project, says the successful reintroduction of the giant mao bird would be a dream...
Popular chatbots serve as poor replacements for human therapists, but study authors call for nuance.
Countries are eager to use AI to automate some government processes, but this risks eroding citizens' trust and feelings of democratic control because AI mistakes can ruin their lives...
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Discover Magazine - 13 hours 25 min agoLearn about the new technique being used to study cracks that have formed on Antarctica's unstable Doomsday Glacier.
Ben Jealous, executive director of the Sierra Club, at a climate rally in Washington in 2023. He is now on leave.
Discover Magazine - 13 hours 55 min agoLearn more about Te K'ab Chaak, the first Maya king from Caracol whose tomb is rewriting the history of Maya-Mesoamerica relations.
The Boy Genius Report - 13 hours 55 min agoScientists have managed to find a rare insect after it supposedly went extinct more than two decades ago. The Behningia baei, a species of mayfly … The post Scientists just rediscovered a rare insect we thought went extinct 20 years ago appeared first on BGR .
The IceCube neutrino detector has allowed researchers to resolve a debate about what types of particles make up ultra-high-energy cosmic rays but much remains unknown about these rare events...
Discover Magazine - 15 hours 20 min agoLearn more about our complicated relationship with sugar and how low sugar may be better than no sugar.
Claustrophobic drivers, beware. The post Man cuts Fiat down to 19.7-inch, two-wheel ride appeared first on Popular Science .
Popular Mechanics - 15 hours 41 min agoFrequent nightmares can create a genuine risk for premature aging and an early death, according to new research.
Retraction Watch - 15 hours 59 min agoThe editors of Scientific Reports have retracted an article on burnout because the statistical analysis of its main finding was "unsound." But the authors dispute the editors' take on the statistics and claim a mistake in the paper triggered an unfair review. For the paper, published in November, the authors measured concentrations of cortisol in … Continue reading Retraction for unsound' analysis was disproportionate and discouraging,' author says...
The 4,500-year-old remains were uncovered by a crew preparing to build a power line in Germany. The post Neolithic moms decorated baby carriers with dog teeth appeared first on Popular Science .
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