
Australian Geographic - 1 day 19 hours ago
Australia's earliest Italian immigrants were victims of a fraudulent colonisation scheme in the South Pacific. The post The courage of the contadini appeared first on Australian Geographic .

PBS Newshour - 1 day 20 hours ago
Public health concerns are widening as cyclosporiasis cases surge and a salmonella outbreak across 17 states has many Americans raising concerns about U.S. food safety. Back-to-back cases where people are getting sick from food have put many on edge. William Brangham discussed the concerns with Caitlin Rivers, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...

Retraction Watch - 1 day 21 hours ago
Jason Arday In September 2025, Times Higher Education had a bombshell story in the works: A star sociology professor at the University of Cambridge had allegedly plagiarized parts of his Ph.D. thesis and several journal articles. In one of the articles, the borrowed text appeared in quotes from subjects the professor, Jason Arday, claimed to … Continue reading Exclusive: News outlet killed story on plagiarism allegations after Cambridge prof hired law firm...

Smithsonian - 2 days 12 min ago
By cannibalizing their siblings in the womb or avoiding meat-eating pliosaurs, fearsome carnivores like the megalodon ballooned to proportions that would dwarf any shark alive today...

IEEE Spectrum - 2 days 8 hours ago
India's efforts to grow a globally competitive private space industry are beginning to pay off, with a successful orbital launch by startup Skyroot Aerospace on 18 July. The company's Vikram-1 rocket blasted off from the Indian Space Research Organization's (ISRO) Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, at 12:05pm local time last Saturday, and took roughly 15 minutes to reach an orbit of around 450 kilometers. The success marks the first orbital launch by a private company in India...

Los Angeles Times - 2 days 8 hours ago
I put animal-fat skincare to the test for two weeks to see if it's actually beneficial. Here's what happened to my skin, along with what dermatologists and cosmetic chemists say about the science behind the trend.

Retraction Watch - 2 days 8 hours ago
A leading environmental economics journal is looking into claims that a 2025 study linking national innovation to lower carbon emissions contains data that does not match its source, after an expert in the field requested the paper be retracted. The article appeared in Ecological Economics, the journal for the International Society for Ecological Economics and … Continue reading Journal investigating apparent data mismatch in climate study...

Last Word On Nothing - 2 days 10 hours ago
I’ve been following Liz Dunn’s happiness research for a while, and now she has co-written a new book, Leave the Lights On: How Joyful Decisions Can Save Our Species (Penguin Random House), about how joy could be the missing weapon in our fight against climate change. Here we sit down for a Q&A about her […] The post In Search of Low Carbon Joy appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .

Australian Geographic - 2 days 15 hours ago
Orphaned helmeted honeyeater chicks will be given a lifeline at Zoos Victoria's new Helmeted Honeyeater Hand-raising and Incubation Facility at Healesville Sanctuary. The post New facility for fragile fledglings appeared first on Australian Geographic .