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Flesh-eating screwworm may have been detected in South Texas, USDA says
Cassandra Garrison, Heather Schlitz and Tom Polansek, Reuters | Posted June 3 - 5:33 p.m. | Save Story
An infestation of the flesh-eating screwworm parasite may have been detected in South Texas, and a sample is at a federal government laboratory for testing, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Wednesday.
Google must let UK publishers opt out of AI search under new rules
Reuters | Posted June 3 - 1:22 p.m. | Save Story
Britain has imposed new conduct requirements on Google's search services, including allowing publishers to stop their content being used to power the U.S. tech giant's AI features.
AI to double data center power and water consumption by 2030, UN researchers say
Reuters | Updated June 3 - 1:15 p.m. | Save Story
Data centers are expected to consume twice as much power and water by 2030 as they expand to meet the surge in demand from artificial intelligence, U.N. researchers said on Wednesday.
Indonesian parrot, seen once in a century, reappears in mountain forest
Marta Serafinko, Reuters | Posted June 3 - 8:30 a.m. | Save Story
For the past century, the Blue-fronted Lorikeet was one of Indonesia's most elusive birds, known only from a 2014 photographic record and a handful of museum specimens, with a lingering hope that it had not vanished.
UN urges the world to ready for extreme heat risk from El Niño
Olivia Le Poidevin, Reuters | Updated June 2 - 12:30 p.m. | Save Story
The United Nations weather agency forecast on Tuesday a moderate or possibly a strong El Nino that could drive up global temperatures and increase the risk of extreme weather over the coming months.
Experimental pill promises new hope for deadly pancreatic cancer
Lauran Neergaard, Associated Press | Updated June 1 - 11:00 a.m. | Save Story
New research shows a novel pill is helping people with advanced pancreatic cancer live longer..
Pigeons may be navigating with their liver, study suggests
Adithi Ramakrishnan, Associated Press | Updated June 1 - 7:21 a.m. | Save Story
A surprising gut feeling may help pigeons find their way home.
Think it's hot now? The next 5 years will smash records, UN says
Seth Borenstein, Associated Press | Posted May 31 - 8:15 p.m. | Save Story
Earth's average temperatures are likely to surge, passing the international climate threshold set as safe and shatter hottest-year records, according to new United Nations climate projections.
Venice's growing flamingo population finds refuge in recovering wetlands
Colleen Barry, Associated Press | Posted May 31 - 2:33 p.m. | Save Story
Perhaps nothing better illustrates the flamingo's status as a newcomer to the Venetian Lagoon than the fact that the local dialect has no word for them.
Don't throw your phone away for a fuller life. 3 changes can give you more meaning
Madeline Holcombe, CNN | Posted May 31 - 10:32 a.m. | Save Story
At the dawn of emerging technology around internet use and smartphone access, marketers promised that they would reduce the mundane tasks for people and leave room for the things that matter.
In the lowest place on Earth, a sea is rapidly dying — and no one can agree how to save it
Laura Paddison, CNN | Posted May 31 - 7:40 a.m. | Save Story
The Dead Sea sits where Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian land meet and is a place of extremes. It's the lowest point on the planet, around 1,400 feet below sea level.
Meteor over Massachusetts causes explosion reports, sightings from Delaware to Montreal
Associated Press | Updated May 30 - 9:42 p.m. | Save Story
Reports of an explosion from people across New England on Saturday afternoon sent police agencies and others scrambling to understand what caused it.
Blue Origin faces months of delays after rocket explosion damages launch pad
Akash Sriram, Reuters | Updated May 30 - 2:51 p.m. | Save Story
Blue Origin faces a months-long setback after the explosion of a rocket damaged its launch pad, company and industry sources said, scrambling schedules for Amazon satellite launches.
Humanoids dance and thread needles as Japanese robotics developers look to outdo Chinese
Yuri Kageyama, Associated Press | Updated May 30 - 11:17 a.m. | Save Story
Mechanical hands dexterous enough to thread a needle, childlike dancing robots and adult-sized ones to help with deliveries were on display Thursday as the Humanoids Summit Tokyo opened.
Flesh-eating screwworm found within 31 miles of US border, says USDA
Heather Schlitz, Reuters | Posted May 29 - 10:02 p.m. | Save Story
A devastating parasitic fly that eats warm-blooded animals alive and could cause millions of dollars in economic damage to the U.S. economy has been found in a young sheep in Mexico within 31 miles of the U.S. border, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported on Friday.
Blue Origin rocket explodes on the launch pad during an engine-firing test
Marcia Dunn, Associated Press | Posted May 29 - 7:10 a.m. | Save Story
A rocket belonging to Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin exploded during a test at the launch pad Thursday night, shaking nearby homes and briefly painting the sky orange.
Utah auditor launches new website after data center pushback
Daniel Woodruff, KSL | Posted May 28 - 10:33 p.m. | Save Story
A new state website aims to shed light on the Utah entity supporting a controversial proposed data center in Box Elder County.
Anthropic to roll out Claude Mythos in coming weeks, launches Opus 4.8
Zaheer Kachwala, Reuters | Posted May 28 - 9:51 p.m. | Save Story
Anthropic on Thursday said it is launching an upgraded Claude Opus 4.8 model even as it works to release its powerful Mythos model to all customers in the coming weeks.
