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2 days ago | 
phys.org | James Ashworth |Lisa Lock |Robert Egan
A small dinosaur that once dashed along North American riverbanks has found a new home in London. The new species, named Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae, is the most complete named specimen of its kind and is now on permanent display at the Natural History Museum.
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3 days ago | 
techxplore.com | Mohiuddin Ahmed |Paul Haskell-Dowland |Lisa Lock |Andrew Zinin
In recent days, Iranians experienced a near-complete internet blackout, with local service providers—including mobile services—repeatedly going offline. Iran's government has cited cybersecurity concerns for ordering the shutdown. Shutting off the internet within an entire country is a serious action. It severely limits people's ability to freely communicate and to find reliable information during times of conflict.
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4 days ago | 
medicalxpress.com | Cynthia McCormick Hibbert |Lisa Lock |Andrew Zinin
A powerful heat dome is trapping scorching air and humidity across the Eastern U.S., bringing life‑threatening conditions through midweek. Tens of millions, from New England to the Plains, are under heat advisories or emergencies as daytime highs reach the 90s to low triple digits. Officials warn of increased risks for the elderly, outdoor workers and those without AC. Stephen P.
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4 days ago | 
medicalxpress.com | Lisa Lock |Andrew Zinin
A major new report into the lifecycle of medicines in the U.K. is published today (23 June 2025), which offers fresh insight into how medicines can better meet the needs of the people who develop, prescribe, and take them.
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4 days ago | 
techxplore.com | Arshin Adib-Moghaddam |Lisa Lock |Andrew Zinin
While there's been much negative discussion about AI, including about the possibility that it will take over the world, the public is also being bombarded with positive messages about the technology, and what it can do. This "good AI" myth is a key tool used by tech companies to promote their products. Yet there's evidence that consumers are wary of the presence of AI in some products.
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4 days ago | 
techxplore.com | Goran Calic |Lisa Lock |Andrew Zinin
New partnerships are forming between tech companies and power operators—ones that could reshape decades of misconceptions about nuclear energy. Last year, Meta (Facebook's parent company) put out a call for nuclear proposals, Google agreed to buy new nuclear reactors from Kairos Power, Amazon partnered with Energy Northwest and Dominion Energy to develop nuclear energy and Microsoft committed to a 20-year deal to restart Unit 1 of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant.
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4 days ago | 
medicalxpress.com | Cynthia H. Chuang |Carol Weisman |Lisa Lock |Andrew Zinin
On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization eliminated a nearly 50-year constitutional right to abortion and returned the authority to regulate abortion to the states. The Dobbs ruling, which overturned Roe v. Wade, has vastly reshaped the national abortion landscape. Three years on, many states have severely restricted access to abortion care.
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4 days ago | 
techxplore.com | Andres F. Clarens |Lisa Lock |Andrew Zinin
The U.S. Department of Energy's decision to claw back US$3.7 billion in grants from industrial demonstration projects may create an unexpected opening for American manufacturing. Many of the grant recipients were deploying carbon capture and storage—technologies that are designed to prevent industrial carbon pollution from entering the atmosphere by capturing it and injecting it deep underground.
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4 days ago | 
techxplore.com | Pablo Fernandez |Pablo Fernández |Lisa Lock |Andrew Zinin
Wood is, by far, the most common material used in the U.S. for single-family home construction. But wood construction isn't engineered for long-term durability, and it often underperforms, particularly in the face of increasingly common extreme weather events.
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4 days ago | 
techxplore.com | Lucy Gill-Simmen |Lisa Lock |Andrew Zinin
French philosopher René Descartes crowned human reason in 1637 as the foundation of existence: "Cogito, ergo sum"—"I think, therefore I am." For centuries, our capacity to doubt, question and think has been both our compass and our identity. But what does that mean in an age where machines can "think," generate ideas, write novels, compose symphonies and, increasingly, make decisions?
