Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' could add twice as much to sea levels as feared, study finds
Warm water is reaching deeper beneath Thwaites Glacier than thought, raising the odds it breaks free of the undersea ridge that holds it in place.
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Container ship sinks near Hormuz as attacks on shipping hit their fastest pace of the war
A Singapore-flagged vessel went down after being struck by a projectile, while daily transits through the strait remain a tiny fraction of pre-war traffic and Brent crude holds above $100.
COP17 in Yerevan: world leaders open the first global check-up on nature targets
UN chief António Guterres joined a 'Leaders for Nature' summit in Armenia ahead of the October 19–30 biodiversity conference, where countries will review progress on the 2030 goals.
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What is lung adenocarcinoma? The cancer behind the Pope's surgery, explained
It is the most common form of lung cancer and, caught early, one of the more treatable. Here is what the diagnosis means and why routine check-ups matter.
The leap second is on its way out: world timekeepers move to drop it from May 2027
Meeting in Versailles, the world's metrology body considered ending leap seconds eight years early, to avoid an unprecedented 'negative' second as Earth's spin speeds up.
A jailbroken PS5 can run a 27-billion-parameter AI model at 20 tokens per second
A homebrew project runs llama.cpp on the console's GPU and can serve answers to other devices on a home network. It is unofficial and needs a hacked PS5.
Netflix wins rights to stream the 2030 World Cup in Spain — its first men's World Cup deal
All 104 matches will stream in Spain and Andorra, with one free game per matchday. Viewers in Pakistan, India and elsewhere won't get World Cup coverage on Netflix.
iPhone 18 Pro owners report fading colour around the camera, especially on Burgundy models
Weeks after launch, Reddit threads show lighter, pinkish halos on the camera plateau. Apple has not commented, and the issue echoes last year's Cosmic Orange complaints.
Instagram is testing AI-generated songs you can send in DMs
Write your own lyrics, pick a genre and Instagram turns it into a full song. Meta hasn't confirmed a global launch or which AI model powers it.
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Nobel Prizes 2026: Navi Pillay wins the Peace Prize — here are this year's laureates
The South African jurist was honoured for promoting peace and international law. Canadian poet Anne Carson took literature and IceCube's Francis Halzen won physics.
