How airline fees have turned baggage into billions
Sam Gruet Business reporter Getty Images Airlines in the US alone made $7.27bn from check-in…
How orangutans thrive in feast and famine without gaining weight
Humans could learn a thing or two from orangutans when it comes to maintaining a balanced, protein-filled diet. Great apes native to the rainforests of Indonesia and Malaysia, orangutans are marvels of adaptation to the vagaries of food supply in the wild, according to an international team of researchers led by a Rutgers University-New Brunswick…
Built-in Runtime Security for Containers
Security teams struggle with visibility into behaviors inside their running containers. Qualys is today announcing general availability of Container Runtime Security (CRS) to provide industry-leading visibility for running containers using an approach that is container-engine agnostic and layered into the container image. This provides runtime visibility and enforcement in containers through policy-based control of system…
Planet birth photographed for the first time
A team of astronomers has detected for the first time a growing planet outside our solar system, embedded in a cleared gap of a multi-ringed disk of dust and gas. The team, led by University of Arizona astronomer Laird Close and Richelle van Capelleveen, an astronomy graduate student at Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands, discovered…
Help! My therapist is secretly using ChatGPT
It’s my favorite AI story as of late, probably because it captures so well the chaos that can unfold when people actually use AI the way tech companies have all but told them to. As the writer of the story, Laurie Clarke, points out, it’s not a total pipe dream that AI could be therapeutically…
Enceladus’s plumes may be fooling us about life
Organic molecules detected in the watery plumes that spew out from cracks in the surface of Enceladus could be formed through exposure to radiation on Saturn’s icy moon, rather than originating from deep within its sub-surface ocean. The findings, presented during the EPSC-DPS2025 Joint Meeting in Helsinki this week, have repercussions for assessing the habitability…
Traitors' Mollie on why disabled toilet changes can help stoma users
The programme’s runner-up said small changes can make a big difference to those with stoma bags. Source link
Hit the wrong spot and an asteroid returns on a collision course
Selecting the right spot to smash a spacecraft into the surface of a hazardous asteroid to deflect it must be done with great care, according to new research presented at the EPSC-DPS2025 Joint Meeting this week in Helsinki. Slamming into its surface indiscriminately runs the risk of knocking the asteroid through a ‘gravitational keyhole’ that…
Three big things we still don’t know about AI’s energy burden
The problem with finding that number, as we explain in our piece published in May, was that AI companies are the only ones who have it. We pestered Google, OpenAI, and Microsoft, but each company refused to provide its figure. Researchers we spoke to who study AI’s impact on energy grids compared it to trying…
Why the world is watching RFK’s fight with US health agency
AP In fiery Senate testimony this week, US Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr once again set his sights on the nation’s top public health agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). His appearance came days after he suddenly fired the new CDC director, Susan Monarez, provoking a group of senior staff to resign…
Protect Arctic from ‘dangerous’ climate engineering, scientists warn
Mark PoyntingClimate and science reporter, BBC News Getty Images Plans to fight climate change by manipulating the Arctic and Antarctic environment are dangerous, unlikely to work and could distract from the need to ditch fossil fuels, dozens of polar scientists have warned. These polar “geoengineering” techniques aim to cool the planet in unconventional ways, such…
