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WhatsApp Introduces Ads in Its App

16 June at 15:00 PM, via New York Times

They will appear in only one part of the Meta-owned messaging service, it said. The move is potentially lucrative, while raising questions about user privacy.

Starwatch: Mars and Regulus will make for an eye-catching pair

16 June at 07:00 AM, via The Guardian

Celestial objects will be separated by less than a degree and the colour difference between them will be striking

Look into the western sky this week to see an eye-catching conjunction between Mars and Regulus, the brightest star in the constellation of Leo, the lion. The chart shows the view from London at 2300 BST on 16 June 2025.

The pair of celestial objects will be separated by less than a...

UK-wide drug trial hailed as a ‘milestone’ in leukaemia treatment

16 June at 06:00 AM, via The Guardian

Combination of two targeted drugs found to produce better outcomes and was more tolerable than chemotherapy

A groundbreaking UK-wide trial has found a chemotherapy-free approach to treating leukaemia that may lead to better outcomes for some patients, with the results being hailed as a “milestone”.

Led by researchers from Leeds, results from the Flair trial, which took place at 96 cancer...

‘People didn’t like women in space’: how Sally Ride made history and paid the price

15 June at 11:18 AM, via The Guardian

Ride was the first US woman in space – but a National Geographic documentary looks at how she was forced to hide her queerness to succeed

A week before Sally – a documentary about the first American woman to fly into space – landed at the Sundance film festival in January, Nasa employees received emails informing them how Donald Trump’s diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) rollbacks...

Astronaut missions postponed amid concerns about leaks at International Space Station

13 June at 17:50 PM, via The Guardian

Chartered spaceflight for India, Poland and Hungary’s first astronauts in decades delayed indefinitely

A chartered spaceflight for India, Poland and Hungary’s first astronauts in decades has been delayed indefinitely because of leak concerns at the International Space Station.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) said Thursday that it had postponed the Axiom Mission 4 to the...

A Trick of the Mind by Daniel Yon review – explaining psychology’s most important theory

13 June at 08:00 AM, via The Guardian

An immensely readable dive into the ‘predictive processing’ hypothesis, our best guess as to how the mind really works

The process of perception feels quite passive. We open our eyes and light floods in; the world is just there, waiting to be seen. But in reality there is an active element that we don’t notice. Our brains are always “filling in” our perceptual experience, supplementing...

Crafty curlews: birds eavesdrop on prairie dog calls to evade predators

12 June at 19:50 PM, via The Guardian

Vulnerable grassland birds listen in to the social rodents warning of the many threats both species face

Prairie dogs bark to alert each other to the presence of predators, with different cries depending on whether the threat is airborne or approaching by land.

But their warnings also seem to help a vulnerable grassland bird.

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