TUESDAY, 01 JULY 2025, 21:38
Scientist accused months ago of shipping material, described as related to worms, to University of Michigan lab
A Chinese scientist was arrested while arriving in the US at the Detroit airport, the second case in days involving the alleged smuggling of biological material, authorities said on Monday.
The scientist is accused of shipping biological material months ago to staff at a laboratory at...
The self-driving taxi company also said its vehicles were in the wrong place at the wrong time in Los Angeles after protesters set fire to several of the cars there.
Scale AI, an artificial intelligence start-up, has built a business by labeling and culling data to make it easier to use to train A.I. systems.
Critics had claimed that plan announced in May exposed complex of desert etchings to impact of informal mining
Peru’s government has abandoned a plan that reduced the size of a protected area around the country’s ancient Nazca Lines, after criticism the change made them vulnerable to the impact of informal mining operations.
Peru’s culture ministry said on Sunday that it was reinstating with...
The company also introduced artificial intelligence features with its devices.
Over the last decade, Colombia’s ‘city of eternal spring’ has embarked on an ambitious effort to restore greenery to public parks, transit corridors and even high-rises
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The answers to today’s questions
To celebrate ten years of this column, this morning I selected ten puzzles from the Monday Puzzle archives. Here they are again with solutions. Click on the solutions to be taken to the original columns, which have full explanations.
1. Bat and ball
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Shubhanshu Shukla will be first Indian to reach orbit in more than 40 years as country works to join global space race
The first Indian astronaut to visit the International Space Station is due to blast off as part of an effort by the world’s most populous nation to catch up with the US, Russia and China in human space flight missions.
Shubhanshu Shukla, a 39-year-old air force fighter pilot,...
The ROG Xbox Ally will use Game Pass on-the-go – meaning subscribers start off with hundreds of games.
The world’s largest video platform has told content moderators to favor “freedom of expression” over the risk of harm in deciding what to take down.
Happy birthday to us
Forgive me the indulgence of celebrating ten years of this column. Toot toot!
I began posting biweekly brainteasers at the end of May 2015, originally addressing you folk as “guzzlers” – Guardian puzzlers. The cringy coinage didn’t stick, but the column did, and here we are a decade and 260 columns later.
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Shining blood red above the horizon in the UK, the star is 15th brightest in night sky and 15 times mass of the sun
Summer in the UK and similar northern latitudes is the best time of year to catch sight of the zodiacal constellation Scorpius, the scorpion. The constellation contains the beautiful star Antares. Shining blood-red just above the southern horizon, Antares is a prize well worth...
Inquiry warns of rising risk in England and Wales of biased investigations, wrongful convictions and cases collapsing due to missing evidence
The forensic science sector is in a “graveyard spiral”, according to a parliamentary inquiry that has warned of biased criminal investigations, a rising risk of wrongful convictions, and murder and sexual offence cases collapsing due to missing...
Ocean acidification has already crossed a crucial threshold for planetary health, scientists say in unexpected finding
More on this story: The scientists warning the world about ocean acidification – ‘evil twin’ of the climate crisis
The world’s oceans are in worse health than realised, scientists have said today, as they warn that a key measurement shows we are “running out of time” to...
The BBC understands proposals include a two-hour cap on apps and a 22:00 curfew.
My friend Les Squires, who has died aged 76, was a scientific specialist in non-woven fabrics. He developed many materials and fabrics for medical, hygiene, insulation, agricultural and construction uses.
After a long period in research at the chemicals company Johnson & Johnson, in the late 1970s he set up a business called Web Dynamics with a friend, Tim Woodbridge, to make new materials....
Mr. Musk’s Starlink has brought the internet to some of South America’s most remote places. But Bolivia is shunning it, even as many there are desperate for better service.
Hawks, spikes and sonic repellants are among the measures used to deter these birds. Perhaps we should try sharing our planet
At this year’s Cannes film festival, some unexpected hires joined the security detail at luxury hotel the Majestic. They were clad not in kevlar but in deep chestnut plumage, with wingspans up to four feet, talons for toes and meat-ripping ebony beaks. The new recruits...
Canada’s most famous astronaut on his unusual party trick, predictions on extraterrestrial life and favourite space movies
What’s the most chaotic thing that’s ever happened to you in space?
Launch – you go from no speed at all to 17,500 miles an hour in under nine minutes. The chaos is spectacular, the power of it is just wild, the physical vibration and force of it is mind-numbing –...
A designer for Apple, he created software that made it possible to display shapes, images and text on the screen and present a simulated “desktop.”
Psychologist and writer’s appearance on Aporia condemned for helping to normalise ‘dangerous, discredited ideas’
The Harvard psychologist and bestselling author Steven Pinker appeared on the podcast of Aporia, an outlet whose owners advocate for a revival of race science and have spoken of seeking “legitimation by association” by platforming more mainstream figures.
The appearance underlines...