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Three weeks of in-person early voting closed Friday with 34 percent of Georgia's registered voters already counted, and the national early vote has passed the whole of the last midterm.
Oct 31, 2026
After every major earthquake, a prediction resurfaces that appears to have called it. Here is how that trick works, why seismologists say prediction is not currently possible, and what forecasting can actually do.
Aug 12, 2026
A magnitude 7.4 struck western Colombia at 7.34am local time, 110 km beneath Choco. It was felt in 32 departmental capitals, brought down a cathedral tower in Manizales, and the toll is still moving.
Aug 12, 2026
Early voting is running at or above the 2018 record pace, Democrats lead among early voters in states that record party, and Republicans are counting on those who have yet to cast a ballot.
Oct 28, 2026
The honest answer is low but not zero, and it is not evenly spread. Tremors felt in Dubai towers usually come from Iran. The region's own exposure sits in Oman, the eastern UAE and the Red Sea coast.
Aug 12, 2026
Treasury Secretary Bessent confirmed the Busan truce runs two more months, shorter than the six-month extension many had expected, with soybean and rare-earth pledges still lagging. Two more Trump-Xi meetings are pencilled in for Shenzhen and Miami.
Sep 25, 2026
US travel companies face a two-speed outlook as World Cup demand lifts some bookings while Middle East conflict weakens routes, confidence and operating predictability.
Jul 24, 2026
Descent equalisation is drilled into every open water student. Reverse block, where expanding gas cannot escape the middle ear or sinus on ascent, gets a sentence in the manual and is considerably harder to manage.
Sep 5, 2026
Depth is usually protective. But a deep earthquake shakes a far wider area, and what determines whether buildings fall is not magnitude at all. It is ground motion, soil, and how the structure was built.
Aug 12, 2026
Two months of coordinated work unravelled in about 24 hours. Who found the PHP bugs, how the details got out, and what each source says about attacks and breaches.
Oct 22, 2026
Revenue of $22.9 billion and adjusted earnings of $1.69 topped forecasts, but fourth-quarter US volume is set to fall as UPS keeps trading parcels for profit, and supply chain profit dropped sharply.
Oct 27, 2026
Frenzel and mouthfill solve the one problem that stops more beginner freedivers than fitness or fear ever does: equalising the ears under rising pressure.
Dec 5, 2024
On the last day before Americans pick a new Congress, the early vote has passed 2022's total, the president spoke at the Lincoln Memorial and Senate hopefuls made their closing cases.
Nov 2, 2026
A survey that revisits one patch of sky every two months saw a new light appear in a galaxy about 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang, hotter and brighter than local examples.
Oct 18, 2026
Drop, Cover, Hold On is the near-universal instruction, and the exceptions matter. Here is the official guidance from the UAE, Saudi Arabia, the United States and Europe, and where it diverges.
Aug 12, 2026
Most ear injuries in scuba happen shallow, on descent, to divers who waited for pain before they equalised. The technique matters less than the timing, and the timing starts on the surface.
Jun 6, 2023
YouTube Shorts, TikTok, and Instagram Reels pay differently. Here's what creators are really making and why the math doesn't add up for most.
Apr 18, 2024
Sydney researchers who analysed more than 10,000 Australians with depression found a group with seasonal, late-sleeping patterns. The findings are associations, and treatment claims are untested.
Oct 21, 2026
Adjusted earnings of 48 cents topped forecasts and free cash flow turned positive at $1.53 billion, but deliveries fell 2 percent and energy storage came in short of what analysts expected.
Oct 22, 2026
Record profit and the fastest cloud growth in almost five years were not enough, as a $77.3 billion quarter of spending and an earnings miss sent Amazon shares sharply lower in extended trading.
Oct 29, 2026
Krispy Kreme launched an Apple Cider Original Glazed Doughnut on 10 September, and a 18 September report found orchard cider donut season had already peaked early after a warm spring pushed the apple harvest ahead of schedule. These bake, not fry.
Sep 29, 2026
The Nasdaq added 0.82 percent and the S&P 500 0.70 percent after Friday's oil-led slide, while Tesla rose, Meta fell on its financing plan and traders sized up a Fed meeting and Big Tech earnings.
Oct 27, 2026
John Ternus's first earnings report as chief executive brought record iPhone and Services numbers and a $479 billion fiscal year, with a December margin forecast below the 47.9 percent just reported.
Nov 2, 2026
The Vanguard and NXP joint venture inaugurated its first 300mm plant in Tampines on Monday, built in 22 months and aimed at power management, analog and interposer chips rather than leading-edge processors.
Sep 28, 2026
Polls are open across the United States. Here is the early-vote picture, the Senate and House maps, the governor races and the poll-closing clock to watch tonight.
Nov 3, 2026
Shares fell as much as 13.5% after earnings, with ServiceNow, Caterpillar and Sprouts also sinking, while small caps rose as the AI trade took a hit on Thursday.
Oct 29, 2026
Revenue rose 21% to $16.5 billion, yet Intel guided fourth-quarter profit to half the current level and said the PC downturn will last into mid-2027, sending shares down as much as 23%.
Oct 29, 2026
A study in Science dates the Sahara meteorite Teghaza 001 to more than 4.1 billion years, a rare sample of early Martian crust that also shows signs of ancient water.
Oct 30, 2026
Google Cloud hit $30.7 billion, yet a Search slowdown, a $51.4 billion capital bill and a $9.1 billion cash burn sent Alphabet shares sharply lower after the bell.
Oct 28, 2026
Christopher Monroe's team encoded string breaking, the process by which a stretching bond between particles conjures new matter into existence, onto a chain of trapped ions, a phenomenon last seen naturally moments after the Big Bang.
Sep 27, 2026
Cambridge-led researchers say a 15mm hole in a Neanderthal shoulder blade from Shanidar Cave was made by a thrust spear, possibly the earliest such attack known, with signs of earlier care.
Oct 18, 2026
Fourth quarter net sales rose 11.2 percent to $93.9 billion and digitally-enabled sales grew almost 20 percent, with results lifted further by a one-time benefit from tariff refunds the company says it partly passed on to members.
Sep 27, 2026
Tech led Wall Street higher on Wednesday after SpaceX posted its first public-company profit and Super Micro lifted its forecast, with Tesla and Meta still to report after the bell.
Oct 22, 2026
Earth passed between the Sun and Saturn on 4 October, putting the ringed planet at its brightest and closest of 2026. A small telescope shows the rings clearly, which was not true a year ago when they were edge-on.
Oct 5, 2026
After a Friday slide led by the Dow, investors face a Fed meeting priced for a hold, three Big Tech reports, GDP and PCE data, and central bank decisions in Frankfurt and Tokyo.
Oct 26, 2026
A stake Musk's carmaker holds in his rocket company produced more paper profit last quarter than building and selling cars did. On the earnings call, he stopped short of denying a merger.
Aug 3, 2026
PREDIMED tested a Mediterranean diet with added olive oil or nuts against low-fat advice. Diabetes incidence was 6.9 per cent with olive oil against 8.8 per cent on the low-fat arm, and the follow-up trial did considerably better.
Aug 15, 2026
Joel Lapointe spotted an odd circular feature on satellite maps while planning a trip near Lake Marsal in 2024, and the tip led researchers to confirm a 25-kilometre impact structure now named Uhackatik.
Sep 29, 2026
Drift diving turns a dive from a route into a ride. The techniques that make it safe are mostly about the surface and the boat, and the mistake that kills people is trying to fin against water that is stronger than they are.
Sep 5, 2026
A day after the RNC scrapped two red-state rallies in favour of phone events, the president will appear in Salina and Cedar Rapids with both Senate seats rated toss-ups and Election Day on Tuesday.
Oct 30, 2026
Microsoft disclosed Azure revenue in dollars for the first time, $33.17 billion, and guided to faster cloud growth in the fiscal second quarter.
Oct 28, 2026
Sales jumped 26 percent, but a $9.9 billion legal charge, $34.9 billion of quarterly spending and a Class C stock plan explain why the shares sold off by about 7 percent on Thursday.
Oct 23, 2026
Revenue rose 4 percent to $24.2 billion and the backlog hit a record, yet the planemaker admitted the 737 line will not stabilise at 47 jets a month this year and its shares sank.
Oct 28, 2026
Non-oil activity reached 79.4 percent of national output in the first quarter, growing at 4.8 percent while the overall economy grew 3. The gap between those figures is the story.
Aug 6, 2026
Weaker dividend income, higher operating costs and a bigger tax line pushed the Saudi investment house lower in the first half. Each of those pressures applies well beyond one company.
Aug 7, 2026
Kyiv says a three-way meeting is coming, but no date or venue has been named, Moscow is attaching conditions, and the three rounds held earlier this year produced little beyond prisoner swaps.
Oct 26, 2026
The fair that opened to collectors on Wednesday will now admit the public for one evening only, with ID checks and barriers, after a week of student unrest across France.
Oct 23, 2026
A record 34.6 percent operating margin and a $4.8 billion buyback were not enough: weaker fourth-quarter guidance and a lower ad target sent the stock down about 5 percent after the bell.
Oct 21, 2026
A meta-analysis of seventy studies put the increased mortality risk from loneliness at 26 per cent and from living alone at 32 per cent. A WHO commission estimates 871,000 deaths a year. What the numbers mean, and what has been shown to help.
Aug 23, 2026
SAP's strong cloud performance reassured investors, but the bigger enterprise software question is whether AI can deepen customer value without inflating complexity and cost.
Jul 24, 2026
Preliminary operating profit nearly nine times last year's could not lift Seoul's chip stocks, with US yields at 24-year highs and foreign investors selling Samsung for an eighth session.
Oct 8, 2026
Musk told investors the boards acted at shareholder request and that he sits on neither committee. The same call showed AI now supplies more than half of SpaceX revenue.
Oct 21, 2026
The leaves turn from the hills in first and the city temples last. Plan around the colour front rather than a fixed date, go early, and know which routes and rail lines save you the most time.
Sep 16, 2026
The Dow gained about 196 points on a day when the bond market was shut for the holiday, while semiconductors fell and Brent topped $106 after the Riyadh airport strikes.
Oct 13, 2026
The brain is receiving two accounts of the world, from the eyes and the inner ear, and they disagree. Fixing the disagreement fixes the sickness; most remedies just blunt the brain. Ginger is better than its reputation, wristbands are not.
Jun 12, 2024
Mars missions made headlines, but the deeper value lies in research, Earth observation, engineering skills and a private space sector with regional reach.
Jul 28, 2026
Analysis of iron meteorites found their parent bodies were built almost entirely from heat-forged chondrules rather than water-rich dust, pushing selective planet-building back to the Solar System's first million years.
Sep 29, 2026
The deal values the Caribbean resort chain at $6 billion and pairs Royal Caribbean's cruise scale with Sandals' all-inclusive resorts, with the joint venture expected to close in early 2027 under shared leadership.
Sep 27, 2026
Global climate change may be the most significant problem ever faced by humankind. Global climate change, also called global warming or the greenhouse effect can convey mild or gentle warming, however, a rise of just a few degrees in the average temperature of the earth can result in large-scale regional weather patterns. Global warming is
Aug 19, 2023
Consumer prices rose 3.7% from a year earlier, led by gasoline, and Wall Street sold chip and AI names hard while traders raised bets on another Fed rate increase.
Oct 15, 2026
