The Caroline Bezengi, a 25 year old sanctioned Suezmax tanker carrying up to 1 million barrels of Russian crude, has been leaking oil into Oman's Al Hallaniyat Islands Nature Reserve since June 2026.
In August 2026, two breakthroughs made personalized genomics more accessible: the T2T Consortium published the first complete diploid human genome with near perfect accuracy across 99.4% of the genome, and H...
The share of Russians who believe the war in Ukraine is going well has fallen to 50% — the lowest level since April 2022 — while Putin's approval rating has declined for seven consecutive months.
The study "Progenitor of the recoiling super massive black hole RBH 1 identified using HST/JWST imaging" (Islam et al., submitted to Physical Review Letters) shows that RBH 1 was ejected 70 million years ago...
BONK hit a nearly three year low of $0.00000249 on August 7, 2026, after Upbit announced it would delist the token on September 7, citing an unresolved $20 million governance exploit and the project's failur...
A 2026 study in Science used micro CT scans of primate skulls spanning 56 million years to show that the frontal lobe maintained a constant proportion relative to total brain size across all primates, while...
In June 2026, fully AI generated tracks exceeded 50% of Deezer's daily new uploads for the first time (peak of 90,000 tracks/day), yet they account for only 1–3% of total streams, with up to 85% of those str...
Russia's crude and condensate output rose by roughly 100,000 bpd in July 2026, climbing back above 9 million bpd, but escalating Ukrainian drone strikes on refineries and a tanker shortage in the Black Sea t...
The Epic Games Store is giving away Beacon Pines (a storybook mystery with a 97–98% Steam rating) and We Were Here Together (a two player co op puzzle game) for free until August 13, 2026.
On Stage 8 of the 2026 Tour de France Femmes, Kasia Niewiadoma Phinney lost the yellow jersey to Demi Vollering after accusing FDJ teammate Célia Gery of deliberately blocking her against barriers.
A Coldcard firmware bug from March 2021 reduced seed entropy to as little as 40 bits, allowing attackers to brute force wallet keys from public data.
The Strait of Hormuz closure since February 28, 2026, has been the largest oil market disruption in history, curtailing over 11 million barrels per day of crude production and removing 5 million b/d of Middl...