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Scientists have discovered a giant new fungus in China that grows up to 20 inches tall and weighs nearly five pounds, making it the largest known of its kind. Dubbed “D-rex,” its evolutionary lineage appears to have emerged shortly after the dinosaurs went extinct, raising intriguing questions about how that ancient catastrophe may have shaped its evolution.
Astronomers have discovered three actively feeding black holes inside a single galaxy more than 12.5 billion light-years away, revealing a remarkable scene from the universe’s infancy. Two of the black holes are separated by just 620 light-years and are expected to eventually merge, while a third lurks farther away. One weighs an astonishing 80 million suns, and another is growing faster than conventional theories predict.
Higgsfield, the AI video and image generation company dabbling across both marketing and entertainment spaces, extended its Series B funding round with new investments from Nvidia and the investment firm TCV. The San Francisco-based company announced the investments as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang visited Kazakhstan on Friday, where much of Higgsfield’s founding team hails from. […]
European governments race to turn defense spending pledges into military capability, boosting companies' order books.
A £3.6bn proposal to stop sewage being discharged into Windermere, England's largest lake, has been unveiled.
Carrefour cut its full-year 2026 financial forecasts, citing worsening social unrest and security conditions in France, weighing on consumer spending.
The plan would eliminate sewage spills into Windermere, blamed for turning the water green.
Videographer Rhys Morgan captured footage of the worlds second largest whale lunge feeding on his drone.
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station photographed a remarkable formation in Madagascar that looks surprisingly similar to the Moon’s bright highlands. Made of anorthosite, a rock abundant on the lunar surface, the formation dates back at least 600 million years and bears the scars of ancient continental collisions.
Russian internet giant Yandex paused operations inside one of its data centers after a drone attack as Ukraine continues to hit the country's infrastructure.
A giant Edin Dzeko shirt is unveiled in Sarajevo to mark the Bosnia striker's retirement from international football.
Pandora is expanding its manufacturing footprint beyond Thailand with a new $150 million Vietnam facility as the Danish jeweler eyes further growth across Asia.
Scientists have identified two new species of large Australian stick insects, including one that lays extraordinary “lidded” eggs never before recorded in the group. The discovery also revealed that a familiar stick insect had been misidentified for decades, showing how much biodiversity may still be hiding in plain sight.
The contest celebrates the resilience of the 2,200 brown bears that live in the preserve on the Alaska Peninsula.
The two pandas, Ping Ping and Fu Shuang, arrived from southwestern China.
Ping Ping and Fu Shuang took off to Atlanta on a FedEx plane, with steamed corn buns, carrots and bamboo to snack on during the flight. Their trip is one of the few concrete things to come out the Xi-Trump summit.
Luke Shargo meets with Caroline Chevet, a volunteer, in Paris.
A massive crater on Mars’ moon Phobos may hide a dense region of compressed material that could reveal whether the moon is a captured asteroid or debris from an ancient impact on Mars. Japan’s upcoming MMX sample return mission could provide the measurements and physical evidence needed to solve the mystery.
Critics have launched a boycott campaign against US cheese giant Tillamook over its new halal labelling.
Iestyn Morgan has set out to make Welsh aquatic life "more accessible" for people to see.
