Wed 23 July 2025: In 2019, a rare and shocking event in the Malaysian peninsula town of Ketereh grabbed international headlines. Nearly 40 girls age 12 to 18 from a religious school had been screaming inconsolably, claiming to have seen a “face of pure evil,” complete with images of blood and gore. Experts believe that the […]
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Wed 23 July 2025: Patients prescribed drugs to help them lose weight may experience a rebound in weight gain after stopping their prescription, according to a study published on Tuesday. The study, published in BMC Medicine, found people lost a significant amount of weight while taking anti-obesity medications (AOMs). However, researchers found a broad trend in associated […]
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Tue 22 July 2025: The kettle is a household staple practically everywhere – how else would we make our hot drinks? But is it okay to re-boil water that’s already in the kettle from last time? While bringing water to a boil disinfects it, you may have heard that boiling water more than once will somehow make […]
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Tue 22 July 2025: Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming how people search online, offering instant answers while siphoning away valuable traffic from leading websites, according to data from SimilarWeb and other sources. AI-driven search results from Google, ChatGPT, and Perplexity now allow users to access information at a glance, reducing the need to click through […]
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Mon 21 July 2025: On 18 July 2025, Axios reported a deeply troubling revelation: the head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, David Barnea, has contacted Indonesia as part of a plan to resettle hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from Gaza. In a meeting last week in Washington, Barnea told White House envoy Steve Witkoff that Israel had approached […]
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Mon 21 July 2025: WhatsApp is introducing an “AI-handoff” tab to the chat filters on its business platform, aimed at improving customer service and simplifying the handling of inquiries needing human attention. WABetaInfo reports that this tool will help businesses using AI responses by identifying conversations that require human intervention. While these AI tools can […]
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Mon 21 July 2025: Report finds extreme climate events linked to price hikes for rice, corn, cocoa, coffee, potatoes and other food items. South Korean cabbage, Australian lettuce, Japanese rice, Brazilian coffee and Ghanaian cocoa are among the many foods that have been hit by price hikes following extreme climate events since 2022, a team […]
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Sat 19 July 2025: The largest known piece of Mars on Earth was sold for $5.3 million at a geological and archaeological auction in New York on Wednesday. The Martian meteorite, named NWA 16788, weighs 25 kilograms (54 pounds) and was discovered in Niger’s Sahara Desert in November 2023, after being blasted from Mars by […]
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Fri 18 July 2025: A new digital age check is being launched to prevent children and young people in the EU from accessing pornography and other age-inappropriate content on the internet. The European Commission is testing a prototype of an age verification app which will initially be rolled out in Denmark, France, Spain, Greece and […]
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Thu 17 July 2025: Chinese researchers have developed 30,000+ artificial intelligence-induced climate mitigation scenarios, according to a study published on Nature Climate Change journal’s July issue. The published study covers the potential of deep learning (DL) merged with integrated assessment models (IAMs), offering a base for handling climate mitigation scenario generation. “IAM based scenarios often face challenges such […]
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