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In 2025, quantum physicist Daniel Oblak and his colleagues published images of mice that made headlines around the world. The researchers put four anaesthetized mice inside a dark chamber and pointed a sensitive camera at them. It picked up a stream of photons emitted from the animals’ skin: a light signal too faint to be seen by the human eye, but visible in the camera images as a ghostly, mouse-shaped glow1.The mice were killed at the end of the experiment, and almost as an afterthought, the team placed the dead animals back into the chamber to image them again. This…

No, the Runnin’ Rebels aren’t really for sale, despite Pastner’s earlier appeal for a $10-12 million buyer Jul 27, 2026 at 8:31 pm ET • 1 min read The UNLV basketball program is, in fact, not for sale. Days after Runnin’ Rebels coach Josh Pastner put a $10-12 million price tag on his squad in widely shared comments to a local TV reporter, he walked back his remarks Monday.”I want to clarify my recent comments regarding support for the UNLV men’s basketball program,” Pastner said in a statement. “The Runnin’ Rebels are not for sale, and my reference to an…

Naga Munchetty is to leave BBC Breakfast after 17 years on the television show to become co-presenter of Radio 5 Live’s breakfast show.The current 5 Live Breakfast hosts, Rachel Burden and Rick Edwards, announced on Tuesday’s programme that they would step down in December.Munchetty, who has presented the station’s weekday mid-morning programme since 2021, and will move to 5 Live Breakfast alongside a new co-host to be recruited in due course, the BBC said.The move comes after reports that Munchetty had faced allegations of bullying on the breakfast TV show. There has been no suggestion her move and the allegations…

The Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, made a surprise appearance for the prosecution on Tuesday in the trial of Sahara Reporters publisher and presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore at the Federal High Court in Abuja. His appearance ended up as an effort to rally against Mr Sowore’s request to subpoena the Director-General of the State Security Service (SSS), Oluwatisin Ajayi, for cross-examination by his team of lawyers. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the SSS brought charges against Mr Sowore over his social media posts from last year calling Mr Tinubu a criminal. Mr Sowore, the…

The Plateau State House of Assembly has received the audited financial statements of the state government and the 17 local government councils for the 2025 fiscal year, with the Speaker commending Governor Caleb Mutfwang for what he described as his “unwavering commitment to the principles of good governance, transparency and accountability.” The documents were presented during plenary on Monday and laid before the House by the Speaker, Naanlong Gapyil. Gapyil confirmed the development on Tuesday in a statement issued by his media aide, Philip Eplong. According to the Speaker, the submission was made by the Office of the Auditor-General for…

After he speaks with Zelensky, Trump will have another important meeting – with Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu. It is the first time the two have met in person since the war on Iran started in late February.Zelensky and Netanyahu are in Washington to attend the funeral of Senator Lindsey Graham, who died this month aged 71.The Ukraine war appeared to coincide with the US-Israel war with Iran at the weekend, when Ukrainian forces targeted an Iranian cargo ship in the Caspian Sea.Kyiv has described Iran as a “direct accomplice to Russian aggression against Ukraine” and Zelensky has said Ukrainian intelligence has…

ToplineProsecutors in Taiwan detained an Nvidia employee as part of an investigation into alleged smuggling of AI servers into China—which were powered by Nvidia’s advanced chips in violation of U.S. export controls—according to multiple reports on Tuesday.Prosecutors in Taiwan detained an Nvidia staffer as part of a probe into smuggling of advances AI chips into China.Getty ImagesKey FactsIn a statement on Tuesday, Keelung District Prosecutors Office identified the suspect by his surname, Chang, and said he was summoned for questioning after investigators searched his residence and workplace last week.The statement didn’t mention Chang’s employer’s name, but Bloomberg and Reuters reported…

It’s well known that a solar storm, depending on its level of intensity, can affect the functioning of electrical grids, navigation systems, or satellite communications. The problem is that it’s unclear what would happen today if the intensity of a storm reached levels like those of the so-called Carrington Event in 1859, one of those extraordinarily rare phenomena that occur only once every thousand years. New research, though, suggests the impact might be even worse than scientists had thought.Solar storms occur when the solar wind—a continuous stream of charged particles emitted by the sun—interacts with Earth’s magnetosphere. During the Carrington…

In a report published earlier this year,, external the UK’s independent adviser on tackling climate change, the Climate Change Committee (CCC), estimated that 92% of existing homes would be at risk of overheating by 2050. Speaking to Matt Chorley on BBC Radio 5 Live, Farron said: “We want to make sure that we’re not being hysterical but we’re recognising that we have more extreme temperatures, more extreme weather.”I want the homes that people live in in the future to be ready for that, that we be climate-ready and prepared.”The party said the cost of its policy to developers would be…

Deep-diving insect larvae in an African lake are forcing scientists to reconsider a popular explanation for why insects are almost entirely absent from the open ocean. Their secret is a remarkably durable system of air sacs that can tolerate far more pressure than researchers expected. Billions of lake fly larvae (Chaoborus edulis), living in Lake Malawi in East Africa, complete an extraordinary vertical migration every day. During daylight hours, the larvae descend more than 200 meters into a deep region of the lake with very little oxygen. This area, often called a dead zone, offers shelter from predators that cannot…