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Exotic 'blazar' is part of most extreme double black hole system ever found, crooked jet suggests

A beam of particles speeding away from a monstrous black hole is severely kinked, suggesting that the black hole is actually part of the most extreme binary system known.

Space

Big lake in Quebec suddenly disappears, satellite finds | Space photo of the day for August 1, 2025

The lake was completely drained in the spring of 2025.

Space

Border Czar Homan Says Trump Admin Will 'Wipe Cartels Off The Face Of The Earth': 'They Are Suffering'

Border Czar Tom Homan said cartels are "suffering" as a result of the Trump administration's policies and they will be "wiped off the face of the earth"

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Australia's pink lakes: The remnants of ancient rivers now teeming with microbes that make rosy pigments

Pink lakes in Western Australia get their color from pigments produced by microbes, but climate change and other human threats are killing these tiny organisms.

LiveScience

Marvel Just Quietly Released A Very Promising 'Black Panther' Spinoff

Marvel's new animated anthology on Disney+ will scratch an itch for fans of superheroes and history alike.

Inverse

“Someone said, ‘This is what happens when the chess club kids don’t get their heads flushed down the loo enough!’ I liked that”: When Public Service Broadcasting’s geek chic took them all the way to the Moon

By the time they released The Race For Space, J Willgoose Esq and Wrigglesworth – then still a duo – were ready to accept their prog credentials

Louder

5 must-watch new streaming shows coming in August 2025 to add to your watch list

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‘The great mass of waters killed many thousands’: how earthquakes and tsunamis shook ancient Greece and Rome

The Greek poet Crinagoras of Mytilene (1st century BC–1st century AD) once addressed a little poem to an earthquake. He asked the quake not to destroy his house:

The Conversation

10 Sci-Fi Books That Predicted The Future (Kinda)

Some futures are brighter than others.

The Mary Sue

What's the longest lightning bolt ever recorded?

Lightning is one of the greatest natural forces on our planet. New mapping tools are revealing just how big it is.

LiveScience

SpaceX launches 19 Starlink satellites from California, lands rocket on ship at sea (video)

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 19 Starlink satellites from California's central coast today (July 31), then came back to Earth for a landing on a ship at sea.

Space

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin will launch next space tourism mission on Aug. 3

Blue Origin is targeting Sunday (Aug. 3) for the launch of its next suborbital tourism mission, which will send crypto billionaire Justin Sun and five other people to the final frontier.

Space

Why some underwater earthquakes cause tsunamis – and others, just little ripples

After a massive earthquake off the coast of Kamchatka, a peninsula in the far east of Russia, on July 30 2025, the world watched as the resultant tsunami spread from the epicentre and across the Pacific Ocean at the speed of a jet plane.

The Conversation

See the universe's rarest type of black hole slurp up a star in stunning animation

Astronomers believe they have spotted an elusive intermediate-mass black hole shredding a distant star, and they have re-created the stellar murder in a stunning new animation.

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After 54-year wait, Australia's first attempt at an orbital rocket crashes 14 seconds after liftoff

Eris-1, the first rocket fully built by an Australian company, crashed back to Earth 14 seconds after taking off from a spaceport in Queensland. It was the country's first orbital launch attempt since 1971.

The Guardian - UK

Why did such a powerful earthquake and tsunami cause so little damage?

The 8.8-magnitude quake triggered a global race against time – and showed how much had been learned since 2004

Ideal Home

This down-to-earth wooden kitchen is evidence that Delft tiles are the trend to know about - here's how to recreate the look

It's such a simple way to add character

The Conversation

Roman Empire and the fall of Nero offer possible lessons for Trump about the cost of self-isolation

President Donald Trump’s first term saw a record-high rate of turnover among his Cabinet members and chief advisers. Trump’s second term has, to date, seen far fewer Cabinet departures.

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The Independent UK

Why was the Pacific tsunami smaller than expected? A geologist explains

The magnitude 8.8 earthquake is potentially one of the largest quakes ever recorded

LiveScience

Lightning on Earth is sparked by a powerful chain reaction from outer space, simulations show

A new model may have finally solved where storm clouds get their missing energy.

Space

Nearby super-Earth K2-18 b may be a water-rich ocean planet: 'This has certainly increased the chances of habitability'

The search for life beyond the solar system is heating up. Though biosignatures around super-Earth K2-18b remain unconfirmed, the JWST has found the planet could be a water-rich ocean world.

LiveScience

'Sleeping giant' fault beneath Canada could unleash a major earthquake, research suggests

A new assessment of the enormous Tintina fault suggests it has been slowly accumulating strain over thousands of years.

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s the best monster ever invented’: Noah Hawley on bringing Ridley Scott’s Alien to TV

The writer-director defied expectations to turn the film Fargo into one of the best TV shows of the decade. Now he’s taking on an even bigger franchise. Can lightning strike twice?

The Independent UK

'Over-evacuation' may have prompted traffic problems before tsunami hit Hawaii, officials say

Hawaii officials say the timing of the tsunami warning and evacuation orders following this week's massive earthquake off Russia helped make for severe traffic congestion in some areas

Cinemablend

I’ve Wanted The MCU To Make One Big Change, And The Fantastic Four: First Steps Almost Gets There

Let’s bring things back to earth! Any earth!

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