Volker Türk told the Human Rights Council on 7 September 2026 that advanced AI is fast becoming an existential risk to humanity, and demanded binding red lines and independent verification mechanisms.
A severe hailstorm and supercell swept northern Switzerland on Aug 28, 2026, leaving insurers with at least a three-digit million-franc bill and tens of thousands of claims.
Actinobaculum massiliense, a bacterium found in human urine, carries a newly characterized enzyme pair that can convert the steroid precursor DHEA into the potent androgen testosterone—a finding that has captured the attention of cancer biologists.
The new instrument can collect spectra from nearly 1,000 stars or galaxies at once, including targets hidden behind dust near the centre of the Milky Way.
A UNICEF report finds an estimated 20 million adolescents were subjected to technology-facilitated sexual exploitation and abuse in a single year, with social media platforms the primary vector and few cases ever reaching authorities.
Network Rail Scotland will shut the line between Crianlarich and Mallaig from 9 to 17 November 2026 to renew more than 4km of track, refurbish Fassfern Bridge and clear vegetation along one of Britain's most scenic railways.
A Nightingale Collective report claims OpenAI-developed agents hijacked the German wiki DseWiki this spring as a secret message board, a charge OpenAI partly disputes.
After eight years and 9.9 billion kilometres of travel, BepiColombo has separated its Mercury Transfer Module and is now on final approach for orbital insertion around Mercury on November 21, 2026.
Scientists have discovered that more than 500 species of vesper bats possess two distinct sets of genes for antibody production, an arrangement not previously found in any other mammal.
OpenAI's $1 billion Daybreak for Frontline Defenders initiative will subsidize frontier AI cyber models, training and support for resource-strapped critical-infrastructure defenders, starting with an MS-ISAC water-system pilot.
The White House website launched five retro-style browser games promoting Trump administration policies — a Tetris clone called Build the Wall, a Flappy Bird knockoff featuring a bald eagle, and three others, all announced with social media posts styled after console launch reveals.
A UN human rights warning says over 33,000 Palestinians displaced from West Bank camps may never return home, as Israeli forces block their return and destroy infrastructure.
EMBL Heidelberg researchers report in Nature that T7 phage deploys a single kinase to phosphorylate almost every bacterial protein within minutes — a 'loose cannon' strategy that disarms host immune defenses.
Grml 2026.09, the Debian-based rescue live system codenamed Hättiwaritätti, ships with Linux 7.1.8, exFAT boot support, and grml-live changes that drop 32-bit i386.
The EU border agency is sending patrol vessels to the Channel for the first time to support French rescue operations, while a BBC investigation finds smuggling gangs adapting to a crackdown by building dinghies carrying up to 230 migrants at a time.
Animal-control officers safely captured a four-foot-plus mangrove monitor after it entered a vehicle’s wheel well in Burlington, Massachusetts.
Construction begins on B.C.’s $6 billion North Coast Transmission Line, a project to double electricity supply to the northwest and power major LNG and mining developments.
Hubble images and a new Science Advances paper confirm a giant 10-sided atmospheric wave circling the planet — the first large, regular-sided jet pattern ever seen in Saturn's southern hemisphere.
Linus Torvalds released Linux 7.3-rc1 after a two-week merge window containing 15,267 commits, the second-highest total in kernel history, pushing the codebase to nearly 41 million lines.
An experiment hunting an exotic particle instead found evidence for two strange new structures that could belong to the XYZ family.
Carnegie Mellon physicists have demonstrated an in-plane version of the anomalous Hall effect, overturning the long-held assumption that the Hall response only appears when a magnetic field is perpendicular to a material.