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11 of the 58 landmarks UNESCO lists as in danger, from the Everglades to Timbuktu

UNESCO keeps a danger list of World Heritage properties facing serious threats, and it currently names 58 of them. The entries range from American wetlands to Saharan mosques, Ukrainian cathedrals and Asian rainforest. Here are eleven of those places, with the reason each one is on the roster. 1. Everglades National Park: Wetland on the […]

By BeckhamLangford

Animals

10 pets and pests that can make your family sick

By BeckhamLangford

Animals

10 bugs and spiders whose bite or sting can turn dangerous

By BeckhamLangford

Microsoft and Nvidia set an Oct. 7 event to show AI that runs on the PC itself

By Dorian Maddox

12 US animals with epic migrations, one 55,000 miles long

By BeckhamLangford

ChatGPT now has 1.2 billion weekly users and a $500-a-month Pro plan

By Dorian Maddox

Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses now give turn-by-turn walking directions

By Cassian Holt

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Science

11 of the 58 landmarks UNESCO lists as in danger, from the Everglades to Timbuktu

By BeckhamLangford

Science

IceCube, Halzen’s Antarctic detector, reported the first high-energy neutrinos from beyond the solar system in 2013

By BeckhamLangford

Science

Francis Halzen, who hunts neutrinos in Antarctic ice, wins the 2026 Nobel in physics

By BeckhamLangford

Science

About 10,750 magnetic stick figure sets sold on Amazon can shed loose magnets

By BeckhamLangford

Technology

Roman harbor concrete healed itself and has lasted 2,000 years in seawater

By Cassian Holt

Technology

A recall pulls 31,000 fire-spray cans that can burst apart in the middle of a fire

By Cassian Holt

Technology

Microsoft admits its September Windows 11 update is breaking backups and blocking some PCs from booting

By Cassian Holt

Military

Declassified video shows the 50-hour hunt for two airmen down in Iran

By Rowan Calder

Military

Two former airmen drew 111 and 78 months for diverting a $1.68 million wire

By Kade Winslow

Military

A postcard offering extra veterans benefits through a ‘Veterans Savings Program’ is a scam, the FTC warns

By Rowan Calder

AI

Microsoft and Nvidia set an Oct. 7 event to show AI that runs on the PC itself

By Dorian Maddox

AI

ChatGPT now has 1.2 billion weekly users and a $500-a-month Pro plan

By Dorian Maddox

AI

Google froze its open-source bug bounty after a flood of automated reports

By Dorian Maddox

AI

Google’s free Gemini tier drops to Flash-Lite on October 9

By Dorian Maddox

Transportation

A seat-post bolt can break on $9,000 Urban Arrow cargo bikes

By Kade Winslow

Transportation

Chicago is putting a battery train on a commuter line that runs 45 to 65 miles between charges

By Kade Winslow

Transportation

A seizing rocker arm broke a rider’s bone, and Triumph recalled 1,560 race bikes

By Kade Winslow

Transportation

11 rapid-transit systems split America’s subway ridership, and New York alone takes 1.2 billion of the annual trips

By Kade Winslow

Transportation

11 legendary long-distance trains you can still ride, including a four-night, 2,775-mile crossing of Canada

By Kade Winslow

Transportation

Riding a rail car to check the tracks has killed 14 workers since 2020

By Kade Winslow

Transportation

A pedestrian’s death on the tracks in Sharon adds to 1,317 rail trespassing cases last year

By Kade Winslow

Transportation

Can-Am recalls 14,014 three-wheelers and motorcycles after their instrument screens go blank

By Kade Winslow

Transportation

Ford recall covers more than 226,000 vehicles; what owners should verify next

By Cassian Holt

Transportation

10 motorcycles insurance data marks as the costliest to crash and the deadliest to ride

By Kade Winslow

Transportation

9 of the tallest mountains in North America

By Kade Winslow

Transportation

Zoox recalled robotaxi software after one vehicle became confused by heavy smoke

By Rowan Calder

Transportation

Federal regulators ordered autonomous-vehicle companies to stop interfering with first responders

By Rowan Calder

Transportation

Uber and Waymo quietly ended their robotaxi partnership in Phoenix

By Rowan Calder

Transportation

Drone-delivery startup Manna plans a Tulsa factory expected to employ 1,000 people

By Rowan Calder

Transportation

Waymo’s driverless taxis are rolling into four more cities, including Las Vegas and Denver

By Rowan Calder

Energy & Climate

U.S. natural gas gross withdrawals hit a record 137 billion cubic feet a day in July

By Everett Sloane

Energy & Climate

A forgotten 30-year forest experiment grew unusually large trees where loggers thinned hardest

By Everett Sloane

Energy & Climate

Heating oil costs are set to jump 31.3% this winter, energy-assistance directors say

By Everett Sloane

Energy & Climate

The Atlantic current that keeps Europe mild has been weakening for two decades

By BeckhamLangford

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