Researchers say cosmic dust may explain how organic matter reached early Earth.Linda Losurdo created cosmic dust from scratch at the University of Sydney.The lab-made dust mimics particles released by dying stars.Cosmic dust contains CHON molecules, the chemical building blocks of life.Scientists debate whether these molecules formed on Earth or arrived from space.Losurdo recreated space conditions using a vacuum, gas mixtures, and high-voltage plasma.The method lets researchers trace how meteorites gained organic material.Experts say the work could help model early life formation on other planets.
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Prices for consumer goods could surge in 2026 as shipping, energy, and raw material costs continue to climb, according to Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply.CIPS said cracks are forming in global supply chains, especially for computers, electrical machinery, and transport equipment.A late-2025 survey showed supply chain disruption concerns at a two-year high.Procurement leaders reported shipping costs as the fastest-rising expense, with many seeing increases above 10%.Rising freight rates from Asia to the US and Europe are already feeding inflation pressure.CIPS warned volatility may become permanent amid geopolitical tensions and trade uncertainty.
West Ham United banned a season-ticket holder after he helped display an oversized protest banner.Joshua Wood received a five-match ban for breaching stadium rules on banner size.The banner urged owners to sell and targeted David Sullivan and Karren Brady.The club said the ban related to safety regulations, not protest content.Wood denied bringing the banner into the stadium and plans to appeal.
Artificial intelligence reduced later breast cancer diagnoses by 12% in a major Swedish screening trial.Researchers studied 100,000 women using AI-supported mammography or standard double reading.The AI system helped radiologists flag high-risk scans and fast-track low-risk cases.The study, published in The Lancet, found higher early cancer detection with AI support.Eighty-one percent of cancers were detected during screening in the AI group.The control group detected 74% of cancers at screening.Aggressive cancer subtypes were 27% lower in the AI-supported group.Lead author Dr Kristina Lång of Lund University urged cautious rollout with close monitoring.Experts said AI should support, not replace, trained radiologists.
Google DeepMind launched AlphaGenome, an AI tool designed to identify genetic drivers of disease.The system predicts how DNA mutations disrupt gene regulation across different tissues.AlphaGenome can analyse up to one million DNA letters simultaneously.Most inherited diseases link to regulatory mutations rather than protein-coding genes.Researchers trained the model on large human and mouse genetics databases.Scientists say it could accelerate cancer research and enable targeted gene therapies.Experts describe AlphaGenome as a major step toward understanding the non-coding genome.
Amazon revealed a new round of global job cuts through an internal email sent in error.The message reached workers at Amazon Web Services.It wrongly said affected staff in the US, Canada, and Costa Rica had already lost their jobs.Senior vice-president Colleen Aubrey signed the draft email.Amazon described the layoffs as “Project Dawn” and linked them to future restructuring.The company cut 14,000 corporate roles in October and continues reducing pandemic-era hiring.Amazon employs about 1.5 million people worldwide and is pushing cost savings and AI adoption.
Scientists launched DinoTracker, an AI app that identifies dinosaurs from fossil footprints with about 90% agreement with human experts.Researchers from University of Edinburgh and Helmholtz-Zentrum trained the system using 2,000 unlabelled footprint silhouettes.The AI groups prints by shared shape features rather than relying on potentially flawed human labels.The team reported the findings in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.Steve Brusatte said the results support long-standing observations of birdlike dinosaur tracks.Other experts caution that footprint shapes may reflect ground conditions rather than true bird ancestry.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission dismissed its lawsuit against the Winklevoss twins’ crypto exchange after investors recovered all assets. Regulators cited the full repayment of Gemini Earn users through the Genesis Global Capital bankruptcy process in 2024. The decision reflects a friendlier crypto approach under Donald Trump, who promoted digital currencies and eased enforcement. The exchange, now called Gemini Space Station, previously faced claims over an illegal lending program frozen in 2022. New York authorities later secured a settlement and banned Gemini lending operations in the state. Gemini debuted strongly on Nasdaq and is valued at $1.14bn, according to…
Coca-Cola is suing Vue after the cinema chain ended a 25-year soft drinks partnership and switched to PepsiCo. Vue operates more than 90 cinemas in the UK and Ireland and 222 sites across eight European countries. The company put its drinks contract out to tender last year and selected PepsiCo in March. Coca-Cola Europacific Partners Great Britain filed legal action to recover alleged unpaid debts after the contract ended. It is understood Coca-Cola also owes money to Vue, though Vue did not pursue legal action. Vue’s founder Tim Richards criticised the move, saying the dispute could have been resolved informally.…
Google’s AI Overviews, which generate summaries at the top of search results and are seen by about 2 billion users each month, cite YouTube more often than any medical website when answering health-related queries, according to new research. The study, conducted by the SEO platform SE Ranking, analysed responses to more than 50,000 healthcare-related searches made in Germany. It found that YouTube accounted for 4.43% of all citations used by AI Overviews, making it the single most referenced source. No hospital network, government health authority or academic medical institution came close to that level of citation. Researchers warned this was…
