Environment Climate Change Global Warming Why is this infamous iceberg turning blue? Iceberg A-23A is bigger than New York City, but its days are numbered. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Iceberg A-23A is looking a little blue these days. In late December 2025, NASA and NOAA's Terra satellite spotted the massive iceberg covered with blue meltwater .

Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Biden FTC Chair Lina Khan are facing backlash after regulatory opposition helped derail Amazon’s bid for iRobot, resulting in the Roomba maker falling into Chinese ownership.

America's new dietary guidelines ignore decades of scientific research An emphasis on fruit, vegetables, and whole foods is welcome--but it's wrong to suggest steak and beef tallow should be prominent. The new year has barely begun, but the first days of 2026 have brought big news for health. On Monday, the US's federal health agency upended its recommendations for routine childhood vaccinations--a move that health associations worry puts children at unnecessary risk of preventable disease. There was more news from the federal government on Wednesday, when health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his colleagues at the Departments of Health and Human Services and Agriculture unveiled new dietary guidelines for Americans . And they are causing a bit of a stir. RFK Jr's plan to improve America's diet is missing the point That's partly because they recommend products like red meat, butter, and beef tallow--foods that have been linked to cardiovascular disease, and that nutrition experts have been recommending people in their diets.

'Nearly three-quarters of posts collected and analyzed by a researcher were requests for nonconsensual images of real women or minors.' 'Nearly three-quarters of posts collected and analyzed by a researcher were requests for nonconsensual images of real women or minors.' Sample of roughly 500 posts shows how frequently people are creating sexualized images with Elon Musk's AI chatbot Thu 8 Jan 2026 12.00 ESTLast modified on Thu 8 Jan 2026 12.01 EST New research that samples X users prompting Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok demonstrates how frequently people are creating sexualized images with it. Nearly three-quarters of posts collected and analyzed by a PhD researcher at Dublin's Trinity College were requests for nonconsensual images of real women or minors with items of clothing removed or added. The posts offer a new level of detail on how the images are generated and shared on X, with users coaching one another on prompts; suggesting iterations on Grok's presentations of women in lingerie or swimsuits, or with areas of their body covered in semen; and asking Grok to remove outer clothing in replies to posts containing self-portraits by female users. Among hundreds of posts identified by Nana Nwachukwu as direct, nonconsensual requests for Grok to remove or replace clothing, dozens reviewed by the Guardian show users posting pictures of women including celebrities, models, stock photos and women who are not public figures posing in snapshots.

Online detectives are inaccurately claiming to have identified the federal agent who shot and killed a 37-year-old woman in Minnesota based on AI-manipulated images. Federal agents push through a crowd of bystanders as they leave the scene where a woman was fatally shot by an agent in Minneapolis, Minn., on January 7, 2026. In the hours after a masked federal agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis, social media users have been sharing AI-altered images they falsely claim "unmask" the officer, revealing their real identity. The agent was later identified by Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin as an Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officer. The shooting occurred on Wednesday morning, and social media footage of the scene shows two masked federal agents approaching an SUV parked in the middle of the road in a suburb south of downtown Minneapolis.

Campaigners have accused the government of dragging its heels on implementing a law which would make it illegal to create non-consensual sexualised deepfakes. It comes amid a backlash against images created using Elon Musk's AI Grok to digitally remove clothing - with one woman telling the BBC more than 100 sexualised images have been created of her. It is currently illegal to share deepfakes of adults in the UK, but new legislation that would make it a criminal offence to create or request them is still not in force despite passing in June 2025 . But it is unclear whether all of the unclothing images created by Grok would fall foul of this law. The BBC has contacted the government for comment.

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Astronomers have spotted an asteroid the size of nearly eight football fields, with the help of the largest digital camera in the world and a new space observatory. Asteroid 2025 MN45 measures about a half mile in diameter and is the fastest spinning asteroid of its size ever recorded. The team from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and United States Department of Energy (DOE) presented their findings in . To spot this asteroid, the team used the cutting-edge Vera C. Rubin Observatory .

The Download: mimicking pregnancy's first moments in a lab, and AI parameters explained Plus: Google and Character.AI have settled a lawsuit linking their AI to the death of a teenager At first glance, it looks like the start of a human pregnancy: A ball-shaped embryo presses into the lining of the uterus then grips tight, burrowing in as the first tendrils of a future placenta appear. This is implantation--the moment that pregnancy officially begins. Only none of it is happening inside a body. These images were captured in a Beijing laboratory, inside a microfluidic chip, as scientists watched the scene unfold. In three recent papers published by Cell Press, scientists report what they call the most accurate efforts yet to mimic the first moments of pregnancy in the lab. They've taken human embryos from IVF centers and let these merge with "organoids" made of endometrial cells, which form the lining of the uterus.

Could Ukraine hold a presidential election right now? Will Europe use frozen Russian assets to fund war? How can Ukraine rebuild China ties? 'Ukraine is running out of men, money and time' Russian mortality rates on the front lines are rising to levels that cannot be sustained by the current method of voluntary recruitment, Ukrainian figures suggest. "In December, 35,000 occupiers were eliminated - and this has been confirmed with video footage," said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a Monday evening address.

Things to Do in L.A. Tap to enable a layout that focuses on the article. A renter drives a U-Haul in Mission Valley in 2023. This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here . Anecdotal data suggest there is also an exodus of regular people who load their belongings into rental trucks and lug them to another state.