Trump's stunning Georgia silence gifts America's'most endangered Democrat' Jon Ossoff a vital lifeline Ugly behind-the-scenes reality of Blake Lively's'paradise' compound: Unpaid workers, a $2MILLION debt... and humiliating new question she and Ryan Reynolds must now face Hidden warning signs you are taking the WRONG dose of Ozempic: Doctor sounds alarm over dangerous mistake... and reveals four lifestyle tweaks to avoid horror side effects'Beloved' college basketball player tragically killed in hit-and-run accident Inside Meryl Streep's very secret relationship with Martin Short: Friends finally reveal how pair bonded through trauma... incredible measures they take to hide the truth... and why there is'no doubt they are in love' Trumpworld's new eyebrow-raising addiction that even health boss RFK Jr admits to using daily Young American women in the crosshairs of dark network: They flirt and flatter, watching every move... then they strike The Chicks' Natalie Maines delivers foul-mouthed Trump rant 23 years after famously slamming George W. Bush Fast-food chain struggles under California's soaring minimum wage as frightened staff abandon crime-ridden locations Middle-aged male school board member faces criminal charges after flirting with teenage girl at public meeting: 'God, you're hot' Michelle Obama says same'anger' that led to husband's presidential victory is fueling Trump's MAGA movement: 'Those folks are drowning' Hero Amazon delivery driver jumps to woman's defense and saved her life during horror hammer attack at her home San Diego mosque shooters hated EVERYONE, according to manifesto being combed by FBI after massacre, as killer teen's $1m home is raided by cops Why Taylor Swift has cut out Travis Kelce's father ahead of wedding: He'cannot be trusted', say insiders... as'f***ed up' Blake Lively drama and preposterous demands leak out An alien invasion might sound like science fiction, but a scientist has now revealed what the terrifying consequences of an encounter might be. Professor Avi Loeb, head of Harvard University's Galileo Project, claims our first encounter with an alien invader won't resemble sci-fi movies like E.T or War of the Worlds. Rather than a biological, flesh and blood alien, Professor Loeb explains that we are more likely to be met by a'technological device guided by AI '. The arrival of such a device would pose a'potential threat to all earthlings', he claims - sparking political, economic, and spiritual chaos around the world. Professor Loeb told the Daily Mail that'the stock market may crash due to the uncertainty about the impact of the encounter on the future of humanity.'

Rubio says US and Europe'belong together' despite tensions Marco Rubio has assured European leaders the US does not plan to abandon the transatlantic alliance, saying its destiny will always be intertwined with the continent's. The US secretary of state told the Munich Security Conference: We do not seek to separate, but to revitalise an old friendship and renew the greatest civilisation in human history. He criticised European immigration, trade and climate policies, but the overall tenor of the closely-watched speech was markedly different to Vice-President JD Vance's at the same event last year, during which he scolded continental leaders. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said she was very much reassured by Rubio's remarks. Rubio, the Trump administration's most senior diplomat, said it was neither our goal nor our wish to end the transatlantic partnership, adding: For us Americans, our home may be in the Western Hemisphere, but we will always be a child of Europe.

How much do you know about friction? Jennifer R. Vail's charming, if sometimes technical, biography of the force showcases its amazing and largely overlooked role in everything from climate change to dark matter, says Karmela Padavic-Callaghan IN 2009, World Aquatics banned a specific type of swimsuit from all international competitions in water sports, ruling that it gave athletes an unfair advantage. The development of this swimsuit included using NASA's testing facilities and sophisticated computer software. Some versions had ultrasonically welded seams instead of traditional stitches. Swimmers who wore the suit broke 23 of the 25 world records set at the Beijing Olympics in 2008.

The head of Google’s DeepMind says artificial intelligence could usher in an era of ‘incredible productivity’ and ‘radical abundance’. But who will it benefit? And why does he wish the tech giants had moved more slowly?

Right now, most big AI labs have a team figuring out ways that rogue AIs might escape supervision, or secretly collude with each other against humans. But there's a more mundane way we could lose control of civilisation: we might simply become obsolete. This wouldn't require any hidden plots – if AI and robotics keep improving, it's what happens by default. Well, AI developers are firmly on track to build better replacements for humans in almost every role we play: not just economically as workers and decision-makers, but culturally as artists and creators, and even socially as friends and romantic companions. What place will humans have when AI can do everything we do, only better?

Our estimates of rural populations have systematically underestimated the actual number of people living in these regions by at least half, researchers have claimed – with potentially huge impacts on global population levels and planning for public services. However, the findings are disputed by demographers, who say any such underestimates are unlikely to alter national or global head counts. Josias Láng-Ritter and his colleagues at Aalto University, Finland, were working to understand the extent to which dam construction projects caused people to be resettled, but while estimating populations, they kept getting vastly different numbers to official statistics. To investigate, they used data on 307 dam projects in 35 countries, including China, Brazil, Australia and Poland, all completed between 1980 and 2010, taking the number of people reported as resettled in each case as the population in that area prior to displacement. They then cross-checked these numbers against five major population datasets that break down areas into a grid of squares and estimate the number of people living in each square to arrive at totals.

Many years ago, when Civilization II was on its way, I'd just started as a writer on the video game magazine Edge. As a fan of the original Civilization, a complex turn-based strategy sim about building vast kingdoms through thousands of years of human history, I was keen to review the sequel and my editor let me. Reader, I became completely addicted. I played the game for two weeks non-stop, leaving many pages of the magazine unwritten. This earned me a very severe written warning.

In 1977, the Ohio State University's Big Ear radio telescope captured a signal from space so strange that scientists are still baffled by it almost 50 years later. For decades, scientists have struggled to find any natural process capable of producing the 72-second burst which prompted astronomer Jerry Ehman to write'WOW!' on the telescope's readout. Now, new analysis of the so-called WOW! signal has revealed that it might have been caused by a hugely powerful laser slamming into Earth. Experts say this was not the first salvo of an alien invasion, but rather the entirely natural product of a rare alignment between a collapsed star and a cloud of cool hydrogen. Unfortunately for alien-hunters, scientists from the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo say this new evidence shows that the WOW! signal is not evidence of life beyond Earth.

In his address to the United States Congress on July 24, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu brought up his vision of a "new Gaza" to emerge once his country's brutal aggression against the strip ends. He spoke of a "future of security, prosperity and peace". In May, his office released a detailed outline called Gaza 2035, which featured bold plans for "rebuilding from nothing", "modern designs", "ports, pipelines, and railways". US President Joe Biden has not commented on Netanyahu's vision but he did allude to a "major reconstruction plan for Gaza" in his speech laying out a three-step ceasefire plan on May 31. This was followed by the June 10 UN Security Council resolution supporting his initiative.

Despite what UFO enthusiasts might claim, virtually every scientist agrees that humanity is yet to receive a message let alone a visitor from beyond our planet. But in the vast scale of the universe – containing an estimated 2 trillion galaxies – scientists say there is a '100 per cent chance' that there is life somewhere apart from Earth. This raises a intriguing question: If alien life truly is common in the Universe, why haven't we heard from them? From the'Dark Forest Hypothesis' to the inevitability of nuclear war, the answer to this question may offer a chilling glimpse into the future of our own civilisation. Professor Frederick Walter, a galactic astronomer from Stony Brook University says: 'Life is a biochemical process, it's going to happen, but as you go further down the chain things become more uncertain.'