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A New UK Porn Ban Sparks Fears of Unprecedented Sex Censorship

Adult content creators and free speech advocates are sounding the alarm over a new law about to take effect in the United Kingdom banning simulated incest and some depictions of oral sex.

Wired · EN

Nintendo’s designers strove for ‘elegance’ when remaking Ocarina of Time

The Ocarina of Time remake on the Switch 2 smashes together the past and present. The game retains much of the original N64 experience while updating it with modern graphics and gameplay that make it feel contemporary. But the mingling of time periods also extends to the development team. While Ocarina's remake was led by […]

The Verge · EN

The First Business Computer Hits 75!

Many of us will have followed the early history of electronic computing, from the urgent necessities of war, to universities, and then on into the wider world. Most of the …read more

Hackaday · EN

PiPedal Grants Guitar Effects, Amp Emulation, and More

Back in the day, if one wanted a particular guitar effect one would purchase an effects pedal or “stomp box”, and even a modest collection of them could be an …read more

Hackaday · EN

Reentry vehicle for 15,000-mph ICBM’s nuclear warhead completes successful flight test

Lockheed Martin has completed another flight test of a next-generation reentry vehicle designed for America’s...

Interesting Engineering · EN

MIT tests flat superconducting magnet designed to simplify next-gen fusion reactors

Thea Energy has partnered with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to test a full-scale...

Interesting Engineering · EN

Unmanned underwater vehicle autonomously hunts down and destroys hidden naval mines

An autonomous underwater vehicle has completed an end-to-end mine countermeasure demonstration, bringing naval forces closer...

Interesting Engineering · EN

New bacteria-based biocomputer can solve complex problems with a fraction of resources

A team of international researchers led by scientists at McGill University has created a biocomputer...

Interesting Engineering · EN

Video: YouTuber’s 3D-printed robot can play entire game of Fetch alone

A YouTuber has unveiled a new AI-powered autonomous robot that can play an entire game...

Interesting Engineering · EN

Sentinel images of the source of the 11 October 2026 landslide and debris flow along the Budhi Gandaki River in Nepal

Sentinel satellite imagery shows that the Budhi Gandaki event was another example of the failure of a steep rock slope that transitioned into a rock avalanche and then a debris flow. Almost a month ago, a less well reported but significant debris flow swept down the Budhi Gandaki river in Nepal, causing extensive damage. I […]

Eos · EN

US prosecutors drop criminal charges against scientist detained over frog embryos

Kseniia Petrova was detained for four months after arrest with research samples, and feared deportation to Russia Federal prosecutors have dropped all criminal charges against a Russian scientist who spent four months in immigration detention after flying into Boston with frog embryos intended for cancer research at Harvard Medical School. Kseniia Petrova, 31, was arrested in March 2025 after returning from a vacation in France, where she had visited a laboratory specializing in cutting extremely thin sections of frog embryos. During her visit, she obtained a package of samples for her researc

Guardian Science · EN

Swapping from dairy to plant-based milk, cheese and yoghurt ‘could lead to micronutrient deficiencies’

Young people and women most at risk, study finds, as researchers call for vegan products to be fortified with iodine in particular Switching from dairy products to plant-based alternatives could lead to deficiencies in vital micronutrients, especially among young people and women, a study has found. Even moving partly to vegan alternatives to milk, cheese and yoghurt could lead to falls in iodine, calcium, riboflavin and vitamin B12 if the substitutes, often based on soya, almonds or oats, are not fortified, scientists said. Continue reading...

Guardian Science · EN

Historians say King Verica persuaded Rome to invade Britain. But could Verica actually have been a queen?

Controversial theory that Verica, who incited Emperor Claudius’s AD43 landing, was a woman could put a new spin on British history if true It was a moment that changed the course of British history: in AD43, Roman troops under the emperor Claudius landed in Kent. Now, an archaeologist has claimed the British ruler who persuaded Claudius to invade was not a king but a queen. The controversial conclusion, made by Dr Miles Russell, the director of archaeological fieldwork at Bournemouth University, could throw new light on Britain’s history. Continue reading...

Guardian Science · EN

‘Ferritin face’: can you really diagnose low iron from a selfie? – podcast

Social media is awash with claims iron deficiency can be identified in the mirror by dark circles, breaking hair and dry skin. But is ‘ferritin face’ real? Madeleine Finlay tells Ian Sample why so many of us struggle to keep our iron levels up, how we can actually diagnose low iron and the best way to correct a deficiency, with help from Hal Drakesmith, a professor of iron biology at Oxford University, and advice from Dr Sue Pavord, a consultant haematologist at Oxford university hospitals and associate senior lecturer in clinical medicine at St Edmund Hall ‘Ferritin face’: are social media cl

Guardian Science · EN

Clearing up a robot’s fuzzy memory

A new system identifies and corrects unreliable object descriptions stored in a robot’s memory, improving the robot’s ability to interact with its environment.

MIT News · EN

Volcanic eruptions and less sunlight made Victorian Era kids sicker

The Industrial Revolution was the main culprit, but the Little Ice Age didn't help. The post Volcanic eruptions and less sunlight made Victorian Era kids sicker appeared first on Popular Science .

Popular Science · EN

3 original methods for measuring the distance to the stars

Out there in space, blazing just a scant 150 million kilometers away lies the brightest and most massive object in our Solar System: the Sun. Shining hundreds of thousands of times as bright in Earth’s skies as the next brightest object, the full Moon, the Sun is unique among Solar System objects for producing its own visible light, rather than only appearing illuminated because of reflected light. However, the thousands upon thousands of stars visible in the night sky — escalating into the millions and billions when we aid our vision with telescopes and cameras — are all also self-luminous, d

Big Think · EN

Cyprus: Island of Snakes, Cats, and Ophiolites

The third-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea exposes an ancient piece of the ocean floor and hosts a clowder of cats.

NASA Breaking News · EN

APOD: 2026 November 5 – Enceladus in Silhouette

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 November 5 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Enceladus in Silhouette […]

NASA Breaking News · EN

2 astronauts will finish upgrading ISS solar arrays during spacewalk today: Watch it live

NASA's Anil Menon and Canada Joshua Kutryk will install the International Space Station's final roll-out solar array during a spacewalk today (Nov. 5). Here's how to watch it live.

Space.com · EN

Little Ice Age cooling in Europe may have raised the risk of rickets

The Industrial Revolution and climate change may have both contributed to vitamin D deficiencies in 18th and 19th century Europe.

Science News · EN

Why so many British pubs are closing down

British pubs are disappearing at an alarming rate. Last year, around eight closed down every week.

Phys.org · EN

Centuries-old cemetery helps scientists link climate shocks to Industrial Revolution disease

During England's Industrial Revolution, when the country's farming-based economy transformed into an industrial one between roughly 1760 and 1840, pollution, harsh working conditions, inadequate housing and limited access to sunlight drove disease. Rickets, in which the growing skeleton fails to properly mineralize, was commonplace among children. Traditionally, urbanization, latitude and socioeconomic status were considered the main drivers. A factor that has largely been overlooked is climate.

Phys.org · EN

Dazed and Confused in Wasilla. WSJ columnist says Alaskans were baffled by the Sullivans

Confusion now reigns in the Wasilla branch office of the Wall Street Journal. “The Beltway refrain has been that Alaska did enough distinguishing to make the ballot clear. That’s a hoot,” Kimberley Strassel hooted Tuesday.

Reporting From Alaska · EN