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Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. People across the country are heading outdoors to enjoy the last days of summer, but not all of these excursions are going according to plan. One recent incident in New York’s Catskill Mountains offers an excellent example of what not to do while trekking in the woods. In a recent weekly recap of events, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Forest Rangers described an August 29 dispatch to SIide Mountain Wilderness. Located near Woodstock, the popular area is named after Slide Mountain. At 4,200…

new video loaded: Inside Iran After the 12-Day WarBy Declan Walsh, Gelareh Kiazand, Nanna Heitmann, Jon Hazell and Christina Thornell•September 6, 2025Following a 12-day war with Israel in July, which resulted in the deaths of over 1,000 civilians and many of Iran’s top nuclear scientists and officials, a New York Times team was granted access to Tehran. Declan Walsh, a Times international correspondent, explains how the conflict has created a widespread sense of uncertainty and flux in the Iranian capital.

When the chief executive of the Financial Times suggested at a media conference this summer that rival publishers might consider a “Nato for news” alliance to strengthen negotiations with artificial intelligence companies there was a ripple of chuckles from attendees.Yet Jon Slade’s revelation that his website had seen a “pretty sudden and sustained” decline of 25% to 30% in traffic to its articles from readers arriving via internet search engines quickly made clear the serious nature of the threat the AI revolution poses.Queries typed into sites such as Google, which accounts for more than 90% of the search market, have…

It all starts with the coil. Of course it does. This is Davina, and Davina McCall doesn’t do personal by halves. “I loved the coil, but people always used to go, ‘I’m not getting the coil, ugh.’ I always wondered why it wasn’t more popular.” So, it was June 2023 and McCall was getting her preferred method of contraception replaced – on TV, naturally, for a documentary. “I asked my children’s permission. ‘Can Mummy get her coil refitted on television?’ They all rolled their eyes, like: ‘God! Here she goes again.’”Post-fitting, her friend Dame Lesley Regan, a gynaecologist, suggested that…

Mark Volman, the singer and co-founder of the Sixties pop-rock group the Turtles, best known for their 1967 hit “Happy Together,” died Friday, Sept. 5. He was 78. Reps for Volman confirmed his death to Rolling Stone, saying he died in Nashville after a “brief, unexpected illness.” Volman was also battling Lewy body dementia, which he was diagnosed with in 2020. However, he continued to tour and did not publicly reveal his diagnosis until 2023. For much of his career, Volman worked closely with his friend Howard Kaylan, another co-founder of the Turtles and the band’s lead vocalist. After the…

Angus Bell scored a dramatic winning try six minutes after the final hooter as Australia overturned a 21-7 half-time deficit to beat Argentina 28-24 in the Rugby Championship.Juan Cruz Mallia had put Argentina 24-21 up with a penalty in the 79th minute but, after the Wallabies turned down three opportunities to level with their own kick, Bell went over the line.”Full credit to the team, we could have gone for goal there and taken the draw,” said Australia captain Harry Wilson, whose side recovered from 22-5 down to beat South Africa 38-22 last month.”Everyone believed that we could finish the…

In Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere, travel writer Jan Morris described the city’s many faces and “ambivalence”, maintaining that, unlike most other Italian cities, it has “no unmistakable cuisine”. But I had come to Trieste to experience, if not a cuisine, then a culinary tradition which, to me at least, does seem unmistakable: the osmiza scene of the surrounding countryside.An osmiza (or osmize in the plural) is a Slovene term for a smallholding that produces wine in the Karst Plateau, a steep rocky ridge scattered with pine and a patchwork of vineyards that overlooks the Adriatic Sea. Visiting osmize…

A man has died on a Sydney beach after being bitten by a suspected “large shark”, Australia’s New South Wales police have said.In a statement, the police said the man had been pulled out of the morning surf onto the shore at Long Reef Beach – but he “died at the scene”.”Two sections of a surfboard have been recovered and taken for expert examination,” the statement read.Saturday’s incident has resulted in a string of closures in the popular area known as the Northern Beaches.The state police said the emergency services received reports shortly after 10:00am local time on Saturday (00:00…

Pumza FihlaniBBC News in JohannesburgBBCFarmer Kelebogile Mosime uses an AI app that speaks her languageAlthough Africa is home to a huge proportion of the world’s languages – well over a quarter according to some estimates – many are missing when it comes to the development of artificial intelligence (AI).This is both an issue of a lack of investment and readily available data.Most AI tools, such as ChatGPT, used today are trained on English as well as other European and Chinese languages.These have vast quantities of online text to draw from.But as many African languages are mostly spoken rather than written…

Jamie Lee Curtis spoke about “The Lost Bus” at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival.The Oscar winner revealed that she was stunned to learn that mom Janet Leigh had a romantic connection to the real person who inspired the film.Curtis said it was proof that the inspirational film was “born from something much bigger.” Working as a producer on Matthew McConaughey’s new movie, The Lost Bus, led Jamie Lee Curtis to find a stunning connection between the material and her late mother, Janet Leigh, who died in 2004. The Oscar-winning actress revealed Friday night at the film’s world-premiere screening at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival…