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A “For Sale” sign outside a house in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images Sales of previously owned homes rose 2% in July compared with June to 4.01 million units, on a seasonally adjusted, annualized basis, according to the National Association of realtors. Housing analysts had …

Rapid loss of Antarctic ice may be climate tipping point, scientists say  Reuters Antarctica’s changing threat landscape underscores the need for coordinated action  EurekAlert! Emerging evidence of abrupt changes in the Antarctic environment  Nature Tracking the climate-driven shift in Antarctic plankton from space  European Space Agency Antarctic climate shifts threaten ‘catastrophic’ impacts globally  WV News Source link

“Quiet cracking” is the new workplace phenomenon sweeping offices. As AI looms over jobs and promotions stall, workers’ mental health is quietly fraying. For employers, it has resulted in a staggering $438 billion loss in global productivity in the past year alone. But not all hope is lost. A career expert tells Fortune there are ways for managers and employees …

Workers are down in the dumps about a lack of career growth opportunities and emptying offices as companies slash staffers to make way for AI, all while being put under constant pressure to do more with less.  Scared of speaking out and putting their neck on the line in a dire job climate, staff are silently but massively disengaging with …

Harmful gases can pose even more serious health concerns than respiratory problems. Researchers have found a link between exposure to ultrafine particles and aggressive brain tumors. What’s happening? According to Euronews, a study by researchers from the Danish Cancer Institute indicates that long-term exposure to fine particulate matter, elemental carbon, nitrogen dioxide, and ultrafine particles contributes to the development of …

Black holes form when massive stars exhaust their nuclear fuel and collapse under their own gravity. This collapse compresses the core into a singularity, an infinitely dense point surrounded by the event horizon. The three main types are stellar-mass black holes, which weigh between 1 and 100 times the Sun’s mass and form after a supernova; intermediate-mass black holes, with …

There’s been no agreement on a new contract between the Commanders and wide receiver Terry McLaurin, which means that McLaurin continues to be an observer at the team’s practices with the start of the regular season a little more than three weeks away. McLaurin has been around the team for meetings and other off-field activities, but offensive coordinator Kliff Kingsbury …

A recent study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B confirms that dolphins and orcas have reached a point in their evolutionary path where returning to land is no longer biologically possible. Led by Bruna Farina, a doctoral researcher at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, the study examined over 5,600 species of mammals and found that full-time marine …

I’m in San Francisco,” Ike Barinholtz says via Zoom from his hotel room, then spins his laptop around to prove it. “See? There’s Alcatraz.” It’s now official, though paparazzi photos have all but confirmed it: Barinholtz is in town filming Artificial, Luca Guadagnino’s fact-based account of the behind-the-scenes turmoil that saw OpenAI CEO Sam Altman fired and quickly rehired in …

Analyst: Clairton Coke Works explosion could mark a turning point for the Mon Valley  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Officials: 2 dead, 10 injured after explosions at US Steel Clairton Coke plant  WTAE Second worker found dead after explosion at U.S. Steel Clairton Coke Works  90.5 WESA What we know about U.S. Steel plant’s safety record after deadly explosion  The Washington Post Fatal U.S. Steel Plant Explosion …