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iPhone Fold is coming: Five new features for next year’s launch

iPhone Fold is coming: Five new features for next year’s launch

Following years in development and countless rumors, Apple’s first foldable iPhone looks to finally be coming next year. Here are five new features rumored for Apple’s first ever iPhone Fold. ~7.8-inch inner display, 5.5-inch outer display iPad mini pictured Current iPhones all live in the 6-inch screen territory, ranging from the 6.1-inch iPhone 16 to the 6.9-inch iPhone 16 Pro …

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Téa Leoni Ties the Knot With Actor Tim Daly After 11 Years of Dating

Téa Leoni Ties the Knot With Actor Tim Daly After 11 Years of Dating

Téa Leoni & Tim Daly State of Our Union … We’re Married, Baby!!!💍 Published July 14, 2025 12:07 PM PDT | Updated July 14, 2025 1:11 PM PDT Congrats are in order for Téa Leoni — ’cause she just made it official with Tim Daly! The “Madam Secretary” costars are Mr. and Mrs. … TMZ has learned. A source close …

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50 years since astro and cosmonauts shook hands in space • The Register

50 years since astro and cosmonauts shook hands in space • The Register

It is 50 years since the last hurrah of the Apollo program, with a mission that saw the final launch of an Apollo vehicle, and a subsequent docking with a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft in orbit. The mission was the first and only spaceflight of Deke Slayton, one of the original Mercury 7 group of astronauts, who had been disqualified from …

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Scientists Discover Galápagos Tomatoes Evolving Backwards, Bringing Back Ancient Traits Lost Millions of Years

Scientists Discover Galápagos Tomatoes Evolving Backwards, Bringing Back Ancient Traits Lost Millions of Years

In an unexpected discovery, researchers have found that wild tomatoes in the Galápagos Islands seem to be evolving in reverse. This fascinating phenomenon, previously thought to be rare, suggests that evolution isn’t always a straightforward process. The finding, which challenges conventional wisdom, could lead to exciting breakthroughs in genetic research. Tomatoes Turning Back Time on the Galápagos A team of …

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Kākāpō: The chonky parrot that can live almost 100 years

Kākāpō: The chonky parrot that can live almost 100 years

QUICK FACTS Name: Kākāpō (Strigops habroptila), also known as the owl parrot Where it lives: Off the coast of New Zealand on the Codfish, Maud and Little Barrier Islands What it eats: Kākāpō are vegetarians. Their diet varies with the seasons and includes tubers, fruits, seeds, leaf buds, young plant shoots, fungi and moss. The first thing that you’ll notice …

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‘Zombie’ fungus found preserved in amber after 100 million years

‘Zombie’ fungus found preserved in amber after 100 million years

‘Zombie’ fungi that hijack insects are not just a modern forest horror story. A pair of tiny fossils locked in Burmese amber shows that these parasites stalked ants and flies nearly 100 million years ago in what is now Myanmar. The newly described fungi, Paleoophiocordyceps gerontoformicae and Paleoophiocordyceps ironomyiae, sprouted from their long‑dead hosts, just like today’s entomopathogenic relatives. This gruesome strategy …

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Ancient DNA reveals 37,000 years of hidden human infections

Ancient DNA reveals 37,000 years of hidden human infections

Using ancient DNA recovered from prehistoric bones and teeth, scientists have built a 37,000‑year timeline of human infections, stretching from the icy mammoth camps of Siberia to medieval graveyards in Denmark. The new genetic map shows how early microbes began shaping human history. The scientists sequenced remains from 1,313 individuals and found genetic traces of 214 different pathogens. These range …

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Princeton study maps 200,000 years of Human–Neanderthal interbreeding

Princeton study maps 200,000 years of Human–Neanderthal interbreeding

When the first Neanderthal bones were uncovered in 1856, they sparked a flood of questions about these mysterious ancient humans. Were they similar to us or fundamentally different? Did our ancestors cooperate with them, clash with them, or even form relationships? The discovery of the Denisovans, a group closely related to Neanderthals that once lived across parts of Asia and …

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‘Fossil Galaxy’ Hasn’t Changed in 7B Years

‘Fossil Galaxy’ Hasn’t Changed in 7B Years

Astronomers have identified a rare “fossil galaxy” named KiDS J0842+0059, located about 3 billion light-years from Earth, providing a unique window into the early universe. This galaxy, unchanged for roughly 7 billion years, stands out as the most distant relic galaxy detected beyond our local cosmic neighborhood. Fossil galaxies, also known as relic galaxies, are unusual: after an initial period …

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