EU fines Google €890m for competition breaches over search and apps
Google has been fined a total of €890m (£760m) by the EU for breaches of online competition laws by its search and app store services.
The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, said Google had broken the Digital Markets Act by giving priority to its own services, such as shopping and hotel deals, in search results over those of its rivals.
June heat wave cost UK economy more than £1bn: Study
Britain's record-breaking June heat wave resulted in some 24 million lost hours of work, costing the economy £1.15 billion ($1.5 billion), according to an estimate released Thursday by the London School of Economics (LSE).
Burnham's plan to collaborate with social media creators
Andy Burnham is a past master at using social media to create a political brand - and it seems he has no plans to let up now that he is prime minister.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is expected to crash into the moon this August - Engadget
Astronomers will be able to observe it from our planet.
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On August 5 at around 2:35 AM ET, the upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket is expected to crash into the moon near the Einstein Crater. As Gizmodo reports, it will likely be observable from certain locations on our planet using ground-based telescopes. It was Bill Gray, the creator of Project Pluto desktop planetarium program, who first determined that the rocket will hit the moon next month after feeding data into his program to predict the rocket's orbit and future path
Florida researchers bring endangered elkhorn coral ashore to protect them
Scientists working to save a coral species from extinction transported 30 pieces from nurseries off the Florida coast to a hatchery on land Wednesday, fearing that warming waters could trigger a mass bleaching event this summer that could wipe them out.
NASA will test SpaceX and Blue Origin Moon landers before the next lunar landing
NASA is preparing for future astronaut landings on the Moon with a major orbital rehearsal planned for 2027. During the Artemis III demonstration mission, crews in space and teams on Earth will practice rendezvous and docking operations between the Orion spacecraft and commercially developed lunar landers.
NASA’s Webb telescope discovers giant planet hiding in one of astronomy’s most famous systems
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered a giant exoplanet hidden inside one of the most closely examined planetary systems in the Milky Way.
The nearby young star Beta Pictoris was already known to have two massive planets, Beta Pictoris b and Beta Pictoris c. Beta Pictoris b was among the first exoplanets ever photographed directly. The newly confirmed Beta Pictoris d raises the system's known planet count to three, making Beta Pictoris only the second planetary system known to contain at least three imaged planets.
Goodbye, cavities? New gel could regrow tooth enamel
A newly developed dental gel may be able to rebuild damaged tooth enamel, potentially creating a new approach to preventing decay and restoring worn teeth.
Scientists at the University of Nottingham's School of Pharmacy and Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering created the material to imitate the biological processes that form enamel naturally. Their findings, published in Nature Communications, suggest the gel could repair enamel that has been weakened by mineral loss or erosion, reinforce enamel that is still healthy, and help protect teeth from future damage.
Newspaper headlines: 'Row over early prison release' and 'Gary's back of the net tax'
Just days after he took office, the Guardian says that Andy Burnham has become "immersed in a deepening political row", external, as he paused plans for some prisoners to be released early. One government official is quoted as saying that there are "no easy choices", adding that "we will hit prison capacity by Christmas" if he doesn't continue with the scheme. But the shadow justice secretary Nick Timothy writes in the Daily Telegraph that "the clock is ticking", external and "victims need certainty".
Gen Z protests led by India’s 'Cockroach party' are testing Modi’s leadership
Rapid Action Force (RAF) personnel fire tear gas shells to disperse supporters of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) during a protest demanding the resignation of India's Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over alleged NEET exam irregularities in New Delhi on July 20, 2026. Indian police fired tear gas and baton-charged protesters in New Delhi on July 20 as they tried to march on parliament to demand the resignation of the education minister over irregularities in major examinations. (Photo by Arun SANKAR / AFP via Getty Images)