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After a slow start to Canada’s 2026 fire season, activity picked up by the end of June amid dry, warm conditions and returned closer to the 25-year average. By mid-July, almost 850 fires were actively burning across the country, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre. More than 180 of those were burning in…

Last night, Spain defeated Argentina to win the World Cup. Ordinarily, for those of us with no national connection to either country, the choice of whom to support would have been gloriously trivial. We might have chosen the team that played more beautiful football, the player we most admired or simply the side whose colours…

Some near-Earth objects orbiting in space have a serious identity crisis. They may look like asteroids, but in reality, they could be comets that don’t flaunt their glowing features despite behaving similarly to brighter and more active comets. These enigmatic objects are called “dark comets,” and there may be a lot more of them out…

NASA will commission a team of scientists to begin investigating unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) this fall, the agency announced today. UAPs are simply unidentified flying objects (UFOs) with less of a little-green-alien connotation about them. And that’s reasonable, because things labeled UFOs may not be flying objects at all, but instead optical illusions, image artifacts,…

People who regularly visit museums, theaters, concerts, and movie theaters may be doing more than enjoying themselves. A new study suggests these cultural activities are associated with a younger physiological age, meaning the body may function more like that of a younger person. The findings, published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, add…

A four-legged robot has learned to change the way it runs while navigating forests, staircases and obstacle courses. — seamlessly switching between a steady trot and a faster bounding gait without instructions from a human operator. The 100-pound (45 kilograms) robot, called KAIST HOUND, uses cameras and lidar to scan the ground ahead, then selects…