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WorldMay 11, 2026

Hidden Antarctic Threat Could Push Sea Levels Up Faster Than Models Predicted

A study published in Nature Geoscience this week shows that warm, salty water has been quietly intruding beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet through a previously unmapped network of submarine troughs, melting the ice from below at rates models did not anticipate. The lead author warns that current sea-level forecasts for 2100 may be too conservative by 15 to 25 centimeters.

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Tiny Wasp From a Museum Drawer Is Named After David Attenborough on His 100th Birthday

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Hidden Antarctic Threat Could Push Sea Levels Up Faster Than Models Predicted

Tiny Wasp From a Museum Drawer Is Named After David Attenborough on His 100th Birthday

Scientists Send Unhackable Quantum Keys Across 120 Kilometers of Optical Fiber

Google Unleashes Gemini 3.1 Ultra With a 2-Million-Token Brain That Can Watch Movies Whole

Wall Street's IPO Window Swings Wide Open as Q1 2026 Becomes Strongest in Five Years

Hantavirus-Stricken Cruise Ship Finally Docks in Tenerife as 94 Passengers Are Evacuated

Hiker in Norway Discovers 1,500-Year-Old Gold Sword Scabbard Beneath a Fallen Tree

Oxford Physicists Achieve First-Ever 'Quadsqueezing' in Quantum Breakthrough

Star Wars Returns to the Big Screen as 'The Mandalorian and Grogu' Drops Final Trailer

Global Oil Demand Set for Sharpest Quarterly Drop Since the Pandemic, IEA Warns

Scientists Find 'Holy Grail' Gene That May One Day Let Humans Regrow Lost Limbs

Astronomers Detect a Thin Atmosphere Around a Tiny World Beyond Pluto That Should Not Have One

Tiny Pond Microbe Found at Oxford Rewrites a Universal Rule of the Genetic Code

Novo Nordisk Hands OpenAI the Keys to Drug Discovery, Manufacturing and Supply Chains

Microsoft Pledges $10 Billion to Build Out AI and Cybersecurity Backbone in Japan Through 2029

Pentagon Releases First Batch of Declassified UFO Files in Historic Public Disclosure

Hidden World of Coral Reef Microbes Could Power the Next Generation of Medicines

NASA's Psyche Spacecraft Will Slingshot Past Mars on May 15 to Reach a Metal Asteroid

Anthropic Lets Its Claude Agents 'Dream' to Learn From Past Sessions

Nvidia Bets Up to $2.1 Billion on IREN to Build 5 Gigawatts of AI Data Centers

Indian Movie Star Vijay Set to Become Tamil Nadu Chief Minister After Historic Election Win

FDA Set to Decide on At-Home Weekly Injection of Lecanemab for Early Alzheimer's

James Webb Telescope Finds a Massive Early-Universe Galaxy That Refuses to Spin

China Launches Tianzhou-10 Cargo Ship to Restock Tiangong With New Spacesuit and Treadmill