A 75,000-year-old Neanderthal skeleton from Iraqi Kurdistan shows signs of a possible fatal wooden spear wound, which may be one of the earliest known injuries of its kind in a human ancestor.

• Neanderthals
• prehistoric violence
• wooden spears
• +2

An Afghan Hazara teenager who survived a pushback from Greece to Turkey has taken his case to a UN body after a European court rejected it for lack of evidence.

• pushbacks at EU borders
• asylum and migration in Greece
• European Court of Human Rights admissibility
• +1

Megève, the French Alpine resort, offers a range of glamorous hotels for winter skiing and summer stays.

• Megève
• Alpine ski resorts
• luxury hotels
• +2

Young sunflower seedlings exposed to three lights bent toward the dimmest one, showing that plants combine light signals in ways that can distort their sense of direction.

• phototropism
• plant light sensing
• sunflower growth
• +1

A campaign is using stolen Microsoft Entra ID credentials to break into organisations across many sectors through their managed service providers (MSPs).

• Microsoft Entra ID
• credential theft
• managed service providers
• +2

Energy consumption in Germany is expected to fall by almost three percent in 2026, mainly because high energy prices and weak economic activity are making households and businesses cut back.

• energy consumption
• heating oil
• renewable energy
• +2

A strict diet and supervised exercise put more than half of younger adults with type 2 diabetes into remission within six months, according to a small clinical trial.

• type 2 diabetes
• diabetes remission
• very low-calorie diet
• +2

Brazil's COP30 presidency has published a voluntary "deforestation roadmap" to halt and reverse forest loss, but it sits outside the formal UN outcome and makes no new commitments.

• deforestation
• COP30 climate talks
• forest finance
• +1

Companies are spending more on cybersecurity, but many still lack control over the AI tools their employees use.

• AI governance
• shadow AI
• cybersecurity budgets
• +1

Researchers are testing whether large language models can introspect, using artificial "thoughts" injected into the models' neural networks.

• AI introspection
• large language models
• anomaly detection in neural networks
• +2

Brazil has produced a voluntary global "roadmap" for moving away from coal, oil and gas, which it says is "urgent, inevitable and, yet, possible," and which is due to be discussed at the COP31 climate summit in Turkey next week.

• fossil fuel transition
• COP30 and COP31 climate talks
• Belém readiness index
• +2

A UN report warns that climate adaptation funding falls far short of what vulnerable countries need as global warming passes 1.5°C.

• climate adaptation finance
• climate change and health
• COP31 climate negotiations
• +1