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August 9, 2026

Researchers used a gene gun to make lettuce and tobacco produce cattle and pig myoglobin, the protein that gives meat its red colour and umami flavour

August 9, 2026

Tinian: In 1944, Japanese shore guns hit USS Colorado 22 times off Tinian, killing 43 and wounding 198; the battleship stayed in action and fired back – The

August 9, 2026

Indian man accused of strangling US girlfriend after she planned to end relationship; arrested in Germany

August 9, 2026

‘Situation in Ukraine difficult’: Zelensky in Moscow ally Serbia as Russian strikes kill 4 in Kyiv region

August 9, 2026

US scientists are tagging sharks with ocean sensors; every time they surface, data is sent by satellite to help forecast how strongly hurricanes may intensify

August 9, 2026

South Korea planted more than 10 billion trees after the Korean War, and its forests made a remarkable comeback

August 9, 2026

A moth outbreak has killed off forests across Siberia, now the flammable wood is causing wildfires that humans are unable to contain

August 9, 2026

Florida dumped millions of tyres into the ocean to build a reef. More than 50 years later, it is still cleaning them up

August 9, 2026

Budapest’s low Danube exposed two German soldiers and a DKW military motorcycle; mud mixed with gas oil preserved identity discs after around 80 years

August 9, 2026

In 2007, North Dakota biologists tagged an 87-pound paddlefish; 18 years later, an angler caught the same fish weighing 98 pounds