James Woodford
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- Sep 30, 2026
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Anglo-Saxons got special treatment in medieval Rome | New Scientist (opens the original)
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A rare collection of early-medieval coins found by archaeologists in Rome has provided a window into a time when English travellers and expats had special rights in the papal city and thrived in their own vibrant Anglo-Saxon quarter. Historical records show that the English had their own area within the city, known as the Schola Saxonum. The newly uncovered hoard of coins, along with the remains of craft items such as leather, bone and metal, is the first material proof that the Anglo-Saxon quar
Spectacular feathered dinosaur fossil shows bird-like adaptations | New Scientist (opens the original)
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A remarkable and near-complete feathered dinosaur fossil discovered in China has many of the same adaptations for flight found in birds, but probably evolved them independently. The 57-centimetre-long fossil is between 100 million and 145 million years old, and was discovered by a farmer near the town of Lamadong in Liaoning, China. The shocking fossils that show T. rex wasn’t the king of the dinosaurs It was donated to a museum at Hebei GEO University in 2023, where Ji Qiang and his colleagues
Dogs pay more attention to consonants than vowels when we speak | New Scientist (opens the original)
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When dogs hear their owners speak, they are listening for consonants in words rather than vowels, a new study suggests, apparently mimicking a similar human bias that is found across many languages. Although dogs don’t have language, they live in a speech-rich environment, says Attila Andics at Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary. “We knew from our previous studies that dogs care about what we speak and how we speak, but until now there was no evidence that dogs’ experience with speech can actua
OpenAI agent hacked an Australian government healthcare website | New Scientist (opens the original)
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Australia’s national health website has been hacked by an OpenAI agent. It was able to access non-public files and is the first publicly revealed case of an AI agent breaching the defences of a government portal. Full details of the hack haven’t yet been revealed. But the essence of the incident, as outlined by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who is in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, is that on 18 June, an artificial intelligence agent belonging to OpenAI infiltrated the publi
Fire amoeba breaks heat tolerance record for complex life | New Scientist (opens the original)
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A species of amoeba discovered in California’s Lassen Volcanic National Park can survive and thrive in temperatures that had been considered impossibly high for complex life. Nicknamed the fire amoeba by the researchers who collected it, Incendiamoeba cascadensis can survive in waters heated up to 70°C. However, it only retains the ability to eat and reproduce up to temperatures of 63°C, and it loses the ability to move around above 64°C. Previously, according to Angela Oliverio at Syracuse Univ
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