Topic: Science — Neutral reports only
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[2026-08-18 13:59 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: LG AI Research, SK Telecom and Upstage have advanced to the next stage of South Korea’s government-backed push to develop a homegrown artificial intelligence foundation model, the Science Ministry said Tuesday.
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[2026-08-18 13:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Artificial intelligence is frequently presented as a revolutionary technology that will make the world smaller by breaking down barriers to communication and mutual understanding. Yet many of the systems now in place have inherited some of modern society’s most persistent biases.
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[2026-08-18 12:41 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Three companies have advanced to the next stage of a government-backed project to develop an artificial intelligence service accessible to everyone for free, the Ministry of Science and ICT said Tuesday.
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[2026-08-18 12:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Yonhap) -- Three companies have advanced to the next stage of a government-backed project to develop an artificial intelligence (AI) service accessible to everyone for free, the Ministry of Science and ICT said Tuesday.
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[2026-08-18 12:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Archaeological investigations inside a tomb at the Theban Necropolis, opposite Luxor, have shown how burial rituals in Ancient Egypt altered due to changes in customs, and more practical reasons such as space.
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[2026-08-18 10:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Three out of four Jewish adults in the US say they incorporate Judaism into their daily lives on a regular basis, a new report from Sense Worldwide and released by the Jim Joseph Foundation revealed this month.
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[2026-08-18 09:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks during the inauguration ceremony for the new president of the state-run oil company Petrobras, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado, File)
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[2026-08-18 08:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: ABC Health & Wellbeing
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[2026-08-18 08:34 UTC+10:00] [ENVIRONMENT] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Japan Times
Snippet: Paris – The threat that rising temperatures fueled by climate change pose to the health of older people has been dramatically underestimated, according to a U.S. modelling study published Tuesday.
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[2026-08-18 08:30 UTC+10:00] [Older people] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Study finds older adults could face harmful heat stress at just 1.5C of warming above preindustrial levels
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[2026-08-18 07:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Advocates say funga is the third kingdom of the natural world. (Supplied: Catherine Marciniak)
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[2026-08-18 07:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Does Beijing have time to fully investigate the year’s fourth rocket failure or will launch schedules force rapid returns to service?
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[2026-08-18 07:30 UTC+10:00] [Chang'e] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Does Beijing have time to fully investigate the year’s fourth rocket failure or will launch schedules force rapid returns to service?
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[2026-08-18 07:13 UTC+10:00] [Health] [Factuality: 95]
Source: SBS News
Snippet: Published 18 August 2026 7:13am
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[2026-08-18 05:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: A genetic test conducted privately at a laboratory abroad has raised concerns that the sperm donor whose donation was used to conceive a woman's children may not be a genetic match, the Health Ministry announced on Monday.
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[2026-08-18 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Food / Eating out (Syd)] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Walking down Victoria Avenue in Chatswood is nothing short of torturous when you’re hungry. In the space of five minutes, you’re hit with the sweet smell of frying garlic and sauteed onions; the warmth of toasted cumin; the white-hot tang of Sichuan pepper; the intensity of fresh chilli; the sweet musk of roast duck, and that tantalising cold batter-hits-hot-oil smell of fried chicken.
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[2026-08-18 04:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Paramount Skydance will seek to force the states holding up its merger with Warner Bros. Discovery to pay for the fees and costs associated with the delay, according to a new filing in the antitrust case Monday.
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[2026-08-18 04:00 UTC+10:00] [Learning disability] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Exclusive: Research also finds stark ethnic disparities, and 40% of deaths among group classed as avoidable
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[2026-08-18 03:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: For years, the world has been told a very simple story about Arabs and Israel. Arabs on one side. Israelis on the other. It is always pinned as conflict, division, or suspicion. But recently, I stood in a space that told a very different story.
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[2026-08-18 03:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: US Justice Department filings show that a communications arrangement undertaken on behalf of the Israeli government included $1 million in disclosed work orders for digital content, research, production and communications aimed at audiences in the United States.
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[2026-08-18 03:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Lizards and snakes were commonly eaten by foragers in the Levant across three millennia, using methods passed down the generations, a study has found.
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[2026-08-18 02:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-08-18 02:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Fentanyl pills are displayed at a Drug Enforcement Administration research laboratory on Tuesday, April 29, 2025, in Northern Virginia. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, file)
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[2026-08-18 01:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Institutions have two weeks to audit foreign collaborations and could be required to terminate partnerships to preserve federal funding
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[2026-08-18 01:07 UTC+10:00] [South China Morning Post] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Institutions have two weeks to audit foreign collaborations and could be required to terminate partnerships to preserve federal funding
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[2026-08-18 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Sharks] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: From Aboriginal rock art to colonial encounters, sharks have been a figure of fear and fascination throughout the long human history of this continent
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[2026-08-18 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Road safety] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Harvard study finds traffic fatalities increase by 15% on release dates compared with similar days either side
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[2026-08-18 00:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: An artist impression of the ancient galactic collision, which some researchers have called the Low-Energy-Kraken-Heracles merger. (Supplied: Duncan Forbes/Swinburne University)
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[2026-08-17 22:00 UTC+10:00] [Trump administration] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Grant cancellations at leading research institutions appear to target study of impacts of racism on brain health
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[2026-08-17 21:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The engineered probiotic, named Gift, can sense high blood sugar and automatically release the glucose-lowering hormone GLP-1
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[2026-08-17 21:58 UTC+10:00] [diabetes] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The engineered probiotic, named Gift, can sense high blood sugar and automatically release the glucose-lowering hormone GLP-1
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[2026-08-17 20:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Our mid-June initiation, "How To Profit From the Asymmetric Warfare Boom," identified the leading public and private companies positioned across the drone and counter-drone space.
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[2026-08-17 20:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Taking your mind off a pain or itch may seem the best way to deal with them but a new study suggests that attention can influence the body’s reactions.
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[2026-08-17 19:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: The Department of Science and Technology opens its 2026 Regional Science and Technology Week celebration at the La Marietta Events Place in Odiongan, Romblon. The ribbon cutting ceremony was led by Science and Technology Secretary Renato Solidum and Romblon Governor Trina Alejandra Firmalo-Fabic, who tested some of the projects on exhibit.
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[2026-08-17 16:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Futuristic plane model has a wingspan 1.6 times that of a B-2 Spirit stealth bomber and seats more than world’s largest commercial aircraft
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[2026-08-17 16:44 UTC+10:00] [Chinese Journal of Aerospace Power] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Futuristic plane model has a wingspan 1.6 times that of a B-2 Spirit stealth bomber and seats more than world’s largest commercial aircraft
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[2026-08-17 15:04 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: South Korea's elite science high schools will admit a record number of students next year, expanding opportunities for young science talent at a time when universities and companies are competing for students in fields from artificial intelligence and semiconductors to medicine.
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[2026-08-17 10:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: Turning Yongsan Park into housing would break a national promiseBuilding 20,000 apartments in Yongsan Park could ease Seoul's housing shortage but would require breaking legal and public commitments to preserve the site as green space.
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[2026-08-17 09:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-08-17 08:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Public school enrollment is shrinking across much of the United States, but nowhere faster than West Virginia. An August 2026 study by family location-tracking app iSharing found that the state lost more than 10,500 public school students between 2021 and 2024, a decline of 4.2%, the steepest in the country, according to family location-tracking app iSharing,
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[2026-08-17 03:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent comment about the “Islamic Republic of Britain” is better fodder for political psychologists than political scientists. While political science tries to explain what happens in global politics, political psychology tries to explain why.
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[2026-08-17 00:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-08-17 00:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Approximately 7 per cent of the population is not protected against measles, according to a new study. (Supplied: WA Department of Health)
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[2026-08-17 00:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-08-16 23:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Though Hamas’s popularity has declined among Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya still commands more support than Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, according to a new poll published by the Ramallah-based Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research on Wednesday.
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[2026-08-16 21:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: As a prelude to the Regional Science and Technology Week here in Romblon, the Department of Science and Technology has transferred several of its projects to the town of San Agustin, which includes a Smart Information tourism kiosk and the pilot implementation of E-Turo Digital Learning System, among others. Science and Technology Secretary Renato Solidum, Undersecretary Sancho Mabborang, Romblon Rep.
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[2026-08-16 20:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) is conducting pioneering research to refine artificial intelligence so systems can understand Arab culture and navigate its complex regional dialects.
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[2026-08-16 20:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Scientists from Shenzhen University used data studying teenagers’ responses to facial expressions to identify possible warning signs
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[2026-08-16 20:00 UTC+10:00] [Imagen] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Scientists from Shenzhen University used data studying teenagers’ responses to facial expressions to identify possible warning signs
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[2026-08-16 19:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Survey of 86 households across nine districts found that 80 per cent of homemakers living in such homes reported dizziness and headaches
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