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<p>This word for outdoing or outshining others originated in the manosphere, but is now thoroughly mainstream. Why is it so popular – and should we be worried about slang that arises from toxic subcultures?</p><p>Until recently, if someone had said “mog” to me, I probably would have assumed they were talking about the children’s book cat created by the late great Judith Kerr. If asked about “mogging” or being “mogged,” I would have been completely baffled. But for many members of gen Z and gen Alpha (or anyone who is just a bit too online), the slang term, which means to outdo or outshine others, is everywhere.</p><p>Mogging’s origins are in the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2025/oct/21/why-the-manosphere-clicked-for-young-men-a-visual-deep-dive">manosphere</a>, where it began as a verb derived from the acronym “Amog” (alpha male of the group). In misogynistic forums in the 2010s, to “mog” came to mean to outdo someone in terms of sexual desirability. Mogging has been adopted by “<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/feb/15/from-bone-smashing-to-chin-extensions-how-looksmaxxing-is-reshaping-young-mens-faces">looksmaxxing</a>” influencers such as Braden Peters, known online as Clavicular, who encourage men to try to alter their looks – sometimes in extreme ways – to increase their “sexual market value”. Such an influencer might talk of “frame mogging” another person in a photo or video – a variation on mogging that specifically refers to being more muscular.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/06/mogging-is-suddenly-everywhere-is-that-a-problem">Continue reading...</a>
Repairs along one of England's highest mountains are under way with chiefs describing it as the "first significant work" there since the 1980s.
Swirls Path, at Helvellyn, in the Lake District, is used by large numbers of walkers drawn by its views over Thirlmere.
The Fix the Fells conservation group, which is carrying out the work, warns the area either side of the path is being eroded with vegetation damaged.
In the first stage of a three-year project, rangers are pulling out the old path and replacing sections with wider stone pitching.
Alongside materials recovered from the site that are to be reused, more than 100 tonnes of stone were delivered by helicopter earlier this year in preparation.
Landscaping will also be used as a way to encourage people not to stray from the path.
Fix the Fells' partnership manager Isabel Berry said the route's "sloping, slippery surface is currently difficult to walk on" leading people to use the areas at either side.
"There are wide erosion scars either side of the path and soil material is being lost at an alarming rate to surrounding watercourses.
"This work will restore vegetation alongside the path and improve resilience to intense rainfall by stemming the loss of soil into watercourses like Thirlmere."
The first year of work is expected to cost £220,000 and will be paid for through public fundraising.
Ranger Pete Entwistle is one of nine carrrying out the work.
He said the team would be aiming to strike a "happy balance between what is needed to protect the fellside environment and meeting the needs of path users".
Set up 25 years ago, Fix the Fells is a partnership between the National Trust, Lake District National Park, Natural England, Friends of the Lake District and the Lake District Foundation.
Its rangers and volunteers work to repair damage and create sustainable paths across the Lake District with the aim of balancing conservation and public access.
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<p>Drug that stops cancer cells hiding and a breakthrough for pancreatic cancer among highlights from Asco conference – but there were also notes of caution</p><p>Doctors, scientists and researchers shared new research about ways to tackle cancer at the 2026 American Society of Clinical Oncology (Asco) annual meeting, the world’s largest cancer conference.</p><p>The <a href="https://www.asco.org/annual-meeting">event in Chicago</a>, attended by 40,000 health professionals, featured more than 200 sessions and 2,700 poster presentations on this year’s theme, “the science and practice of translation: improving cancer outcomes worldwide”. Here are the five biggest takeaways.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/06/new-weapons-war-on-cancer-asco-conference-takeaways">Continue reading...</a>
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When a rogue researcher in China revealed in 2018 that he had used CRISPR to create three gene-edited children , his actions were almost universally condemned by biologists around the world. The main objection was not that gene-editing babies is wrong in itself, but that the CRISPR technique used was not safe and had a very high risk of causing harmful mutations.
Now, a team in the US has used an improved form of CRISPR, known as base editing, to edit healthy embryos and shown that it can be done without introducing unwanted mutations. So are we now at the point where we could consider allowing the use of the technique? The answer is no, because a major obstacle remains.
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Baby with rare disease given world-first personal CRISPR gene therapy
Our DNA consists of two strands. The first form of CRISPR to be developed uses a protein called Cas9, which hooks up with a piece of guide RNA that helps it find a specific place in the genome. Once there, Cas9 cuts through both strands. When a cell tries to repair the damage, it often makes mistakes, introducing small mutations that can disable genes.
So CRISPR-Cas9 is a destructive technique even when it works as intended, and it sometimes goes wrong, with the cut ends of DNA being reattached in the wrong places, causing large mutations and chromosomal abnormalities.
But many improved forms of CRISPR have been developed. For instance, CRISPR base editors change a single DNA letter to another , and during the process cut only a single strand of DNA. So base editing can be used to make precise repairs with much less chance of anything going wrong. The technique has already saved lives and a number of trials are under way – for instance, to test it as a treatment for conditions that result in very high cholesterol .
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US President Donald Trump is planning to meet the bosses of some of the country's most notable artificial intelligence (AI) companies to discuss the government taking a financial stake in their future.
Speaking on Air Force One, Trump said the goal of the US government investing in AI companies was to "create almost a partnership with the American public".
He expects to meet leaders of major AI companies at the White House - likely next week.
Although the president did not name specific companies, the biggest companies in the US working on AI are Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, SpaceX and Anthropic - the latter two of which are expected to go public in the coming weeks .
A spokesman for Microsoft declined to comment. Representatives of the other four companies did not respond to requests for comment.
Trump compared the prospective investment in AI to the US government last year taking a 10% stake in Intel , a company that makes computer chips. He claimed the US has already made money on that investment.
Part of the US investing directing in AI companies, however, would be to improve Americans' views of the technology, which have grown increasingly negative .
"We're talking about it,"Trump said, referring to conversations with AI leaders "where the American people can benefit from the success of AI, the American people will like it better".
Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, this week travelled to Washington DC and met Senator Bernie Sanders.
Sanders recently said he intended to propose a sort of sovereign wealth fund in which the US would take a 50% stake in AI companies.
Asked about Sanders' plan, President Trump insisted he had been considering the US investing in AI companies for a year, but did not dismiss the senator's notion.
"Where economics are concerned, we have things that aren't that far apart," Trump said.
A representative for Sanders cdid not respond to a request for comment.
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Anthropic warns AI could soon start improving itself. Critics aren’t convinced
The maker of Claude wants AI labs, including itself, to prepare for a coordinated slowdown if models begin building their own successors
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The companies at the frontier of artificial intelligence should be ready to slow down, one of the fastest-moving among them says.
Anthropic, the maker of the Claude chatbot , has claimed AI systems may be on the cusp of what it calls recursive self-improvement—the point at which they can design and build their own successors with little human input . The company said this could increase the risk of humans losing control of the technology.
“We believe it would be good for the world to have the option to slow or temporarily pause frontier AI development to enable societal structures and alignment research to keep up with the advance of the technology,” Anthropic said in a June 4 blog post entitled “When AI Builds Itself.”
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The proposal highlights a tough problem in AI governance . A slowdown would need rival companies and governments in several countries to accept the same limits at the same time, with no treaty obliging them and competition only intensifying. That makes the warning technically important and politically fraught: Anthropic has called for the brakes in a race in which it remains a front-runner.
The speed at which the technology is developing could have “huge implications” for society, the blog post stated. The company pointed to its own operation as a warning sign. Anthropic said Claude now writes more than 80 percent of the code merged into its systems, up from low single digits before the company released Claude Code in early 2025. And Anthropic…
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<p>En ny studie tyder på att levande social interaktion kan vara viktig för hjärnans utveckling. – Våra resultat tyder på att det inte räcker att bara se sociala signaler. Själva interaktionen, att den andra individen reagerar på dig i realtid, verkar vara viktig för hjärnans utveckling, säger Olivia Carmstedt, forskare vid Stockholms universitet, i ett […]</p>
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In the winter of 2013-2014, the strong winds of the jet stream shifted north, allowing a mass of warm water dubbed “the blob” to swell across more than 1500 kilometres of the north Pacific Ocean.
Floating instruments moored to the seabed off Alaska, Washington and Oregon alerted scientists and the fishing industry to the arrival of this water, which was up to 4°C hotter than normal.
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They were part of the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI), five mooring arrays off the US west and east coasts and Greenland. Announcing $220 million in funding for the programme in 2023, the US National Science Foundation (NSF) said the OOI was needed to monitor “critical organs of the Earth”. But last month the NSF announced that most of these arrays would be removed from the water following funding cuts by the administration of US President Donald Trump.
As a planet-warming El Niño climate phase warmed the water further in 2015-2016, sensors running up and down OOI mooring wires revealed the blob was expanding into the deep sea below 250 metres. The mooring data helped show the blob, which repeated in 2019 and may be happening more frequently due to climate change, spurred toxic algal blooms that closed California’s $60 million Dungeness crab fishery for the season.
The removal of most OOI moorings will diminish the accuracy of weather forecasting, including precipitation patterns influencing the record drought in the western US. It will also hinder efforts to monitor a possible weakening in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) that keeps Europe temperate, as well as the effects of an imminent El Niño.
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<p>Mossdjur är vanliga kolonibildande djur som finns i de flesta vattenmiljöer, från sjöar och vattendrag till hav. Deras ursprung har länge varit ett mysterium, men de äldsta kända fossilen är från tidsperioden ordovicium för omkring 480 miljoner år sedan. Det har gjort dem till ett undantag bland dagens djurgrupper som uppstod under den så kallade […]</p>
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Astronauts return to ISS after sheltering during air leak repair attempt
Astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) were ordered to shelter in an attached spacecraft after the structure suddenly started leaking more air.
Five of the seven crew were directed to go into the docked SpaceX shuttle Dragon "Freedom" on Friday afternoon and were braced for a potential evacuation.
Meanwhile, two remaining personnel - a pair of Russian cosmonauts - attempted to repair a part of the Russian segment of the ISS, where the leaks had started increasing on Monday.
The repairs were paused and the crew ordered back onto the ISS by Nasa on Friday afternoon.
Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, Sophie Adenot and Andrey Fedyaev, who arrived on the ISS in February, had been sheltering on the docked ship, along with another astronaut Chris Williams.
They had been told to put on their spacesuits so they were ready to undock and return to Earth at short notice.
The Dragon effectively functions as a lifeboat - attached to the station but ready to detach the moment the order is given.
The trigger for the order was a worsening air leak in the transfer tunnel, known as PrK, leading to a section of the Russian segment of the station called the Zvezda service module.
Russian cosmonauts, station commander Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and flight engineer Sergei Mikaev, attempted to fix the problem. Their escape route was the separately docked Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft.
Retired Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, who was a commander of the ISS in 2012, said it had always leaked around half a pound of pressure a day.
"When you have an area that's leaking a little more, you get up to a pound a day, maybe a pound a half or even two, then we hit a threshold where, okay, we've got to do something about this," he told BBC Newshour.
"You're always one breath away from having to take shelter somewhere if the station has a problem. It's just a matter of fact of living on board a spaceship."
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<p>NASA ordered its astronauts to take refuge inside a docked SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and prepare for potential evacuation of the International Space Station, but the crew returned to normal operations shortly afterwards</p>
A viral cartoon about open-source software shows a teetering pile of boxes labelled “all modern digital infrastructure” and one tiny box right at the bottom, propping up the whole lot: “a project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003”.
That’s the reality of open source: every website, application and operating system relies on it. Modern society couldn’t function without it, and yet it’s written by volunteers in their spare time. But the growing burden caused by a flood of AI-generated code is causing many to burn out and leave the community altogether, threatening the future of open-source software.
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'Flashes of brilliance and frustration': I let an AI agent run my day
AI models are making it easier and easier to generate code to build new features, fix bugs or create entire new projects at the click of a button. But that code is often difficult to integrate into existing projects, confusing or simply garbage. While code submissions get ever easier, human contributors responsible for checking, fixing and approving them are getting swamped.
For some workers, the demands have become unbearable. New Scientist arranged an interview with Chad Whitacre, who runs the open-source team at Sentry – a company valued at billions of dollars. Days before the interview, Whitacre cancelled and said he was stepping down from his role. His LinkedIn and Bluesky accounts were shut down, and emails to his account bounced back. He left a blog post explaining that he was stepping away from technology and living a “Neo-Amish” existence. “AI was the last straw,” he wrote.
GitHub, the online platform where many open-source projects are hosted and organised, received 1 billion new code submissions in 2025; this year, they are on track for 14 billion, said its chief operating officer Kyle Daigle in April.
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<p>Team now plans to see if they can use yeast strains harvested from Ötzi the Iceman to brew beer too</p><p>Scientists have baked a sourdough loaf of bread using yeast strains harvested from a 5,000-year-old mummy and now plan to see if they can use them to brew beer too.</p><p>The yeast came from Ötzi the Iceman, a famous corpse remarkably preserved by being frozen in Alpine ice near the Italy-Austria border until he was discovered in 1991. Ötzi has been the subject of intense study since he was found and has shed much light on pre-historic European people and their way of life.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/05/scientists-sourdough-bread-yeast-strains-mummy">Continue reading...</a>