Science
Painted Coffins, a New Priest's Tomb and Thirty Cat Mummies: Egypt Unveils a Major Discovery at Luxor's Dra Abu el-Naga
On May 14, 2026 Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities and the German Archaeological Institute announced one of the most striking finds of the current Luxor excavation season at the Dra Abu el-Naga necropolis on the west bank of the Nile. Inside a previously unknown shaft cut into the courtyard of the tomb of the New Kingdom official Baki, the mission has lifted ten brightly painted wooden coffins, including one belonging to a chantress of the god Amun named Meret. The same season also uncovered the previously undocumented tomb of a priest named A-Shafi-Nakhtu and a separate Ptolemaic burial deposit of more than thirty linen-wrapped mummified cats.
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NASA's Roman Space Telescope Could Reveal Millions of Invisible Neutron Stars Hiding Across the Milky Way
A new study published in Astronomy and Astrophysics on May 15, 2026 estimates that NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, due to launch in early September, could detect dozens of solitary neutron stars by measuring the tiny gravitational bend they impose on the light of more distant stars. The technique — astrometric microlensing — would for the first time allow astronomers to weigh individual neutron stars not bound to a companion. Researchers think the Milky Way may host tens to hundreds of millions of such objects, of which only a few thousand have ever been seen.
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Entertainment
Javier Bardem Earns a Seven-Minute Cannes Ovation for Spanish Father-Daughter Drama 'The Beloved'
Spanish filmmaker Rodrigo Sorogoyen's new film 'The Beloved' (in Spanish, 'El Ser Querido') drew a seven-minute standing ovation when it premiered in the main competition at the 79th Cannes Film Festival on Saturday, May 16, 2026. Javier Bardem stars as Esteban Martinez, an internationally famous and famously combustible film director who returns to Spain to shoot a desert epic and casts his estranged actress daughter Emilia — played by Victoria Luengo — in a leading role. Trade reviewers from Variety, Indiewire and Deadline have called the picture one of Sorogoyen's most powerful works and tipped Bardem as a strong Cannes Best Actor contender.
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Finance
SpaceX Accelerates IPO Plans and Targets a $1.75 Trillion Nasdaq Debut on June 11
Elon Musk's SpaceX has informed its underwriters that it now plans to price its long-awaited initial public offering on June 11, 2026, with trading set to begin on the Nasdaq the next day under the ticker SPCX. At a roughly $1.75 trillion target valuation the offering would dwarf Saudi Aramco's 2019 record listing and become by some distance the largest stock-market debut in history. SpaceX has reportedly set aside as much as 30 percent of the offering for retail investors — far above the typical 5 to 10 percent — in a bid to spread ownership among ordinary households.
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World
Israel Says It Killed the Leader of Hamas's Military Wing in a Gaza Airstrike
The Israeli military announced on Saturday, May 16, 2026 that an airstrike on Friday in the Gaza Strip killed Izz al-Din al-Haddad, the head of Hamas's armed wing and one of the last surviving planners of the October 7, 2023 attacks. Israeli officials say six others, including his wife and daughter, were also killed in the strike. Al-Haddad was the most senior Hamas figure to be killed since the October 2024 U.S.-backed ceasefire, and his death is widely seen as a major blow to the militant group's military command structure.
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3,500-Year-Old Bronze Age Loom Found in Spanish Hill Village Rewrites the Story of Mediterranean Weaving
A Spanish-led team writing in Antiquity has identified the floor plan of a fully functional warp-weighted loom inside a burnt-down Bronze Age house at the Cabezo Redondo hill village in Villena, southeast Spain. Forty-nine clay loom weights, found exactly where they fell when a roof collapse around 1500 BC sealed the room, show that the loom was wide enough and finely set enough to weave early twill — a fabric long thought to have arrived in Iberia only in the Iron Age. The discovery, popularised internationally in mid-May, anchors Cabezo Redondo as one of the few Mediterranean sites where the textile economy that powered the later Bronze Age can actually be seen in situ.
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New Ethiopian Fossils Reveal Early Homo and a Previously Unknown Australopithecus Lived Side by Side 2.6 Million Years Ago
Two newly described jaw fragments from the Ledi-Geraru research area in Ethiopia's Afar region, reported on May 14 in Nature by an Arizona State University-led international team, show that at least four hominin lineages — early Homo, a previously unrecognised late Australopithecus species, Australopithecus garhi and Paranthropus — were sharing the same patch of East African savanna between roughly 2.6 and 2.8 million years ago. The find finally retires the linear 'ape-to-human' diagram for that period and replaces it with a crowded family bush in which our own genus emerges alongside, rather than after, several robust cousins.
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Entertainment
James Gray's 'Paper Tiger' Earns 10-Minute Cannes Ovation as Scarlett Johansson Misses Her Own Standing Cheer
James Gray's anxious Cold-War-coda thriller 'Paper Tiger' premiered in the Grand Théâtre Lumière on Saturday night, May 16, and was met with a ten-minute standing ovation from a black-tie crowd of 2,300 — the longest reception so far at the 79th Cannes Film Festival. Adam Driver, who plays a burned-out Pentagon analyst, fielded most of the cheers alone after co-lead Scarlett Johansson — currently shooting an 'Exorcist' reboot in New York — failed to pick up Gray's FaceTime call from the festival floor. Bookmakers immediately moved 'Paper Tiger' to joint third in the Palme d'Or market.
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Finance
Cerebras Closes First Trading Day Up 68% — Largest Tech IPO Pop of 2026 Pushes AI-Chip Maker Past $80 Billion
Shares of AI-chip designer Cerebras Systems opened on Nasdaq under the ticker CBRS at $214 on Thursday, May 14, and closed the session at $268.80 — a 68 percent gain over the $160 IPO price set the night before. The pop lifted the wafer-scale rival to Nvidia past $80 billion in market value on its first day of trading and produced the largest first-day move for any U.S. technology IPO since Snowflake debuted in 2020. The result instantly reopened the question of how much pent-up demand still sits behind the next wave of OpenAI- and Anthropic-adjacent listings.
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World
Iranian Drone Sparks Fire at UAE's Barakah Nuclear Plant — First Atomic Site Struck in the Iran War
An Iranian drone slipped past Emirati and U.S. air defenses early on Sunday, May 17, and detonated against an electrical generator on the outer perimeter of the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant in Abu Dhabi's Al Dhafra region — the first time a nuclear facility has been hit in the 11-week war. Abu Dhabi Media Office said the blaze was contained quickly with no injuries, and the Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation confirmed all four reactor units are still operating normally with no change in radiological safety levels. The strike instantly redrew the war's red lines and pushed Brent crude past $108.
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New 20-Meter Brazilian Dinosaur 'Dasosaurus' Shows How Sauropods Crossed Between Europe and South America
A new species of long-necked sauropod, named Dasosaurus tocantinensis, has been formally described from fossils unearthed in 2021 during road and rail construction near Davinópolis in Maranhão state, northeastern Brazil. Published on May 15 in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, the study by Elver L. Mayer and colleagues identifies the animal as a roughly 20-meter-long member of the Somphospondyli — and surprisingly, its closest known relative is the Spanish dinosaur Garumbatitan. The match implies that Early Cretaceous sauropods were still moving between continents long after the Atlantic had begun to widen.
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Space
SpaceX Sets May 19 for First Launch of Starship V3 — and the First Flight from Pad 2
SpaceX confirmed on May 14 that it is targeting Tuesday, May 19 at 6:30 p.m. EDT for Flight 12 of its Starship-Super Heavy rocket, the debut of the third major iteration of the vehicle and the first launch from Pad 2 at the Starbase site in South Texas. Twenty-two simulator Starlink satellites and two new camera-equipped craft designed to photograph Starship's heat shield mid-flight will fly on the mission, while the Super Heavy booster will perform a soft splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico instead of returning to the catch arms.
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Entertainment
Bulgaria Wins Eurovision for the First Time as Dara's 'Bangaranga' Storms Vienna
Bulgaria claimed its first-ever Eurovision Song Contest victory on May 16, when 24-year-old singer Darina Yotova — performing as Dara — won the 70th edition of the contest at the Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna with the song 'Bangaranga.' She finished with 516 points and became the first artist since Salvador Sobral in 2017 to top both the jury and public votes, meaning next year's contest will be hosted in Sofia.
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Finance
Geothermal Startup Fervo Energy Surges 33% in $1.89 Billion IPO Driven by AI Data-Center Demand
Fervo Energy, the Bill Gates-backed geothermal developer, priced an upsized initial public offering of 70 million Class A shares at $27 per share on May 12, raising about $1.89 billion. When it began trading on the Nasdaq on May 13 under the ticker FRVO, the stock jumped roughly 33%, pushing the company's valuation past $10 billion. Investors say the rush is being fueled by the energy appetite of artificial-intelligence data centers, which are looking for round-the-clock low-carbon power.
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World
Pentagon to Pull 5,000 Stryker Brigade Troops Out of Germany in Biggest U.S. Drawdown in Years
The U.S. Department of Defense announced on May 16 that it will withdraw roughly 5,000 of the approximately 39,000 American soldiers stationed in Germany, with the so-called Stryker Brigade Combat Team at Vilseck the main unit affected. The move is the largest planned reduction of U.S. ground forces in Germany since the post-Cold-War drawdowns of the 1990s and is already prompting alarm from NATO allies on the eastern flank.
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Science
A46 Newark Bypass Dig Uncovers 8,000 Years of English History — Including a Buried Anglo-Saxon House
Wessex Archaeology and Skanska have released the first findings from a 22-week excavation along the A46 Newark Bypass route in Nottinghamshire, England. A team of 30 archaeologists searching 9.63 hectares ahead of National Highways construction recovered seven human burials provisionally dated from the Iron Age to Anglo-Saxon periods, a Roman well and farmhouse foundation, and the sunken floor of a rare Anglo-Saxon grubenhaus — evidence of a community that may stretch back to 6000 BC.
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Science
Astronomers Capture the Sharpest Image Yet of a 3-Million-Light-Year Cosmic Web Filament
A team led by University of Milano-Bicocca PhD student Davide Tornotti has captured the clearest direct image ever made of a single thread of the "cosmic web," a 3-million-light-year strand of dim hydrogen gas connecting two galaxies that hosted active supermassive black holes when the universe was only 2 billion years old. The result, published in Nature Astronomy and highlighted by the European Southern Observatory this week, gives astronomers their first visible map of the gas highways that funnel matter into early galaxies.
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Entertainment
Shakira and Burna Boy Drop "Dai Dai," the Official Song of the 2026 FIFA World Cup
FIFA released "Dai Dai" on May 14, the official anthem of the 2026 World Cup. The four-minute track pairs Colombian superstar Shakira with Nigerian Afrobeats artist Burna Boy in a multilingual chorus — Italian, Yoruba, Spanish, French and English — over a beat that fuses Afrobeats, reggaetón and dance-pop. Shakira will donate her share of the song's profits to children's education programs.
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Finance
OpenAI Launches $4 Billion DeployCo Consulting Arm to Embed AI Inside Big Companies
OpenAI announced this week that it has spun out a new subsidiary, the OpenAI Deployment Company (DeployCo), backed by more than $4 billion in initial investment from TPG, Goldman Sachs, SoftBank and others. DeployCo will send teams of "Forward Deployed Engineers" into client offices in partnership with Bain, McKinsey and Capgemini, taking direct aim at the $375 billion enterprise IT services market.
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World
USS Gerald R. Ford Comes Home After Longest Carrier Deployment Since Vietnam
The world's largest aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford, docked at Naval Station Norfolk on Saturday after an 11-month deployment that supported the Iran war and the capture of Nicolás Maduro. About 5,000 sailors stepped off the ship to see their families for the first time since June, in the U.S. Navy's longest operational carrier voyage since the end of the Vietnam War.
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Science
FDA Greenlights Veppanu, the First PROTAC Cancer Drug, for ESR1-Mutated Breast Cancer
On 1 May 2026 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Pfizer and Arvinas's vepdegestrant, branded Veppanu, for adults with ESR1-mutated, ER-positive, HER2-negative advanced breast cancer who have had at least one prior endocrine therapy. It is the first PROteolysis TArgeting Chimera, or PROTAC, ever to clear the FDA — a drug that destroys disease-driving proteins rather than merely blocking them.
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Tech
China's Origin Quantum Unveils 180-Qubit Wukong-180, Its Fourth-Generation Superconducting Quantum Computer
Hefei-based Origin Quantum launched the Origin Wukong-180 on 9 May 2026, a 180-qubit superconducting quantum computer with 251 coupling qubits, 99.9% single-qubit gate fidelity and 99% two-qubit fidelity. The machine roughly doubles the qubit count of the firm's earlier 72-qubit Wukong and is aimed at AI optimisation, chemistry and finance workloads.
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Entertainment
'Club Kid' Earns Seven-Minute Cannes Ovation as Jordan Firstman Becomes Festival's First Breakout
Jordan Firstman's directorial debut Club Kid premiered in Un Certain Regard at the 79th Cannes Film Festival on 15 May 2026, drawing a seven-minute standing ovation inside the Théâtre Claude Debussy. The dramedy stars Firstman, Diego Calva, Cara Delevingne and Miss Benny and follows a washed-up New York party promoter forced to turn his life around when an unexpected visitor arrives.
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Finance
Applied Materials Posts Record $7.91 Billion Quarter as AI Chip Build-Out Hits 'Full Force'
Chip-equipment giant Applied Materials reported record fiscal Q2 2026 revenue of $7.91 billion and non-GAAP earnings of $2.86 a share on 14 May, beating Wall Street estimates and lifting full-year semiconductor-equipment growth guidance above 30%. Shares rose about 2% after hours as CEO Gary Dickerson said AI infrastructure investment is now in 'full force'.
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