Scientists strike invisible gold in the deep sea—locked inside fool's gold

Scientists struck gold in the deep sea, trapped inside the crystal structure of fool's gold
Scientists find ultra-high invisible gold concentrations in seafloor hydrothermal pyrite deposits. Credit: Scientific Reports (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-026-58760-z

Pyrite, an iron sulfide ore, is often known as fool's gold because its shiny metallic luster and pale brass-yellow color can easily fool the untrained eye into mistaking it for real gold. This time, however, 360 kilometers (220 miles) south of Tokyo, scientists have uncovered invisible gold within pyrite structures found deep beneath the ocean at the Higashi-Aogashima Knoll Caldera hydrothermal field.

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Council Post: Why AI Is Forcing Software Companies To Rethink How They're Built

Andrew Avanessian, CEO at Haiilo.

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​I've spent my career scaling software businesses through periods of significant change—from shifts in technology to mergers and acquisitions to external events like the COVID-19 pandemic, which saw every organization rapidly adopting new ways of working.

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US and Iran exchange fire and disagree on whether strait of Hormuz is open | First Thing

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The US military has launched a fresh wave of attacks against Iran amid the escalating standoff over the strait of Hormuz.

Tehran said the latest strikes had “rendered futile” all the diplomatic efforts of the past few months, while Donald Trump said: “We’re beating them ​up”, as oil prices surged again.

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This week in PC games: vert-ramping trains, a retold murder mystery, and Cthulhu’s new gig as an AI Director

What we're feeding the Maw

In Denshattack, your train hurtles down a triple-lane track towarrds an attacking mecha.
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Merry Monday, readers. Edwin’s been struck down by a post-TennoCon lurgy, and we were only too happy to allow him some rest, provided he file his Soulframe and Warframe: Tau stories before collapsing into a feverish heap. We even agreed to feed the Maw in his absence, albeit without reaching a similar accord on responsibility for the litter tray.

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German court convicts Iraqi couple of enslaving Yazidi girls

A court in Germany has convicted an Iraqi couple of enslaving two Yazidi girls in Iraq.

The Munich Higher Regional Court also found them guilty of membership of the Islamic State group (IS).

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Kalshi launches 'Pro' product for users trading multiple markets at same time, perpetual futures

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Prediction market platform Kalshi is launching a product for its highly active traders on Monday, the company told CNBC.

Kalshi Pro, now available to the public, is designed for speculators who trade multiple markets at the same time and or move with speed during live events, according to a memo provided to CNBC. The platform is also designed to support those who run resting orders, trades that don't execute until certain prices are met, the memo said.

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Brendon McCullum sacked as England Test head coach but will retain white-ball role

Brendon McCullum has been sacked as Test coach in another staggering twist in the unravelling of the England team.

Two weeks after Ben Stokes made the stunning announcement to step down as captain and retire from international cricket, McCullum's exit brings a definitive end to the Bazball era.

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AI giants learn what everyone else on the modern internet already knows

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X-Men '97 voice actor weighs in on Marvel's most iconic love triangle: 'I'll ship that'

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Emma Frost is one of the most complex and nuanced characters in the X-Men universe, but if your main point of contact with the franchise is X-Men: The Animated Series, you wouldn't know it.

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Creating synthetic life in a lab? SpudCell falls short of the goal, but raises even more useful questions

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Nature is beautiful, powerful and essential. But nature is not always gentle. The same biological world that gives rise to forests, coral reefs and human life also produces infections, cancer, genetic disease, crop blights and toxins. Natural processes can heal, sustain and inspire, but they can also destroy.

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