Hobart woman Renee Woodleigh is selling a 1937 edition of JRR Tolkien's classic The Hobbit.

She says it is a first edition, which a rare book specialist says could "absolutely" be true

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Kodak says it might have to shut down after 133 years

Smartwatches are useless for measuring actual stress levels, study says

Radioactive water from UK nuclear bomb base leaked into sea, files show

Exclusive: Polluted water was released into loch near Glasgow because Royal Navy failed to maintain 1,500 water pipes, says watchdog

Plastic production has increased more than 200 times since 1950 and hits health at every stage from extraction to disposal, says review in the Lancet

What the size of your book collection says about you

Hedge funds give up half of 2025 gains in 'challenging' markets, says Goldman Sachs

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What all this says is that simple decisions are best made by careful conscious thought. But for complicated decisions, the best choices may result from “deliberation without paying attention,” that is letting the thinking be done by the unconscious mind

Brake pad dust can be more toxic than exhaust emissions, study says

Research shows move to electric vehicles may not be enough to enable pollution from cars to be eradicated

Japan releases 200,000 tonnes of emergency rice stockpile as prices soar

Agriculture minister says rising prices have ‘had a significant impact on people’s lives’ amid record heat, surges in demand and distribution problems

Lung cancer diagnoses on the rise among never-smokers worldwide

Research shows need for further studies into air pollution and other causal factors, expert says

A former safety researcher at OpenAI says he is “pretty terrified” about the pace of development in artificial intelligence, warning the industry is taking a “very risky gamble” on the technology

"I’m going to build something about inequality, taxing the rich, and I’m going to build it on YouTube"

Landing a professional job in the U.S. has become so tough that even Harvard Business School says its M.B.A.s can’t solely rely on the university’s name to open doors anymore

FTX sues Binance and its former CEO for $1.8bn

Collapsed cryptocurrency company says $1.8bn was ‘fraudulently transferred’ to Binance and its executives

Rich countries silencing climate protest while preaching about rights elsewhere, says study

Keine Sorge, die Pandemie ist vorbei

Disinformation networks ‘flooded’ X before EU elections, report says

Analysis by Dutch researchers shows coordinated activity in France, Germany and Italy in run-up to ballot