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Hundreds escape Greek wildfire by sea as blazes continue across Europe

Around 500 people, mostly tourists, are evacuated by boat from Agios Vasileios after becoming trapped.

BBCJuly 31, 2026

World-first photonic time crystal opens a new era of light control

Scientists have built the first all-optical photonic time crystal, allowing them to reshape the behavior of terahertz light at extraordinary speeds. The breakthrough could open the door to ultrafast computing, smarter communication systems, advanced imaging, and a new generation of highly tunable lasers.

ScienceDailyJuly 31, 2026

What’s Behind the Heat Wave Scorching Huge Parts of the World

A combination of El Niño, unusually hot ocean waters, and jet stream changes is sending temperatures soaring in the US, Europe, and Asia.

WiredJuly 31, 2026

How A2A is Building a World of Collaborative Agents

Celebrating the first anniversary of the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol, this blog post highlights how the framework enables autonomous AI agents to securely collaborate and hand off tasks without the rigidity of traditional APIs. By delegating complex workflows to specialized peer agents, A2A prevents context pollution, ensures data privacy, and simplifies application design through modularity. To demonstrate this ecosystem in action, the post spotlights FoldRun—an agentic interface for life sciences that orchestrates complex protein structure predictions—alongside diverse A2A use cases spanning commerce, data streaming, DevOps, and telecommunications.

Google DevelopersJuly 31, 2026