Millions Swelter under Relentless Heat Dome Smothering Eastern U.S. High humidity and low overnight temperatures will put tens of millions of people under heat alerts over the course of the coming week By Meghan Bartels edited by Clara Moskowitz HeatRisk forecast for July 27, 2025. The NWS HeatRisk is an experimental color-numeric-based index that provides…
Losing someone we love can affect us in many ways Vidar Nordli-Mathisen/Unsplash People who experience long periods of intense grief after the death of a loved one seem to have a higher risk of dying within the next decade than those who come to terms with their loss more easily. Numerous studies have linked bereavement…
Amid simmering anxiety about the future of federally funded science, the U.S. government has quietly withdrawn support for cosmology’s next premier project, an experiment that would have given us the best read yet of the strangest chapter in our cosmic origin story. Called CMB-S4—or Cosmic Microwave Background Stage 4—the project would have used a suite…
Leafy seadragons rely on camouflage to avoid predation Alastair Pollock Photography/Getty Images One of the world’s most extraordinary fish could be in danger of extinction due to a massive bloom of toxic algae engulfing parts of the southern coast of Australia. Leafy seadragons (Phycodurus eques) are in the same group of fish that includes seahorses…
We Just Discovered the Sounds of Spacetime. Let’s Keep Listening Less than a decade since the first detection of gravitational waves—ripples in spacetime itself—proposed budget cuts threaten to silence this groundbreaking science By Lieke van Son Illustration of two black holes orbiting each other. Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library/Getty Images Long ago, in a galaxy far…
US President Donald Trump displays a signed executive order at an AI summit on 23 July 2025 in Washington, DC Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images President Donald Trump wants to ensure the US government only gives federal contracts to artificial intelligence developers whose systems are “free from ideological bias”. But the new requirements could allow his administration…
Hulk Hogan’s Biggest Impact May Have Been in Digital Privacy Hulk Hogan, a larger-than-life wrestler known for his showmanship, succumbed to cardiac arrest after a career marked by digital hoaxes and a landmark battle against online exploitation By Deni Ellis Béchard edited by Jeanna Bryner Hulk Hogan attends a New Era In Florida Gaming Event…
Hotter seas can lead to more intense storms, such as Hurricane Milton in 2024 NOAA Extreme marine heat recorded since 2023 might herald the start of a regime shift in the world’s oceans that poses a grave threat to life on Earth, scientists have warned. Record-breaking marine heatwaves emerged in the North Atlantic and Pacific…
A team used generative AI to enhance T cells’ ability to fight melanoma. The immunotherapy approach needs more testing before use in cancer patients.
‘Arsenic Life’ Microbe Study Retracted after 15 Years of Controversy A controversial arsenic microbe study unveiled 15 years ago has been retracted. The study’s authors are crying foul By Dan Vergano edited by Lee Billings Felisa Wolfe-Simon speaks during a news conference at NASA Headquarters on December 2, 2010 in Washington, DC. “Can you imagine…
