Environment
MIT researchers are mapping extreme weather risks — and building tools to act on them
Warming temperatures are fueling more extreme weather-related events — catastrophic floods, severe hurricanes and cyclones, and wildfires exacerbated by drought. But the tools used by local communities, emergency and public safety agencies, and insurance and risk markets have not...
Life
A new understanding of how enzymes influence bacterial protein production
Antimicrobial resistance is one of the most pressing global health and development challenges of our time. Bacteria and other pathogens are rapidly developing resistance to existing treatments, making infections harder to treat. Without new approaches, minor inconveniences today, such...
Space
NASA Awards SpaceX Three Crew Flights to Space Station – NASA
Editor’s note: This feature was updated on Sept. 18, 2026, to add additional details on mission readiness dates.
To continue regular crew transportation to the International Space Station, NASA has awarded SpaceX three additional missions through a contract modification.
As part...
Science
This ‘anti-vampiric’ grave used two strategies to stop the undead
Someone in 17th century Poland really did not want one particular girl rising from the dead.In 2022, archaeologists unearthed an unsettling grave in a cemetery in Pień, north-central Poland. A young woman had been buried with the handle of...
Life
Reality TV star Porsha Williams reveals she had to undergo emergency partial hysterectomy:
For more than a decade, reality TV star Porsha Williams has given fans a window into her life, from fertility struggles to the aftermath of her divorce. Now, she's opening up about a health issue...
Science
What’s behind ‘one of paleontology’s most enduring enigmas’?
A honeycomb-shaped pattern in marine sediments has befuddled scientists for more than 150 years, but a new study points to a potential culprit.The formations, known as Paleodictyon, are probably burrows created by arthropods, possibly a crustacean subgroup that includes...
Environment
Flood-damaged Nepal wants help from the global climate Loss and Damage Fund – but it’s waiting, along with 118 other countries
As it faces the enormous task of rebuilding from a deadly flood that tore through communities in the Himalayas, Nepal is seeking compensation from the international Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage – meaning...
Environment
Nepal isn’t the only disaster-struck country waiting for money from the global climate Loss and Damage Fund
As it faces the enormous task of rebuilding from a deadly flood that tore through communities in the Himalayas, Nepal is seeking compensation from the international Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage – meaning...
Science
New species of wild cat discovered for first time in more than a century, researcher says
Scientists have discovered a new species of wild cat for the first time in more than a century, a Bolivian researcher told AFP on Thursday. The Tilcayo tiger cat, a small feline with a spotted,...
Life
‘I’ve had a mastectomy when it wasn’t needed’
The women were among hundreds who were harmed by their treatment at County Durham health trust.
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First UK charges brought over 1994 Rwanda genocide
A Rwandan man, who has been living in north London, has been charged with offences relating to the 1994...