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Playing against climate risk
Sai Ravela, principal research scientist in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), works with a team of researchers, local partners, and community collaborators to develop game-based computer models to help local communities find solutions to their...
Life
The Best Fitness Deals Under $100 From Amazon’s Early Labor Day Sale
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Why You Might Need to Roll Back Windows’ Latest Update
If you're the kind of person who installs Windows updates as soon as they hit your PC, you're likely running version KB5120998 of...
Science
To nap or not to nap? Science is still waking up to the question
Science News was founded in 1921 as an independent, nonprofit source of accurate information on the latest news of science, medicine and technology. Today, our mission remains the same: to empower people to evaluate the news and the world...
Space
Ribbon-Cutting Event for NASA Deep Space Network’s Deep Space Station 23 – NASA Science
Leadership from NASA Headquarters, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the Deep Space Network (DSN) stand in front of the recently completed Deep Space Station 23 antenna at the Deep Space Network’s Goldstone complex near Barstow, California, on Aug. 25,...
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NASA’s Dark Universe-Seeking Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Launches – NASA
Now on a three-month, million-mile journey to its final orbit, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will soon reveal the universe’s darkest secrets. The mission launched at 7:26 a.m. EDT Sunday aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch...
Environment
Hertfordshire nature reserves spot rare species during heatwaves
At the end of June, the project visited Fir & Pond Woods, near Potters Bar, and recorded Euides basilinea, a planthopper associated with reeds, which had no previous records in Hertfordshire.At Aldbury Nowers, near Tring, the leafhopper Zygina hyperici...
Space
NASA Announces Next Steps for Swift Rescue Mission
The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, launched in 2004 to study gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), has vastly outlived its original two-year mission plan. As the successor to the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, it...
Environment
When a mountain falls: How ice and rock triggered Nepal’s catastrophic flood – and why climate change is raising the risks
The catastrophic flood that killed hundreds of people in Nepal on Aug. 26, 2026, and left many more missing likely began with falling ice and rock crashing into the river below, but that wasn’t the...
Life
Juul can sell updated e-cigarette with age-verification system, FDA says
Vaping company Juul Labs on Friday received federal permission to sell an updated version of its e-cigarette, which includes an optional age-verification system designed to prevent underage use.The decision from the Food and Drug Administration...
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Trump and Xi agree to set up AI safety channel as military and trade talks continue
China and the United States agreed to establish a channel for handling AI-related incidents and...