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Technicians prepare the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory spacecraft before its 2004 launch at Cape Canaveral

NASA’s Swift Observatory Re-enters Over Indonesia After Nearly 22 Years in Space

NASA confirmed Swift’s atmospheric re-entry over North Sumatra on November 4, ending a mission that observed more than 2,000 gamma-ray bursts.

November 5, 2026

by Amanda Graham

Amelia Earhart's red Lockheed Vega 5B monoplane on display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

Earhart Search Team Says Lagoon Object Was Likely Trees, Not Her Plane

The Purdue-backed team that called its evidence "very strong" says the Taraia Object in Nikumaroro's lagoon was most likely a collection of large trees, not Amelia Earhart's Electra. Its steel-tube find and castaway theory survive, but no outside specialist is

October 19, 2026

by Dilnaz Shaikh

Image accompanying Euronews reporting on the end of leap seconds in 2027

Leap Seconds End in May 2027, but Your Clock Won’t Jump an Hour

Global timekeepers have voted to end leap-second adjustments from May 20, 2027. The new rule allows

Portrait of Stephen Cash, a smiling man in a dark suit and red-and-blue striped tie against a gray background

NASA Hands Marshall Center to a Shuttle-Era Safety Chief After 13 Months

NASA named retired Marshall engineer Steve Cash director of its Huntsville center, effective Monday, ending 13

NASA satellite view of smoke from Canadian wildfires drifting south into the United States

Wildfires Have Erased Four Years of America’s Clean-Air Progress, and the Trend Is Still Climbing

A University of Iowa study in Science finds wildfire smoke has reversed about four years of US ozone-pollution gains, with surface smog rising 4 percent since 2015 after an 11 percent decline

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Science

A wildfire burns through forest in New Mexico, the kind of dry, beetle-stressed landscape that increasingly turns into catastrophic fire

New Mexico’s Trees Are Dying Three Times Faster, and the Beetles Are Doing the Work the Climate Started

A new state and federal survey of 14 million acres of New Mexico forest found tree mortality tripled in 2025, with beetle-killed conifers up 211 percent. The pinon-juniper system that defines the

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Science

A water aqueduct under drought conditions, illustrating the kind of supply stress now reaching the East Coast as Virginia, North Carolina and Connecticut tighten restrictions

The East Coast Drought That Wasn’t Supposed to Happen Here Triggers Mandatory Cuts in Three States

Virginia hit 38 percent extreme drought this week, Durham is enforcing mandatory cuts from Monday, and Connecticut's governor has declared a Stage 2 advisory for three counties. The Mid-Atlantic is starting to

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Science

SpaceX Nasdaq IPO opening bell ceremony on June 12, 2026 — Gwynne Shotwell rings the bell at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York City

SpaceX Goes Public at $1.77 Trillion, Catapulting Elon Musk Into History as the World’s First Trillionaire

NEW YORK – On a Friday morning in June, at the Nasdaq MarketSite in the heart of Times Square, Gwynne Shotwell rang the opening bell to a crowd of audible cheers. A

June 12, 2026

Artificial Intelligence·Business·Economy·Science·Technology

Tourists use umbrellas to shield themselves from intense sun outside Istanbul's Hagia Sophia during a summer 2025 heatwave

Human-Caused Warming Hit 1.37C in 2025, and the 1.5C Budget Now Runs Out Around 2030

Seventy scientists put human-caused warming at 1.37C last year and the carbon budget for 1.5C at about three years of emissions. The Paris ceiling the world promised to defend is now projected

June 12, 2026

Climate·News·Science

People wade through a recreational vehicle park flooded by a king tide near Corte Madera in Marin County, California

Once-Rare Coastal Floods Are Now 12 Times More Likely, Twin Studies Find

Floods that coastal planning treats as one-in-a-century events are now about 12 times more likely, two new studies find, with human-driven sea level rise behind most extreme water days. The math underneath

June 12, 2026

Climate·News·Science

Huge Pacific waves crash against the rocky shore at Shore Acres on the Oregon coast, the kind of surf El Nino winters drive into the US West Coast

El Niño Is Back, and NOAA Puts 63 Percent Odds on a Super Event by Winter

NOAA has declared El Niño with two-in-three odds it reaches super strength by winter, a class of event seen only five times since 1950. It arrives on a planet already at record

June 12, 2026

Climate·News·Science

Smartphone displayed with social media app in Brussels June 2026, illustrating new research on birth rate decline

Governments Are Spending Billions to Raise Birth Rates. The iPhone May Have Already Won.

A new NBER study by Middlebury College economists finds that the iPhone's 2007 rollout explains up to 52% of the U.S. fertility decline — exposing a fundamental gap in the pronatalist policy

June 10, 2026

News·Science·Technology

A NOAA scientific monitoring buoy being deployed at sea, the kind of ocean observing instrument the US is now removing

Trump Administration Pulls America’s Deep-Ocean Sensors as the Atlantic Sends Warnings

Recovery ships are pulling the Ocean Observatories Initiative's sensors out of the Pacific and Atlantic this month, ending a $368 million system built to watch for the ocean's tipping points. Scientists call

June 10, 2026

Climate·News·Science

Neolithic Linear Pottery culture vessels, the farming culture that occupied the Vrable settlement in Slovakia

A Neolithic Ditch in Slovakia Held 77 Headless Skeletons. Only a Child Still Had a Skull.

A new study describes 78 Neolithic skeletons in a ditch at Vrable, Slovakia, all but one missing their skulls. The lead researchers argue the heads were removed in a deliberate burial rite

June 10, 2026

News·Science

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NASA’s Swift Observatory Re-enters Over Indonesia After Nearly 22 Years in Space

Earhart Search Team Says Lagoon Object Was Likely Trees, Not Her Plane

Leap Seconds End in May 2027, but Your Clock Won’t Jump an Hour

NASA Hands Marshall Center to a Shuttle-Era Safety Chief After 13 Months

Wildfires Have Erased Four Years of America’s Clean-Air Progress, and the Trend Is Still Climbing

New Mexico’s Trees Are Dying Three Times Faster, and the Beetles Are Doing the Work the Climate Started

The East Coast Drought That Wasn’t Supposed to Happen Here Triggers Mandatory Cuts in Three States

SpaceX Goes Public at $1.77 Trillion, Catapulting Elon Musk Into History as the World’s First Trillionaire

Human-Caused Warming Hit 1.37C in 2025, and the 1.5C Budget Now Runs Out Around 2030

Once-Rare Coastal Floods Are Now 12 Times More Likely, Twin Studies Find

El Niño Is Back, and NOAA Puts 63 Percent Odds on a Super Event by Winter

Trump Administration Pulls America’s Deep-Ocean Sensors as the Atlantic Sends Warnings

A Neolithic Ditch in Slovakia Held 77 Headless Skeletons. Only a Child Still Had a Skull.

Radical Islam is being appreciated by Indian authorities too

Bangladesh; India’s Biggest Ally or China’s Dragon Nest?

Ahmadis in Bangladesh face fresh threat of persecution

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