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Snow-covered summit of Avachinsky volcano on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula rising through a ring of cloud, seen from orbit

Japan Warned of a Magnitude 9.9 Quake. The Real One Was a 6.9 in Kamchatka

Japan's weather agency issued an early warning for a magnitude 9.9 earthquake that did not exist, then withdrew it about eight minutes later. The real quake was a magnitude 6.9 near Kamchatka,

October 16, 2026

by Dilnaz Shaikh

Starship's white launch plume rising over the Gulf of Mexico off the Texas coast, photographed from the International Space Station

FAA Reviews 456 Starship Launches a Year From Boca Chica, Up From 25

Boca Chica, Texas, is licensed for three Starship launches a year after dark. A Federal Aviation Administration review opened this week sets a ceiling of 456 launches, assumes half would fly at night, and gives no date for a draft.

October 16, 2026

by Dilnaz Shaikh

Landsat 8 satellite image of snow-capped Mount Taranaki in New Zealand ringed by dark forest inside a circular protected-area boundary, surrounded by green farmland

World May Already Conserve 27% of Its Land, Just Not Where It Counts

Official records miss land that is already being conserved, a Nature study led by the University

Satellite view of grey smoke plumes streaming across the Amazon River and rainforest from fires near Manaus and Santarem on October 12, 2026

Smoke Shuts Manaus Schools as October Fire Detections Near Triple

Smoke from Amazon fires closed schools in Manaus on October 12, and INPE's data show October

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

Bleached white coral and dead reef near Lizard Island on the Great Barrier Reef as ocean temperatures rise

UN Warns the Ocean Is Nearing a Tipping Point as Heat and Acid Build

The ocean is approaching a tipping point after a ninth straight year of record heat, a sweeping UN assessment by 600 scientists from 86 nations warns. It found marine heatwaves across nearly

June 9, 2026

Climate·News·Science

NASA Artemis III Space Launch System rocket ahead of crew Earth orbit mission 2027

NASA Names Artemis III Crew for Earth-Orbit Mission That Was Supposed to Go to the Moon

NASA named the four-person Artemis III crew at Johnson Space Center on June 9, 2026. The mission, originally designed to return humans to the Moon's surface, was redesignated as a low Earth

June 9, 2026

News·Science·Technology

An Ozempic injection pen, a GLP-1 drug linked in a study to lower breast cancer risk

Ozempic-Style Drugs Linked to a Third Less Breast Cancer in a Large Study

Women taking GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic had roughly 30% lower odds of developing breast cancer, a study of more than 111,000 patients presented at the ASCO cancer meeting found. The finding is

June 9, 2026

Health·News·Science

NASA's Parker Solar Probe spacecraft flying through the Sun's corona during its record-breaking perihelion approach

Seven Years Into the Sun: Parker Solar Probe Rewrote Space Physics But Its Central Question Remains Unanswered

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has completed 27 passes through the Sun's corona, survived a record-breaking 6.1 million kilometre perihelion, and fundamentally changed solar physics. The one thing it hasn't done is answer

June 6, 2026

Astronomy·News·Science

Young adult ochre sea stars on Oregon coast rocky intertidal zone

Two Species, Two Fates: What the Sea Star’s Uneven Recovery Reveals About Ocean Resilience

The ochre sea star is returning to Pacific tide pools through a mysterious population boom. Its larger cousin, the sunflower star, may be functionally extinct across much of its range. The divergence

June 6, 2026

News·Science

Artemis II astronaut Victor Glover walks on a treadmill in a spacesuit harnessed to NASA's Active Response Gravity Offload System simulating lunar gravity

Artemis II Crew Bodies Still Being Studied as Moon Medicine Takes Shape

Eight weeks after splashdown, NASA scientists are still running tests on the Artemis II astronauts — and a miniature lab made from their own cells could transform medicine for every future Moon

June 6, 2026

Health·News·Science

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Japan Warned of a Magnitude 9.9 Quake. The Real One Was a 6.9 in Kamchatka

FAA Reviews 456 Starship Launches a Year From Boca Chica, Up From 25

World May Already Conserve 27% of Its Land, Just Not Where It Counts

Smoke Shuts Manaus Schools as October Fire Detections Near Triple

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.

UN Warns the Ocean Is Nearing a Tipping Point as Heat and Acid Build

NASA Names Artemis III Crew for Earth-Orbit Mission That Was Supposed to Go to the Moon

Ozempic-Style Drugs Linked to a Third Less Breast Cancer in a Large Study

Seven Years Into the Sun: Parker Solar Probe Rewrote Space Physics But Its Central Question Remains Unanswered

Two Species, Two Fates: What the Sea Star’s Uneven Recovery Reveals About Ocean Resilience

Artemis II Crew Bodies Still Being Studied as Moon Medicine Takes Shape

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Ahmadis in Bangladesh face fresh threat of persecution

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