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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

A supergiant deep-sea isopod specimen collected by Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers

Deep-Sea Isopod’s Borrowed Bacterial Gene Slows Metabolism in Human Cells

Researchers at the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences say a gene the supergiant isopod borrowed from bacteria, and the cold re-tuned, lets it ration energy for years between

June 6, 2026

News·Science

International Space Station photographed from SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour in orbit above Earth

ISS Astronauts Ordered Into Spacesuits as Air Leak Doubles on Russian Module

NASA ordered five astronauts aboard the International Space Station into their SpaceX Crew Dragon on Friday as a worsening air leak in the Russian Zvezda service module doubled its rate — then

June 5, 2026

Astronomy·News·Science

Uzatom head Azim Akhmedkhadjaev and Rosatom Director Alexey Likhachev at the Jizzakh nuclear power plant construction site in Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan Calls Start of Nuclear Power Plant Construction a Historic Day, Pledges More Projects

Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, speaking alongside Vladimir Putin at St. Petersburg's Konstantinovsky Palace, hailed the formal launch of construction on Central Asia's first integrated nuclear power plant as a historic milestone —

June 5, 2026

Business·News·Science

Bumblebee on a yellow flower representing new research on insect time perception and cognitive abilities

Bumblebees Can Tell Time: New Research Shows Insects Possess Cognitive Abilities Once Reserved for Vertebrates

For decades, the standard assumption in cognitive neuroscience was straightforward: intelligence scales with brain size. The larger and more complex the brain, the more sophisticated the behavior. Bumblebees, whose brains weigh roughly

June 4, 2026

Science·Technology

NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory image of a solar flare illustrating space weather threats StormWall aims to deflect

Scientists Design a ‘Storm Wall’ in Space to Shield Earth From Solar Chaos

A Boston University engineer has published a peer-reviewed design for a six-spacecraft system that could cut the intensity of a major geomagnetic storm in half — the first serious proposal to actively

June 3, 2026

Artificial Intelligence·News·Science·Technology

Blue Origin New Glenn rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in 2026

Blue Origin CEO Vows New Glenn Will Fly Again in 2026, But NASA Warns Launchpad Rebuild Could Take Until 2028

Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp says the company will fly its New Glenn rocket before the end of 2026 despite last week's catastrophic pad explosion, as NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman warns launchpad

June 2, 2026

News·Science·Technology

Typhoon Chanmi weather radar track toward Kyushu Japan June 2026

Typhoon Chanmi Forces 200,000 to Evacuate in Japan’s Kagoshima as Storm Targets Kyushu

Typhoon Chanmi has triggered Level-4 evacuation advisories for more than 200,000 residents in Kagoshima Prefecture as it tracks northeast toward Kyushu, leaving 16 injured and 47,000 homes without power across Japan.

June 2, 2026

News·Science

Aerial view of dense forest canopy representing Earth's estimated three trillion trees

Earth Has More Trees Than the Milky Way Has Stars. The Number Hiding Inside That Fact Is Far More Alarming.

The comparison has been circulating for years, turning up on classroom walls and science podcasts in equal measure: there are more trees on Earth than there are stars in the Milky Way.

May 31, 2026

News·Science

Close-up of Buzz Aldrin's bootprint in lunar regolith during the Apollo 11 Moon landing in 1969

Apollo’s Footprints on the Moon Will Survive a Million Years. Here’s What Science Actually Says.

The claim is one of the most satisfying facts in popular science: the bootprints left by the Apollo astronauts on the lunar surface in 1969 will still be sitting there a million

May 31, 2026

Science·Technology

SpaceCamp 1986 film theatrical poster featuring Lea Thompson Joaquin Phoenix and cast in NASA jumpsuits

SpaceCamp at 40: How Hollywood’s Most Cursed 1986 Film Became a Cultural Time Capsule Worth Revisiting

Forty years ago this June, a family adventure film opened in American theaters and vanished almost immediately, swallowed by grief, bad timing, and the still-raw wound of a national tragedy. The film

May 31, 2026

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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

Deep-Sea Isopod’s Borrowed Bacterial Gene Slows Metabolism in Human Cells

ISS Astronauts Ordered Into Spacesuits as Air Leak Doubles on Russian Module

Uzbekistan Calls Start of Nuclear Power Plant Construction a Historic Day, Pledges More Projects

Bumblebees Can Tell Time: New Research Shows Insects Possess Cognitive Abilities Once Reserved for Vertebrates

Scientists Design a ‘Storm Wall’ in Space to Shield Earth From Solar Chaos

Blue Origin CEO Vows New Glenn Will Fly Again in 2026, But NASA Warns Launchpad Rebuild Could Take Until 2028

Typhoon Chanmi Forces 200,000 to Evacuate in Japan’s Kagoshima as Storm Targets Kyushu

Earth Has More Trees Than the Milky Way Has Stars. The Number Hiding Inside That Fact Is Far More Alarming.

Apollo’s Footprints on the Moon Will Survive a Million Years. Here’s What Science Actually Says.

SpaceCamp at 40: How Hollywood’s Most Cursed 1986 Film Became a Cultural Time Capsule Worth Revisiting

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

Ahmadis in Bangladesh face fresh threat of persecution

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