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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

NOAA GOES-19 satellite imagery showing the fireball flash detected over Cape Cod Bay on May 30, 2026, when a meteor exploded over Massachusetts

Meteor Explodes Over Massachusetts, Unleashing Sonic Boom Heard From Delaware to Montreal

BOSTON — The afternoon sky above New England was calm and unremarkable on Saturday when the ground began to shake and a thunderclap no storm could explain rolled across Massachusetts, Rhode Island,

May 31, 2026

News·Science

Blue Origin New Glenn rocket standing at Launch Complex 36, Cape Canaveral

Blue Origin’s New Glenn Rocket Explodes in Fireball During Cape Canaveral Test

An uncrewed Blue Origin New Glenn rocket exploded in a fireball during a hotfire test at Cape Canaveral on Thursday night, with no injuries, in a costly setback for Jeff Bezos's race

May 29, 2026

Business·News·Science

NIST physicist Stephan Schlamminger examines the torsion balance used to measure the gravitational constant Big G

Newton’s Gravitational Constant Still Defies Physicists 340 Years Later as NIST Decade-Long Experiment Deepens the Mystery

For three and a half centuries, the number that governs how every apple falls and every planet wheels around the sun has remained a riddle. Now, after ten years bent over a

May 27, 2026

Astronomy·Science·Technology

A super Blue Moon rises over the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco on August 30, 2023

Rare Blue Moon will rise on May 31 as the second full moon of May 2026 joins a four-planet sky show

A rare calendar Blue Moon, the second full moon of May 2026, will rise on May 30 and reach full phase on May 31, accompanied by Venus, Jupiter, Mars and Saturn in

May 27, 2026

Astronomy·News·Science

NASA artist concept of Phase 3 of the Moon Base showing habitats, rovers and astronauts on the lunar south pole

NASA awards nearly $1 billion in contracts to Blue Origin, Astrolab and Lunar Outpost to build the foundations of a Moon Base

NASA awarded nearly $1 billion in fixed-price contracts to Blue Origin, Astrolab, Lunar Outpost and Firefly Aerospace on Tuesday to deliver the first rovers, landers and scout drones for a permanent lunar

May 27, 2026

News·Science·Technology

Illustration of Asgard archaea microbe as the common ancestor of all eukaryotes including plants, animals and fungi

Why Scientists Now Believe Every Plant, Animal and Fungus Descends From the Asgard Archaea

For decades, the question of where complex life began on Earth was framed in cautious terms. Biologists could see, in cells with a nucleus, an elegant piece of machinery built for division

May 25, 2026

News·Science

Young Stephen Hawking at the University of Cambridge in the 1960s, before his rise as a theoretical physicist

Stephen Hawking’s Father Feared He Was Wasting His Life, Secret Diaries Reveal

CAMBRIDGE, England. The young man who would one day rewrite humanity’s understanding of black holes was, in the eyes of his own father, drifting. He wandered the family home without ambition. He

May 25, 2026

News·Science

An anatomical illustration of the human brain showing the hypothalamus and surrounding regions

Hidden Brain Protein Drives Aging, and a Simple Amino Acid May Reverse Its Effects in Old Mice

Chinese researchers at Xiamen University say declining levels of a brain protein called Menin in the hypothalamus drive aging, and that the amino acid D-serine reversed cognitive decline in old mice.

May 25, 2026

Health·News·Science

NASA Landsat 9 satellite image of meltwater ponds forming on the Greenland Ice Sheet in July 2025, evidence of accelerating ice melt

Sea Level Rise Is Accelerating, and Scientists Now Fully Explain Why

A new study from the Chinese Academy of Sciences fully accounts for accelerating sea level rise, finding ocean warming and ice melt have nearly doubled the rate of rise since the 1960s.

May 24, 2026

Climate·News·Science

Cross-section of a 2.7 billion-year-old Tumbiana stromatolite from Pilbara Craton, Western Australia, showing finely layered microbial structure

Asteroid Crater in South Korea Yields Stromatolites That Hint at How Life Began on Earth

Korean geologists have found 20,000-year-old stromatolites buried beneath a meteorite crater, evidence that asteroid strikes may have built hydrothermal nurseries where early life on Earth could take hold.

May 24, 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

Meteor Explodes Over Massachusetts, Unleashing Sonic Boom Heard From Delaware to Montreal

Blue Origin’s New Glenn Rocket Explodes in Fireball During Cape Canaveral Test

Newton’s Gravitational Constant Still Defies Physicists 340 Years Later as NIST Decade-Long Experiment Deepens the Mystery

Rare Blue Moon will rise on May 31 as the second full moon of May 2026 joins a four-planet sky show

NASA awards nearly $1 billion in contracts to Blue Origin, Astrolab and Lunar Outpost to build the foundations of a Moon Base

Why Scientists Now Believe Every Plant, Animal and Fungus Descends From the Asgard Archaea

Stephen Hawking’s Father Feared He Was Wasting His Life, Secret Diaries Reveal

Hidden Brain Protein Drives Aging, and a Simple Amino Acid May Reverse Its Effects in Old Mice

Sea Level Rise Is Accelerating, and Scientists Now Fully Explain Why

Asteroid Crater in South Korea Yields Stromatolites That Hint at How Life Began on Earth

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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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