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NASA satellite map showing sea surface temperature anomalies across the Pacific Ocean during an El Nino event with warmer-than-normal waters in the central and eastern Pacific

El Niño ‘Inside the House,’ WMO Warns as Pakistan Floods Kill Over 100, Europe Burns

The WMO warned Thursday that El Niño has arrived with Pacific temperatures 2.9°C above normal. Pakistan's monsoon death toll has exceeded 100 while wildfires spread across southern Europe, as UN chief Guterres

August 1, 2026

by Miranda Novell

NASA Curiosity rover panorama showing vast field of honeycomb-like polygon fractures in Valle Grande region of Mars

NASA’s Curiosity Rover Discovers Sea of Honeycomb Fractures on Mars

NASA's Curiosity rover discovered a vast honeycomb fracture field on Mars in June 2026. Scientists at JPL have proposed three formation theories, none yet confirmed, while the rover's 14-year mission continues to rewrite what Mars looked like billions of years

July 30, 2026

by Jennifer Hicks

CRISPR base editing diagram showing viral vector gene delivery to DNA

6-Year-Old Died in Unauthorized Chinese CRISPR Trial. Her Death Was Concealed for 14 Months.

A 6-year-old with Snijders Blok-Campeau syndrome died in March 2025 after an unauthorized CRISPR brain surgery

Older adults queuing for registration at a community health centre in China

China’s Outpatient Insurance Reform Cut Inequality but Left a Two-Tier Care Divide

A new study in Scientific Reports finds China's outpatient pooling reform cut pro-rich inequality in doctor

Artist's conception of the view from the surface of super-Earth exoplanet GJ 3378b or Gliese 3378b

A Potentially Habitable World 25 Light-Years Away Is Now Half as Massive as Scientists Thought

New measurements from McDonald Observatory halve the mass of GJ 3378b a habitable-zone super-Earth 25 light-years away making it more likely rocky than gas-wrapped. The planet sits at the cosmic shoreline where

July 3, 2026

Astronomy·News·Science

IQM Quantum Computers ticker IQMX displayed on Nasdaq Tower in Times Square New York

IQM Lists on Nasdaq at $1.9 Billion, Becoming Europe’s First Public Quantum Company

IQM Quantum Computers listed on Nasdaq Thursday at a $1.9 billion valuation, becoming Europe's first publicly traded quantum company after raising 198 million euros via SPAC. The company's own filings warn that

July 3, 2026

News·Science·Technology

Artist illustration of WD 1856 b a giant planet orbiting a white dwarf star detected by the James Webb Space Telescope

Webb Detects the First Atmosphere on a Planet That Survived Its Star’s Death

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected methane and cloud particles in the atmosphere of WD 1856 b, a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting a dead star 80 light-years away, the first atmospheric measurement

July 3, 2026

Astronomy·News·Science

Medical illustration of a multipolar neuron showing cell body dendrites and axon the type found in the motor cortex disrupted by Huntington's disease

Scientists Identify and Repair the Brain Circuit Silenced by Huntington’s Disease in Mice

An international team led by UC San Diego identified VIP inhibitory neurons that go quiet early in Huntington's disease and showed that restoring them in mice improved motor learning for days after

July 3, 2026

Health·News·Science

Artist illustration of exoplanet Kepler-1649c orbiting in the habitable zone of its red dwarf host star similar to the configuration of GJ 3378b

Astronomers Find That a Nearby Habitable-Zone Planet Is Half the World They Thought

A revised analysis using four precision spectrographs has cut the mass of a nearby habitable-zone planet nearly in half, repositioning it as a likely rocky world and reopening a question scientists had

July 3, 2026

Astronomy·News·Science

Microscopy image of SpudCell the first synthetic cell built from non-living chemicals at the University of Minnesota

Scientists Built the First Synthetic Cell From Scratch, and Biology Is Not Sure It Agrees

Scientists at the University of Minnesota built SpudCell, the first synthetic structure assembled entirely from non-living chemicals to complete a full biological life cycle including division. The preprint has not been peer-reviewed

July 3, 2026

News·Science

Nematostella vectensis sea anemone used in CARDIB antiviral immunity research Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Sea Anemones Suppress Their Own Immune Response to Fight Off Viruses, a Study Finds

Hebrew University researchers found that a protein called CARDIB suppresses sea anemone immunity yet is essential for viral defense the opposite of what scientists predicted. The study suggests evolution built multiple distinct

July 3, 2026

News·Science

A researcher adjusts instruments on an optics table in a quantum physics laboratory at the National Research Council of Canada

A Quantum Sound Device Could Someday Communicate Where Radio and Light Cannot

Physicists at McGill University generated controllable quantum phonon bursts by pushing electrons through a 2D crystal at near-absolute-zero, defying existing theory. The work, published in Physical Review Letters, points toward future communications

July 3, 2026

News·Science·Technology

A doctor consults with a patient on cancer treatment options

An Immune Cell Meant to Fight Cancer Gets Reprogrammed by Tumors to Help Them Instead

Tel Aviv University researchers found that macrophages, the immune cells that clear dead cancer cells, get reprogrammed to stimulate tumor blood vessel growth instead of fighting cancer. The Effero-seq technology used to

July 3, 2026

Health·News·Science

Researchers at Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences mapped blood cell formation in embryonic yolk sac before gastrulation

Chinese Scientists Find Human Blood Forms Before the Embryo Takes Shape

A Chinese research team publishing in Nature has found that blood cell formation begins in the yolk sac before gastrulation, earlier than science has documented. The team created the first spatial map

July 2, 2026

Health·News·Science

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El Niño ‘Inside the House,’ WMO Warns as Pakistan Floods Kill Over 100, Europe Burns

NASA’s Curiosity Rover Discovers Sea of Honeycomb Fractures on Mars

6-Year-Old Died in Unauthorized Chinese CRISPR Trial. Her Death Was Concealed for 14 Months.

China’s Outpatient Insurance Reform Cut Inequality but Left a Two-Tier Care Divide

A Potentially Habitable World 25 Light-Years Away Is Now Half as Massive as Scientists Thought

IQM Lists on Nasdaq at $1.9 Billion, Becoming Europe’s First Public Quantum Company

Webb Detects the First Atmosphere on a Planet That Survived Its Star’s Death

Scientists Identify and Repair the Brain Circuit Silenced by Huntington’s Disease in Mice

Astronomers Find That a Nearby Habitable-Zone Planet Is Half the World They Thought

Scientists Built the First Synthetic Cell From Scratch, and Biology Is Not Sure It Agrees

Sea Anemones Suppress Their Own Immune Response to Fight Off Viruses, a Study Finds

A Quantum Sound Device Could Someday Communicate Where Radio and Light Cannot

An Immune Cell Meant to Fight Cancer Gets Reprogrammed by Tumors to Help Them Instead

Chinese Scientists Find Human Blood Forms Before the Embryo Takes Shape

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Ahmadis in Bangladesh face fresh threat of persecution

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