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Gus the mounted Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton at Sotheby's New York ahead of record-breaking $50.1 million auction

T. rex ‘Gus’ Shatters Fossil Auction Record at $50.1 Million in New York

A 67-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex named Gus sold for $50.1 million at Sotheby’s New York, shattering the fossil auction record by more than $5 million and reigniting debate over private ownership of scientifically

July 15, 2026

by Akihito Muranaka

Tuktuks navigate floodwater on KM4 street in Mogadishu Somalia during El Nino flooding 2026

Record El Niño Threatens Famine and Floods Across East Africa and South Asia

At least 15 Rohingya refugees are dead and 10,000 displaced in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar as an intensifying El Niño threatens catastrophic flooding and famine across East Africa and South Asia. The US Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of a

July 14, 2026

by Amanda Graham

General Fusion's LM26 magnetized target fusion device under assembly at the company's Burnaby facility

General Fusion Becomes First Publicly Traded Nuclear Fusion Company in Nasdaq Debut

General Fusion began trading on Nasdaq Monday under the ticker GFUZ, climbing 40 percent on its

SpaceX Starship V3 rocket on the launch pad at Starbase before the May 22 test flight

SpaceX Starship Cleared to Fly Again After Booster Failed in Gulf of Mexico

The FAA has cleared SpaceX to resume Starship launches after identifying two failures that brought the

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

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

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T. rex ‘Gus’ Shatters Fossil Auction Record at $50.1 Million in New York

Record El Niño Threatens Famine and Floods Across East Africa and South Asia

General Fusion Becomes First Publicly Traded Nuclear Fusion Company in Nasdaq Debut

SpaceX Starship Cleared to Fly Again After Booster Failed in Gulf of Mexico

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.

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

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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