The Rosalia Beetle: Europe’s Sapphire-Colored Jewel Fights for Survival
The Rosalia longhorn beetle, a brilliant blue saproxylic insect, faces extinction across Europe due to dead wood removal and climate change. Can conservation save it?
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Beyond the Dust: Families Describe Daily Health Challenges Near the Salton Sea
How toxic dust from California’s shrinking Salton Sea is triggering asthma and lung disease in children—and what families are doing to survive.
Trump Admin’s Kratom Ban: A Win for Allies in Disguise
The Trump administration’s ban on synthetic kratom looks like a win for public safety, but critics say it’s a lucrative gift to natural kratom companies that lobbied for it. Inside the political deal.
SpudCell: Scientists Create a Cell With Most Hallmarks of Life
SpudCell, a synthetic cell with most hallmarks of life, blurs the line between chemistry and biology. Learn why it was built, whether it’s alive, and what comes next.
Webb Reveals How a Jupiter-Like Planet Survived Its Star’s Death
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals how a Jupiter-like planet survived its star’s death, migrated to a tight orbit around a white dwarf, and what this means for Earth’s future.
Nobody’s Talking About July 2026’s Sky: A Comet, Saturn’s Tilt, and the Milky Way
July 2026 skywatching tips from NASA: a predawn planetary meetup, returning Comet 13P/Olbers, prime Milky Way views, and Saturn’s rings at a new angle. No telescope required for most events.
TESS Finds a Planet Using Ripples in Spacetime—A First
NASA’s TESS mission has discovered a super-Jupiter planet using relativistic beaming for the first time, opening a new method to find distant worlds hidden from traditional transit searches.
NASA’s New Robotic Moon Missions Pave Way for 2029 Lunar Base
NASA announced three robotic moon missions to scout water ice, test 3D printing, and shield radiation for a planned 2029 lunar base.
India’s Driest June in a Decade Threatens Farms, but Government Stockpiles Offer a Cushion
India recorded its driest June in a decade, threatening kharif crops like rice and soybeans. The government says grain stockpiles are adequate to prevent shortages.
The Vera Rubin Telescope Begins Its Epic 10-Year Survey of the Cosmos
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory begins its 10-year survey of the southern sky, promising unprecedented discoveries in asteroids, dark matter, and supernovae. All data will be public.
Your Sedentary Lifestyle Is Quietly Breaking Your Cells’ Power Plants
Healthy but sedentary people show a coordinated drop in muscle mitochondrial function that may silently precede cancer, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s. Research reveals how to reverse it.
Paracetamol in Pregnancy: No Link to ADHD or Autism in Massive Sibling Study
A massive sibling study of over 120,000 children finds no link between prenatal paracetamol (acetaminophen/Tylenol) use and ADHD or autism, challenging earlier warnings.