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Climate Front
Extreme weather, carbon pledges and the shifting energy mix.
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Earth has captured a new mini moon — but it won't stick around for long
Earth has caught itself a new mini-moon, and QQ8 is sticking around for Christmas.
ScienceUnited Kingdom
The economic benefits of the covid vaccines may be double what we thought
The global health and economic benefits of the covid-19 vaccines were thought to have reached up to $38 trillion in their first year, but a new analysis sugges…
ScienceUnited Kingdom
Tomb in Siberia reveals humans were using cannabis 2800 years ago
Psychoactive compounds have been found in a hair from a Scythian tomb in Siberia, providing the earliest direct evidence of cannabis being used as a drug
BusinessAmericas
Goldman Sachs Traders See Surge in Calls as AI Stock Selloff Deepens
The stock-market trading desk at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is being flooded with calls from investors trying to get a sense of how much deeper Thursday’s techno…
ScienceAmericas
On this day in space! Nov. 5, 2002: NASA's Galileo spacecraft flies by Jupiter moon Almathea only to find it's a 'pile of icy rubble less dense than water'
On Nov. 5, 2002, NASA's old Galileo spacecraft flew by a small moon called Amalthea and made a surprising find. Here's why it mattered.
WorldAfrica
Civil society groups demand methane crackdown ahead of 2027 elections
The groups said Nigeria’s methane regulations have achieved limited results due to weak enforcement, poor emissions disclosure and inadequate community partici…
ScienceAmericas
These are the doctors and scientists elected in the 2026 midterms
Learn more about the scientific community coming into office in January
ScienceAmericas
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is changing the color of the ocean
The ocean’s blue and green hues near the infamous zone of debris have gotten brighter over the past 20 years, satellite data show
WorldAustralia
How Democrats used the midterms to turn affordability concerns into ‘green populism’
From energy prices to datacenters, climate became a cost-of-living issue – and a winning one Climate-forward Democrats swept into power on Tuesday night as a b…
ScienceAmericas
You don't have to go to the moon to see Earth differently: Artemis II astronaut Victor Glover on what really matters
After a record-breaking journey around the moon, Artemis 2 astronaut Victor Glover explains why you don't need to travel into space to see Earth differently.
ScienceUnited Kingdom
Google shouldn’t be pressuring schools to use its AI
Google has said schools can’t have access to its search engine without AI, even in schools where AI use is being banned. Columnist Jacob Aron says the tech gia…
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Evidence of active volcanoes on Mars may boost chances of finding life
Recent fractures on the surface of Mars and gases detected by an orbiter probe provide some of the strongest evidence yet that the planet is volcanically active
WorldAfrica
Africa demands debt relief and direct finance at COP31 Climate Summit
The African Group of Negotiators on Climate Change (AGN) has noted that the world’s transition away from fossil fuels cannot be called "just" if low- and middl…
AIAmericas
Axiom Math wants to keep AI slop out of mathematics
As AI floods math with unchecked proofs, Axiom Math is betting on verification. The startup’s AI agents just formally verified the Stacks Project, one of the f…
WorldAfrica
Beyond the outrage: Who remembers the victims when the headlines disappear?
The death of a person under controversial circumstances often becomes a national conversation. News reports emerge, social media is flooded with reactions, fam…
ScienceUnited Kingdom
Microplastics may be changing the colour of the Pacific Ocean
Satellites show that the ocean around a gyre of plastic detritus in the Pacific is brightening and changing colour, with the most likely explanation being micr…
ScienceAmericas
NASA's Voyager 1 probe bounces back from communications glitch in interstellar space
NASA's Voyager 1 probe is back in communication after the 49-year-old spacecraft briefly fell silent last month, during its interstellar-space mission.
ScienceAmericas
Midwestern City Lights
City lights from the Midwestern United States to the East Coast sparkle across the landscape a couple of hours before sunrise on Oct. 18, 2026. Major urban are…
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NASA Astronauts to Answer Questions from Florida Students
Students in Florida will hear from NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney as they answer prerecorded STEM questions while aboard the International Sp…
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Earth photobombs spacewalking Canadian astronaut | Space photo of the day for Nov. 5, 2026
Canadian astronaut Joshua Kutryk poses for a photo mid-spacewalk on Oct. 29, 2026.