Building a massive dam between Alaska and Russia could prevent AMOC collapse, scientists say
Building a giant dam between Russia and Alaska might save a key Atlantic current that is crucial to regulating the climate in northern Europe. However,...
Month : April 2026
New York City is at major risk of flooding that could leave 4.4 million people exposed to extreme damage, study finds
Eight U.S. East Coast cities are at high or very high risk of “extreme” flood damage based on current scenarios, with New York and New...
‘Brain-eating’ amoebas are nearly always fatal. New treatments may change that.
On a hot Saturday in San Antonio over 10 years ago, an 8-year-old boy was rushed to the hospital after days of fever, headache, vomiting...
Indigenous Americans’ DNA reveals how natural selection affected people who moved into Earth’s ‘final frontier’
Humans migrated to South America in three distinct waves over the course of thousands of years, a new large-scale analysis of Indigenous Americans’ DNA reveals....
Claude Mythos explained: Is Anthropic’s most powerful AI model really too dangerous to release to the public?
Anthropic’s unveiling of its Claude Mythos Preview model alongside Project Glasswing is prompting widespread scrutiny as experts warn that the artificial intelligence (AI) system’s capabilities...
What you’ll need to see May 2026’s night sky
Although May hasn’t quite got as much going on as the excitement of April, there’s still a lot to look at in the night sky...
‘A landmark moment for the field’: FDA approves first-ever gene therapy for inherited deafness
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first-ever gene therapy for inherited deafness. The therapy, called Otarmeni, is approved to treat a...
‘Strong, undeniable public examples of something positive’: Astronaut Chris Hadfield on why Artemis II hit him hard, the importance of spaceflight, and why we need to send a guitar to the moon
With Artemis II complete, NASA is pushing ahead with plans to build a permanent human habitat on the moon, and retired Canadian Space Agency astronaut...
‘Kraken’ octopus that lived at the time of the dinosaurs was a 62-foot-long apex predator of the ocean
The findings push back the oldest known octopuses by around 5 million years. (Image credit: Yohei Utsuki: Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Hokkaido University)...
‘What are the odds’: Superbright comet and exploding fireball meteor form near-perfect X over European castle
A dramatic photo shows the extremely unlikely moment when a blazing fireball meteor photobombed a contender for the “Great Comet of 2026” as it shone...