Potentially dangerous heatwave to sweep across the eastern United States
A heatwave developing across the eastern United States will bring daytime heat, high humidity and stifling overnight temperatures as Ben Rich explains.
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Adversity can follow NZ kids to the classroom. Can schools make a difference?
By their eighth birthday, an estimated 9 in 10 New Zealand children will have experienced some form of serious adversity. They might have been neglected, grown up with family violence, lived through a separation or coped with a parent’s mental illness or substance use problem.
Earth Microbes Can Survive Individual Martian Hazards—and Evade Astronaut Immune Systems
Hopefully, we’re about to travel back to the Moon relatively soon. And while the original “giant leap for mankind” was taken by a human, Neil Armstrong brought a plethora of other forms of life along with him. Humans themselves are essentially walking ecosystems, and understanding how our microbial companions survive in the harsh environments of…
The little red galaxies that may be sending us neutrinos
Peering far into the distant, high-redshift universe, the James Webb telescope has discovered an abundance of small red galaxies known as the Little Red Dots. From their observations, astronomers believe that at least some of these galaxies may be home to growing supermassive black holes at their centers, objects which they believe are embedded in…
Starry Chandelier Cluster
This image released on June 26, 2026, features the globular cluster NGC 6723, sometimes called the Chandelier Cluster. Like its namesake, it sparkles with countless lights. However, each ‘lightbulb’ in this chandelier is an individual star 27,000 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius (the Archer). Globular clusters like NGC 6723 contain some of the oldest…
Vera C. Rubin Observatory Begins Its Long-Awaited All-Sky Survey
The telescope should spot billions of astronomical objects in the next 10 years. The post Vera C. Rubin Observatory Begins Its Long-Awaited All-Sky Survey appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
Nature or nurture: can genes make us behave ‘badly’? – podcast
How much do our genes determine about our lives, and could they influence traits like risk-taking, antisocial behaviour or even violence? Ian Sample talks to Kathryn Paige Harden, a behavioural geneticist and professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin who studies how genetic factors shape human behaviour. In her book Original Sin…
America 250: How has telescope technology evolved since the dawn of the U.S.?
Optical telescopes have come a long way in the past two-and-a-half centuries — from the homemade telescope of William Herschel to the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope.
Wimbledon 2026 LIVE: Serena Williams returns as emotional Iga Swiatek survives major scare
Britain’s Cameron Norrie, Emma Raducanu and Jack Draper were all out of Wimbledon before the end of the first day of play
Defence secretary updating MPs after Starmer unveils extra £15bn for armed forces – UK politics live
Starmer confirms rise but says defence spending cannot be ‘bottomless pit’ and MoD has to ‘spend better’Keir Starmer is speaking now.They are at Malloy Aeronautics, a firm that designs heavy-lift drones, and Starmer says this morning they showed him one of the heaviest drones he had ever seen.Last year, I made the decision in the…