Anthropic describes five cases where scientists in unnamed countries tried to use its Claude software for potentially nefarious work on viruses or toxins

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 36, September 2026. SignificanceDietary patterns today have diverged substantially from our hominin ancestors, with repercussions...

A charity in Powys provides the land while growers do the hard work, producing bumper crops for city childrenKilos and kilos of courgettes, cucumbers, tomatoes...

Across much of the U.S., people have little way to know when the air they breathe turns dangerous. Over recent decades, federal funding for public...

The Indian and Pacific oceans have been climatically linked for centuries, but scientists say that connection is now breaking down in an exceptional way. Ancient...

Rep. Mack Butler thought he had a deal with leading senators to keep the heart of reform legislation unanimously passed by the House. He was...

A bill that would have capped Alabama Power’s profits and forced the company to undergo formal rate case hearings for the first time in four...

A strong El Niño is raising the odds of an active winter storm season—and the Floridians most likely to die in a tornado live in...

The complacency is staggering: just another hot summer, a flooded street, a crop failure. We are accepting this extraordinary deterioration as normalRecently, I overheard a...

Experts believe one-third of wildfires in France are set deliberately, with arson the biggest single cause of forest fires last yearOne is a boy of...

Ancient rocks from Western Australia suggest water was reaching deep inside Earth more than three billion years ago, long before modern plate tectonics may have...

While holidaymakers have maintained ‘super positive attitudes’, average snow depths measured since 1954 have declined by nearly 20%If you freeze it, they will come. For...

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 11 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02732-8Heatwaves threaten both physical and mental health, yet physical heat exposure and emotional responses often diverge. The...

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 11 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02752-4Climate extremes influence migration, but their long-term and compounding impacts are understudied. The authors show that associations...

Homeowners in Hispanic and Black communities nationwide are paying a disproportionate share of skyrocketing home insurance costs, according to a recent report. The disparities leave...

One-fifth of data sets intended to support replication breached privacy standards, study finds

Charity urges gardeners in England to swap thirsty brassicas for drought-tolerant cropsThey are an integral part of the British Sunday roast – but cauliflowers are...

A review of court records in Winston County shows criminal prosecutions over trash debt have spanned decades. The Southern Poverty Law Center says the practice...

Federal agencies say opening these lands will reduce wildfire risks and make timber more accessible. Experts, however, say the government is contradicting itself.By Sarah MattalianMichigan’s...

With Gov. Wes Moore’s reelection less than two months away, Maryland’s environmental community is asking Annapolis to slam the brakes on rapid data center growth...

‘It has been a really cool opportunity to see people who maybe don’t typically engage with wildlife biology rally behind us,’ a researcher behind Fat...

Abstract Many regions worldwide, including Subtropical South America (SSA), face significant challenges from convective systems that produce severe weather. However, limited research exists on how...

Abstract Climate models with identical anthropogenic forcings simulate different historical warming, mainly because aerosol forcing is poorly constrained. The role of uncertainty in regional aerosol...

Abstract The role of inherited lithospheric structures in active rift seismicity and magma intrusion remains a key uncertainty in continental breakup dynamics. We investigate the...