Lunar silicon cavity
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 19, May 2026. SignificancePhysical conditions at the Moon’s permanently shadowed regions are ideal for constructing...
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Historic logbooks reveal spatial footprints of commercial whaling
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 19, May 2026. SignificanceCommercial whaling devastated bowhead whale populations, and recovery has been slow and...
Roots of resilience: the experts working to bolster apples against the climate crisis
Scientists are focusing on improving apples’ resilience after stressors like wild temperature swings and droughtTerence Robinson still remembers the Valentine’s Day Massacre – of 2015,...
COP30 roadmap to end deforestation will invite countries to draft domestic plans
A Brazil-led initiative that is pulling together a global roadmap to end deforestation will invite countries to produce their own voluntary pathways to halt and...
Ghost of long-extinct ancestor lives on in people today
Ancient Homo erectus teeth from China yield protein variants seen in Denisovans—and us
Fluffy ice could imperil spacecraft landings on ocean moons
Water erupted from cryovolcanoes may freeze into thick but fragile layers on Europa and Enceladus
MiR-155-driven loss of ICOSL and SOCS1 in EBV+ gastric cancers renders abundant cytotoxic T cells ineffective, enabling immune evasion
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 19, May 2026. SignificanceCytotoxic T cells [cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs)] play a critical role in...
A transparent universal credit system to incentivize peer review
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 19, May 2026.
New Paper Shows Surges of Concentrated Precipitation Can Lead to Dryer Landscapes
Snow and rain in the American West is concentrating at one of the highest rates in the world, researchers found, with implications for ecosystems, water...
New revelations show WA is putting Australia's climate targets at risk. Will Anthony Albanese do anything about it? | Clear Air
Premier Roger Cook has the prime minister’s implicit support but he’s making it harder for federal Labor to meet its much-vaunted climate targetsWant to get...
Social cognition and interpersonal violence
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 19, May 2026. SignificanceThis study advances theories of violence by bridging sociology and social psychology...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 19, May 2026.
Humans returned to Britain 500 years earlier than scientists thought after the last ice age
Humans may have returned to Britain far earlier than scientists once believed — not long after the last ice sheet began retreating. New evidence suggests...
Warmer Waters Bring Great White Sharks to Southern California
Southern California has seen a spike in great white shark sightings amid a spate of unseasonably warm spring weather. Experts expect to see more unusual...
'Irresponsible': backlash as Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan
Facility would require more power than entire state uses and suck up vast amount of water in drought-stricken areaA plan to create one of the...
Increasing atmospheric dryness and storms accelerates biomass turnover in Amazonian forests
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 13 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02639-4The carbon sink of tropical forests is in part constrained by biomass turnover. This study assesses aboveground...
Understanding and reducing the intention–behaviour gap in climate action
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 13 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02630-zClimate-friendly intentions do not always translate into action. This Review synthesizes evidence on the intrapersonal, social and...
Future changes in seasonal sea-level variability could reshape coastal ecosystems
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 13 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02631-yAssessments of coastal ecosystem resilience typically consider the impacts of annual mean sea-level rise, while increases in...
20 Years After 'An Inconvenient Truth,' Al Gore Grapples With the (Big) Wrinkle of Artificial Intelligence
The former vice president sat down with Inside Climate News to discuss data centers, Trump, China and the future of American democracy.By Lee HedgepethNASHVILLE, Tenn.—Former...
After a Century Powering Its Growth with Dams, Seattle Settles With Tribes That Lost Their River
As part of its relicensing of three dams on the Skagit River, Seattle City Light is paying $1.35 billion to three tribes, which will raise...
Wall Street is betting big on clean energy tech
When the NASDAQ opens on Wednesday morning, the exchange will include a new ticker symbol: FRVO. The company, Fervo Energy, is in the geothermal electricity...
Wall Street is betting big on clean energy tech
When the NASDAQ opens on Wednesday morning, the exchange will include a new ticker symbol: FRVO. The company, Fervo Energy, is in the geothermal electricity...
The EPA wants to shift monitoring of toxic coal ash to states
All across Georgia, on the banks of the Coosa, Chattahoochee, and Ocmulgee and other rivers, sit large lagoons filled with coal ash, the toxic residue...
David Attenborough is not just a national treasure: he is also the most radical person on TV | Jonathan Liew
The naturalist is venerated as a cuddly Paddington Bear, but he’s more than that. Don’t let the superficial backslaps obscure the political critique he makesThe...
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