A dangerous heatwave will impact a large swath of the US this week, bringing scorching temps during celebrations for America's 250th birthday.
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<p>Three companies will receive a total of $600 million to executive four moon landings, laying the groundwork for a planned crewed outpost on the surface</p>
<p>Temperatures in New York’s Central Park haven’t surpassed 100 degrees Fahrenheit since 2012; but that may be about to change</p>
The most comprehensive database ever compiled of how fast arachnids can run has shown how leg anatomy and evolutionary history influence spiders’ running speed
<p>A new model flags people at high risk of sudden cardiac death from a routine ECG—and reveals a warning sign in the heart’s electrical activity</p>
<p>How Emmy Noether's theorem uses the Lagrangian to provide a formula for calculating the quantity of symmetries in a system—like the orbit of planets.</p>
<p>The speedy machine displaces the U.S.’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s El Capitan at the top of the TOP500 rankings of the world’s fastest supercomputers</p>
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile is beginning its extraordinary survey of the southern sky, which will use the largest camera ever built to map the solar system, the galaxy and beyond
Astronomers have recently started looking for black holes bigger than galaxies. Brian Lacki explains how these “stupendously large black holes” might be used by alien civilisations, and what makes them such an intriguing possibility
<p>As Kew Botanic Gardens completes a scan of its collections, AI tools could help in the fight against biodiversity loss</p>
A heatwave developing across the eastern United States will bring daytime heat, high humidity and stifling overnight temperatures as Ben Rich explains.
<p>How much do our genes determine about our lives, and could they influence traits like risk-taking, antisocial behaviour or even violence? <strong>Ian Sample</strong> talks to <strong>Kathryn Paige Harden</strong>, 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 she explores how nature and nurture combine to influence our likelihood of committing crimes, and asks whether the ‘cause’ of our actions matters for how we think about culpability</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/audio/2026/jun/30/nature-nurture-genes-bad-behaviour-full-story-podcast">Continue reading...</a>
Brain recordings from newborns reveal the first neural evidence that humans are born with an innate sense of numbers
<em>Euplotes gigatrox</em>’s shape-shifting may reveal how early life learned to act in surprisingly complex ways.
<p>Researchers think people with greater muscle density in torso area, who are also less likely to die prematurely, are those who exercise more</p><p>People with strong chest and back muscles are less likely to have a heart attack or die prematurely, analysis using artificial intelligence suggests.</p><p>Researchers led by the University of Edinburgh used AI to examine hospital scans of 1,722 patients, aged mostly in their 50s, who had chest pain.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/30/strong-chest-back-less-likely-heart-attack-analysis">Continue reading...</a>
Gov. Ron DeSantis calls it a crackdown on "radical climate policies."
<p>This brilliant new image, taken by Europe’s Euclid space telescope, offers a preview of the kind of imaging that will be possible with NASA’s upcoming Roman telescope</p>
When standard leukaemia treatments failed, 13-year-old Alyssa Tapley was told she had only weeks left – but then she was offered an experimental procedure
New experiments show that octopuses can understand where an item is based solely on its reflection.
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Scientists estimate at least between 14 and 30 million insect species, not just six million.
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