Climate Change Made Hurricane Melissa 4 Times More Likely, Study Suggests

Unusually warm ocean temperatures fueled one of the worst hurricanes on record. New research finds climate change increased the storm’s likelihood. [...]

Research roundup: 2,400-year-old clay puppets; this is your brain on Klingon

Also: testing the efficacy of WWI "dazzle" camouflage; how the male blue-lined octopus survives deadly mating ritual. [...]

Commercial fusion power companies moving toward test systems

A tokamak moves forward as two companies advance plans for stellarators. [...]

Doctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinson’s Research Among Scientists Purged From NIH

Leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency, were swept up Tuesday in the Trump administration's latest firing blitz. [...]

Google upgrades Gemini for Workspace allowing it to pull data from multiple apps to create Docs, Sheets, Slides and more

Lest you thought Microsoft would have all the fun introducing new AI features for white collar enterprise work this week with its Copilot Cowork announcement yesterday, Google is here to take back the [...]

Claude’s new Learning mode will prompt students to answer questions on their own

According to a recent Digital Education Council survey, as many as 86 percent of university students globally use artificial intelligence to assist with their coursework. It’s a staggering statistic [...]

A 32-bit processor made with an atomically thin semiconductor

It's slow and inefficient, but the semiconductor is only one molecule thick. [...]

New report warns of critical climate risks in Arab region

Foundations of daily life are being pushed to the brink by human-caused warming. [...]

Why Jolly Ranchers Are Banned in the UK but Not the US

Crude oil-derived substances in the candy have been linked to health problems—and the regulations that have allowed their use in the US are now in Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s crosshairs. [...]