As COP31 co-host, Australia should make its polluters pay for climate damage

Harjeet Singh is the global convenor of the Fill the Fund campaign and founding director of the Satat Sampada Climate Foundation. Julie-Anne Richards is strategic campaign lead for the Make…

Archaeologists uncover extensive Bronze Age settlement on Hungary’s Somló Hill

Archaeologists from the Hungarian National Museum have uncovered evidence of an extensive Bronze Age settlement on Somló Hill, revealing a sophisticated community that flourished more than 3,000 years ago. Somló…

What’s on the climate calendar for October 2026?

This is a republication of October’s edition of The Climate Agenda – a subscriber-only newsletter designed to keep you informed of the key events, negotiations and announcements happening every month.…

Here’s how brain-eating amoebas may infect people

Naegleria amoebas’ exploration skills and crawling behaviors could help explain how the brain-eating variety travel into human brains.

Global health research makes America richer and healthier

Recently, a middle-aged woman came to see me in my ophthalmology clinic because her eyes felt gritty and uncomfortable. She had seen another doctor a month earlier who diagnosed her…

A video of a humpback whale and her dead calf reveals the animals’ bond

Scientists had a rare view of what could be humpback whale mourning when they spotted a female attending the body of a dead calf. The sighting suggests that baleen whales…

Paul Huber | Better together: Do siblings help each other cope with environmental stress? – Functional Ecologists

In this ‘Behind the paper’ blog post, author Paul Huber – a PhD student at the University of Bayreuth, Germany – discusses his article “Context-dependent joint buffering of abiotic stress…

How U.S. teamed with Russia to block global human AI weapons oversight

When diplomats gathered in Geneva to finalize the first international rules on lethal autonomous weapons, the United States and Russia spent the last day taking them apart. As The Washington…

RHIC Team Receives Prestigious DOE Secretary Achievement Award

Newswise — UPTON, N.Y. — A group of 11 physicists representing the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) Discovery and Innovation Team at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National…

Rare Samanid-Era ganch panels with Kufic inscriptions discovered in Bukhara

Archaeologists excavating the Shahristan archaeological site in Bukhara, Uzbekistan, have discovered fragments of an ornate ganch panel bearing Kufic inscriptions dating to the Samanid era. The discovery was made during…