Astronomers discover mysterious 10-sided cloud structure at Saturn’s south pole

A mysterious giant 10-sided pattern of clouds has recently formed around Saturn’s south pole, a new study finds. This newfound “decagon” joins the bizarre colossal hexagon seen for decades at…

Loss and damage fund urged to hold emergency meeting on Nepal

After last week’s catastrophic flash flooding caused hundreds of deaths and an estimated $5 billion of destruction in Nepal, some board members of the UN’s new loss and damage fund…

Decades after 9/11, toxic dust and PTSD may be accelerating brain aging among first responders

Hundreds of first responders have told me they remember exactly how they felt during the World Trade Center attacks, even 25 years on. They tell me that they remember not…

From Belém to Antalya – gains, gaps and challenges for a new Just Transition Mechanism 

Could a new mechanism to help countries transition to a cleaner, safer and fairer world be one of the main deliverables from the COP31 climate summit in Türkiye this November?…

Analisa Lazaro-Côté | Predictors of thermal thresholds in climate-impacted fish – Functional Ecologists

In our latest ‘Behind the Paper’ blog post, author Analisa Lazaro-Côté – a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Manitoba – discusses the article “Transcriptional breakpoints as predictors of thermal…

9,000-year-old mining workshop unearthed at Çayönü Hill

Archaeologists excavating one of Türkiye’s most important Neolithic settlements have uncovered an approximately 9,000-year-old mining workshop, providing striking new evidence of specialised copper and malachite production in prehistoric communities. The…

Two astronauts replace ISS camera and docking aid on 6th-ever all-female spacewalk (video)

Two astronauts replaced a spacecraft docking aid and a video camera during a successful spacewalk outside of the International Space Station on Tuesday (Sept. 1). NASA astronaut Jessica Meir and…

Preventing wildfires must be the priority

Gill Einhorn is head of the Forest Future Alliance and Natalie Çilem is community lead of the Global Wildfire Leadership Network. Wildfires have devastated communities across the world this summer,…

Here’s how to navigate your options and find the right clinician

As a mental health nurse practitioner who sees patients both in person and via telehealth, I’m often struck by just how many of my patients would not have received any…

Politicizing science: Trump’s pick to head the FDA—Heidi Overton— promotes an ‘alternative system’ of ‘conservative-based science’

President Trump’s nominee to run the Food and Drug Administration once called for conservatives to build their own scientific journals and steer research funding toward right-wing policy goals, as Scientific American’s…