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Scientists at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory report that a seasonal forecast system predicts with high skill how much sunlight will reach the southwestern United States in spring. They…
A 4,000-km field survey of the arid and semi-arid grasslands of northern China reports that plant and soil-microbe diversity do not thin out smoothly as the land gets drier. Instead the survey finds…
A critical flaw in Rejetto HFS, open-source software for sharing files from a computer over the web, is now being exploited, according to VulnCheck, the company that assigned the flaw its identifier.…
US natural gas production reached a record high in July 2026, the US Energy Information Administration reported in its latest Natural Gas Monthly, released Sept. 30, 2026. Gross withdrawals, the full…
Sea ice off Utqiaġvik, Alaska, is projected to keep thinning through the rest of this century, and the spring bowhead whaling that crews conduct from that ice is the activity most affected, according…
When light bends azobenzene from its straight shape into its kinked one, the molecule's first move is a twist about the two carbon-nitrogen bonds that attach its rings to the bridge at its center.…
Astronomers have detected a faint radio source at the position of SN 2025ulz, the exploded star that appeared in the same patch of sky, at the same moment, as a weak gravitational-wave candidate in…
The World Health Organization released new Global Health Estimates on Oct. 2, covering 2000 to 2023. WHO puts global life expectancy at 73.3 years at the end of that period, a tenth of a year below…
A group at the University of Oxford has published a way to map the contacts a disease risk variant makes with nearby genes, one copy of each chromosome at a time and down to single DNA letters. The…
Bangladesh's health directorate and its national epidemiology institute have published the national tally for what they describe as the country's largest recorded measles outbreak. Nationwide…
Dell has released version 1.18.0 of its Container Storage Modules software, closing two flaws the company rates at 10.0, the top of the CVSS scale vendors use to rank severity. Dell classifies both…
Deepayan Banik and colleagues report that a planet keeping one face permanently toward its star can end up with a night side warmer than its day side, if the starlight it receives rises and falls as…