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Human-Caused Warming Played β€˜Very Strong’ Role in Himalayan Floods, Report Finds

16 September 2026 at 19:00
Rising temperatures contributed to the disaster by destabilizing the permafrost and ice around the collapsed rock, scientists concluded.

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The widened channel of the Bhote Koshi River in Nepal after the flash flooding last month.

Trump Administration Moves to Gut a Core Endangered Species Protection

16 September 2026 at 18:04
An internal memo reinterprets the law so that only the intentional killing of animals, not collateral harm, is illegal.

Β© Robert F. Bukaty/Associated Press, photographed under NOAA permit # 21371

A North Atlantic right whale off Cape Cod, Mass., in 2023. Only about 380 remain on the planet.

Fiji Declares a National Emergency as H.I.V. Cases Skyrocket

16 September 2026 at 17:44
Surging drug use has contributed to an epidemic in the Pacific island nation, where one in 60 adults is estimated to be living with the virus.

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An H.I.V. awareness poster displayed in Suva, Fiji, in April. The nation recorded more than 2,000 new cases in 2025, 16 times as many as in 2019, officials said.

Rising Seas Are Gobbling Up Beaches Around the World. A.I. Might Restore Them.

17 September 2026 at 13:07
An experiment with roots at M.I.T. used A.I. and satellite images to grow a coastline in the Maldives. More projects are planned for Boston and Miami.

Massive Black Holes May Have Started as Little Red Dots

16 September 2026 at 11:47
A new simulation suggests little red dots, unusually compact objects seen in photos from space, might be one stage in the evolution of black holes.

Β© NASA, ESA, CSA, V. Kokorev (University of Texas at Austin), A. Pagan (STScI)

So-called little red dots, astronomical objects that date back about a billion years after the Big Bang, may be precursors to black holes, a new study has found.

Mothers’ Intrusive Thoughts Are Mostly Benign. Lindsay Clancy’s Case Is an Exception.

17 September 2026 at 15:15
Experts say that after childbirth, intrusive thoughts are common and mostly benign. Lindsay Clancy’s story provides a disturbing exception.

Β© Pool photo by Greg Derr

The Liftoff Scenario That Terrifies A.I. Doomsayers

16 September 2026 at 05:02
β€œRecursive self-improvement” is the idea that artificial intelligence could learn to build and train itself, creating exponential new progress β€” and risk.

Β© Alana Paterson for The New York Times

Jeff Clune a computer scientist and researcher at the University of British Columbia in Canada and founder of Recursive Superintelligence, one of two $4-billion start-ups chasing recursive self-intelligence.

Is There Anything Google’s Fruit Fly Brain Can’t Do?

16 September 2026 at 09:37
Models of the insect’s nervous system have been trained to solve a Rubik’s Cube, play video games and even parallel park a car.

A T. Rex Walked Here: Teacher Finds Rare Footprints in North Dakota

15 September 2026 at 17:19
Kent Hups, a high school science teacher in Colorado, discovered a 23-foot trackway of fossilized dinosaur footprints, which offer a glimpse of how the apex predator moved 66 million years ago.
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