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A satellite view of three hurricanes surrounding the Hawaiian islands.

WeatherJune 1, 2026

Why do hurricanes come in seasons?

Hurricane season is shaped by the ingredients needed to produce a tropical cyclone, and this year the Atlantic may be relatively quiet

Meghan Bartels

An image of a health worker wearing protective equipment crouching beside the coffin outside a home in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Public HealthJune 1, 2026

A new Ebola outbreak has killed hundreds—and the U.S. response is alarming experts

A deadly Ebola outbreak is spreading fast—and U.S. cuts to foreign aid are making it worse

Rachel Feltman, Tanya Lewis, Fonda Mwangi, Alex Sugiura

An engineer working on magnets in an open section of the Large Hadron Collider.

Particle PhysicsMay 31, 2026

These exotic particles could break physics

‘Penguin’ decays from CERN’s latest Large Hadron Collider experiment hint at weird new physics

Elizabeth Gibney, Nature magazine

Entrance of The National Science Foundation (NSF) in Washington D.C.

Society & PolicyMay 31, 2026

Top U.S. science funder slows research grants to universities

It's not clear why the National Science Foundation may be limiting funding to certain U.S. universities

Dan Garisto, Nature magazine

A 3D computer generated model of Cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated protein 4.

BiotechMay 30, 2026

New protein-folding AI predicts the structures of 1 billion proteins

The new open-source atlas, generated by an AI tool called ESMFold2, vastly increases the known protein universe

Ewen Callaway, Miryam Naddaf, Nature magazine

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy Messier 88 (M88).

GalaxiesMay 30, 2026

NASA’s Hubble captures gorgeous new photo of a spiral galaxy as it wanders through the Virgo Cluster

Messier 88 is an active galaxy with a central supermassive black hole that is gobbling up gas and dust

Adam Kovac

A black-and-white photo of soldiers leaving a troop transport to wade into the ocean toward the beach where smoke rises

WeatherMay 29, 2026

How the success of D-Day hinged on a weather forecast

As General Dwight D. Eisenhower prepared for D-Day, he needed a forecast. The new movie Pressure shows the tense make-or-break weather prediction that led to the successful invasion of Europe that spelled the beginning of the end of World War II

Andrea Thompson

Red light fills a cleanroom machine used in semiconductor manufacturing, with reflective panels and mechanical parts arranged around a central platform.

ComputingMay 29, 2026

The AI boom has a memory problem

High-bandwidth memory keeps powerful AI chips fed with data, and demand for it helped Boise-based Micron briefly top $1 trillion

Ramin Skibba

3D rendering of a weight loss injection pen and a table scale

GLP-1 DrugsMay 29, 2026

New powerful GLP-1 drugs drop a lot of weight fast. How does that affect health?

New-generation GLP-1 drugs, such as retatrutide, are achieving higher rates of weight loss. How much weight is too much and too fast to lose?

Bethany Brookshire

A rocket blowing up on the pad in a giant orange fireball

SpacecraftMay 29, 2026

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket explodes in massive fireball, imperiling NASA moon missions

The latest flight of the New Glenn rocket was meant to prepare Blue Origin for a series of NASA-funded lunar voyages. Instead it ended before it began

Lee Billings

Climate ChangeMay 29, 2026

Europe’s deadly spring heat wave is obliterating temperature records

Unseasonably hot weather in Europe has already claimed at least 18 lives. And history shows more are likely on the way

Adam Kovac

A photograph of a giant spiral galaxy in deep space

The UniverseMay 29, 2026

What’s the biggest galaxy in the universe?

Deep surveys of the sky have turned up galaxies vastly larger than our own. Are there even bigger ones yet to be seen?

Phil Plait