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Cell & Microbiology Oct 10, 2026

How to meal prep safely: A microbiologist's step‑by‑step guide

Meal prepping is a great way to save money, spend less time in the kitchen and stick to a meal plan. But while cooking meals for the week ahead may be convenient, there can be real risks associated with eating bulk-cooked ...

Environment Oct 10, 2026

Isaias downgraded to post-tropical cyclone after landfall in Florida

Isaias weakened from a hurricane to a post-tropical cyclone early Saturday after it made landfall in northwestern Florida, where it lashed the U.S. Gulf Coast with heavy rain and strong winds, the National Hurricane Center ...

Environment Oct 10, 2026

Wildfire smoke shuts schools in Amazon's biggest city

The largest city in the Brazilian Amazon, Manaus, closed public schools on Friday as smoke from hundreds of wildfires blanketed the metropolis amid an intensifying El Niño event.

Environment Oct 9, 2026

Mountaineer: 'Tenzing biopic made me wonder what he would think if he could return to the mountain today'

Seventy-three years ago, Tenzing Norgay stood on top of Everest, known as Chomolungma in Tibetan, which roughly translates as "Goddess Mother of the World."

Plants & Animals Oct 9, 2026

Climate change drives new species combinations, prompting calls to rethink conservation goals

The fact that ecosystems change is nothing new. What is new, however, is the speed and scale at which new species communities are emerging as a result of climate change. Processes that once unfolded over centuries or even ...

Environment Oct 9, 2026

What a swordfish washing up on British Columbia's coast says about our changing oceans

Filmmaker and outdoorsperson Quinn Barabash recently made headlines when he found a swordfish carcass nearly two meters (6.6 feet) long on the remote shores of Haida Gwaii in northern British Columbia.

Astronomy Oct 9, 2026

Discovery marks the first detection of variable water clouds outside of the solar system

A Jupiter-sized world just 7.5 light-years away is cloudy, chemically complex and, it turns out, more like home than anyone expected. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, Brittany Miles, assistant astronomer at the University ...

Bio & Medicine Oct 9, 2026

New sensing method expands label-free particle detection beyond sensor surfaces

Finding a single cancer cell in a tube of blood is a bit like finding a needle in a haystack. As researchers seek to detect ever-smaller and rarer targets, from viruses to circulating tumor cells in blood, the demand for ...

Plants & Animals Oct 9, 2026

African antelopes spreading in New Mexico: How far could they go under climate change?

Majestic African antelopes known as gemsbok have been roaming the U.S. Southwest since their introduction in the 1960s and 1970s. Brought to New Mexico as a game species for hunting, gemsbok quickly settled in, expanding ...

Environment Oct 9, 2026

Data centers make heat all year long—here's how the ground can hold onto it until winter

You have probably noticed it on a hot summer day: A basement feels cool even when the air outside is baking. The ground does not heat up and cool down as fast as the air does. A few hundred feet down, it stays close to the ...

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