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On June 22, the village of Pissos in southwestern France recorded a temperature of 44.3 degrees Celsius, the hottest measurement ever confirmed in the country. It was not an isolated reading. Across Europe, from Portugal to Poland, an unprecedented heatwave had breached records in at least 22 countries, and the World Weather Attribution consortium was […]

In June 2026, an international team of scientists aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor (too) spent 14 days exploring the tropical midwaters off the coast of Brazil. They returned with 31 previously undescribed species, a rate of discovery that ranks among the fastest ever achieved in marine biology. “This is the largest habitat […]

The US Supreme Court on June 25 dealt a decisive blow to tens of thousands of Roundup cancer lawsuits, ruling 7-2 that federal pesticide law preempts state-level claims that Bayer’s Monsanto failed to warn consumers about the alleged cancer risks of glyphosate. The decision in Monsanto Company v. Durnell, written by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, held […]

June 26: M5.8 off Chiba rocks Tokyo An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 struck off the coast of eastern Chiba Prefecture at 12:46 p.m. on June 26, 2026. The Japan Meteorological Agency said the quake originated at a depth of about 50 km (31 miles). Strong shaking was felt across central Tokyo, with […]

One statistic captures the scale of what is happening in pharmacology. In 2025, Eli Lilly’s tirzepatide, sold as Mounjaro for diabetes and Zepbound for obesity, generated $36.5 billion in sales, making it the highest-grossing drug molecule in history. It surpassed Keytruda, Merck’s blockbuster cancer immunotherapy, which had held the title for years. Combined with Novo […]