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On June 23, 2026, France recorded its hottest day since 1947. Temperatures exceeded 44 °C (111 °F) in parts of the country. By 11:45 pm on June 22, the Golfech nuclear reactor in southern France had already shut down. A second reactor at Nogent-sur-Seine was ramping down. Across the English Channel, five gas plants in […]

A platform designed to accelerate clinical research has become a tool for producing what some epidemiologists call an alarming volume of misleading studies. An investigation published June 24 in Science by Frederik Joelving of Retraction Watch documents how medical students and resident physicians are using TriNetX, a platform providing anonymized electronic health records from over […]

G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are the largest family of drug targets in the human genome, roughly one-third of all approved drugs work through them. But GPCRs do not signal through G proteins alone. When a receptor is activated, it is phosphorylated by GRK kinases, which recruits β-arrestin proteins. These β-arrestins then desensitize the receptor (physically blocking […]

Sudden cardiac death claims hundreds of thousands of lives each year, often striking without warning in people who felt reasonably healthy. The standard screening tool, left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), identifies only a small fraction of those at risk. Most people who die suddenly have normal LVEF. A study published June 24 in Nature by […]

On July 1, 2025, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope in Chile spotted something unusual, an object on a trajectory that could only have originated outside the Solar System. Designated 3I/ATLAS, it was the third confirmed interstellar object ever detected, following 1I/’Oumuamua (2017) and 2I/Borisov (2019). With an orbital eccentricity of 6.14, more […]

In June 2026, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute announced what may be the most ambitious single bet in the history of neuroscience. Its Janelia Research Campus near Washington, D.C., is committing approximately $1 billion over the next decade to a single, unified goal: build the first mechanistic account of how a vertebrate brain generates behavior. […]

Every year, roughly 12 million people worldwide survive a stroke. Of those, only about 35% make a full recovery or live with only minor impairments, according to a 2020 review in Medicina. Nearly 100 million people globally live with the aftermath of a stroke, deficits in motor function, speech, cognition, or sensation that can persist […]

The accumulation of hyperphosphorylated tau protein into neurofibrillary tangles is one of the defining pathologies of Alzheimer’s disease and related tauopathies such as progressive supranuclear palsy and corticobasal degeneration. For decades, drug developers have tried, and largely failed, to clear tau from the brain. Antibodies, small molecules, antisense oligonucleotides: the approaches have been many, the […]

In the space of two weeks in June 2026, two separate groups published results that, taken together, hint at a broader transformation in how scientists visualize the smallest structures of matter. One paper came from the MIT laboratory of Edward Boyden, a pioneer of expansion microscopy. The other came from Fudan University in Shanghai, where […]

A refrigerator-sized physics facility aboard the International Space Station has quietly been producing some of the coldest matter in the universe for over five years. NASA’s Cold Atom Lab, operated remotely from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, uses lasers and magnetic fields to cool clouds of rubidium and potassium atoms to within a few […]