Space junk falls back to Earth faster as sunspot numbers climb
A new study links the sun’s 11-year cycle to accelerated orbital loss, with debris falling faster once sunspot numbers near their cycle peak.
Give yourself an on-demand Android taskbar
Holy moly, I am flying around my phone this week. It’s a wild feeling — especially since Google’s grand I/O gala, which is traditionally the
Christian school won more than half a million in “religious freedom” lawsuit over trans athlete
Education agencies in Vermont have paid more than half a million dollars in damages and legal fees to a Christian school in the state that
Diagnostic dilemma: A woman turned black and blue weeks after starting a new medication
A woman’s sudden hyperpigmentation was a side effect of a medicine she was taking.
Clean hydrogen created from plastic waste using battery acid from old cars and solar power
Researchers turned hard-to-recycle plastic into hydrogen using battery acid. This circular upcycling system tackles multiple problematic waste streams at once, the scientists claim.
‘Food insecurity is no longer just about low-income countries’: Environmental economist explains how climate change is pushing agricultural systems to the brink
As a U.N. report warns that extreme temperature swings are disrupting crops and endangering agricultural workers, we spoke with environmental economist Shouro Dasgupta about farming
4basebio announces lease of an innovation hub and manufacturing facility in Cambridge, UK
4basebio PLC, a specialist in synthetic DNA manufacturing and nucleic acids for next-generation therapeutics, announces a significant expansion into a new innovation hub and manufacturing
Popular GLP-1 drugs significantly reduce major cardiovascular events,
Researchers evaluate the long-term cardiovascular safety and efficacy of GLP-1RAs in high-risk populations.
Did Rachel Maddow criticize Trump for ignoring Iran, then deny his ‘right’ to strike country in 2026?
A popular meme claims the MS NOW host made contradictory remarks about Trump’s Iran policy.
Artificial intelligence accelerates discovery of next-generation disinfectants
Chemists and computer scientists tapped AI to find new disinfectants to combat the growing threat of dangerous “superbugs.”
Posts claim Senate candidate Graham Platner has tattoo of Nazi symbol. That’s not the full story
Platner said he got the ink in question while deployed overseas with the Marines in 2007 and had it covered up in 2025.
Character.AI sued over chatbot that claims to be a real doctor with a license
Pennsylvania has sued the maker of Character.AI, alleging that it violated state law by presenting an AI chatbot character as a licensed doctor. The lawsuit
Human telomerase shows limited function across different animal species
A new research paper was published in Volume 18 of Aging-US on April 13, 2026, titled “Cross species activity of TERT human telomerase component.”
Widely used Daemon Tools disk app backdoored in monthlong supply-chain attack
Daemon Tools, a widely used app for mounting disk images, has been backdoored in a monthlong compromise that has pushed malicious updates from the servers