NASA’s ESCAPADE Snaps Family Portrait of Earth, Moon

Dry thunderstorms that popped up over the Cascade Range on the evening of July 15, 2026, peppered Oregon and Washington with thousands of lightning strikes as they moved east across the states. By the following day, NASA satellites had begun to detect large numbers of wildland fires burning throughout central and eastern Oregon. Though initially…

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Last week, ChatGPT maker OpenAI issued what seems like a frightening memo about an “unprecedented cyber incident” involving cutting-edge AI models breaking loose and hacking another company. As the AI lab tells it, a group of next-generation AI…

Skeletal muscle often begins to deteriorate relatively early in the aging process. Over time, this can cause loss of strength, increased scarring, fat buildup within muscle tissue, and a decline in fast twitch fibers, which support rapid and powerful movements. Researchers led by Professor Ryuichi Tatsumi of Kyushu University’s Faculty of Agriculture have identified a…

The Submillimeter Array (SMA), an 8-telescope radio interferometer located near the summit of Maunakea in Hawaii, reached an important milestone early this year. On January 26th, 2026, scientists from the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) demonstrated this new alert system’s ability to rapidly respond to astronomical phenomena identified by space telescopes. Within minutes…

ACT leader David Seymour wants New Zealand to become a global testing ground for emerging technologies by allowing companies to temporarily bypass regulations through a permanent regulatory exemption scheme. Speaking in Christchurch on Thursday, Seymour said “Innovation Trials” — time-limited schemes where specific rules are suspended in a set region — should become a standing…

Tropical forests draw down and store large quantities of CO₂ from the atmosphere. The Amazon rainforest in South America, for example, stores approximately 123 billion tonnes of carbon — more than is stored in any other terrestrial ecosystem in the world. But these forests are facing a critical challenge. Research from 2023, which was carried…