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World's Fastest-Warming Continent Swelters Under Record 'Heat Dome'
NEWS | 28 May 2026
Europe, which is in the throes of a record-smashing heatwave this week, is the world's fastest-warming continent and stretches into an even more rapidly heating Arctic. After record high temperatures for May were broken in Britain, Ireland and France on Monday and Tuesday, the continent still faces more brutal heat in the coming days. A so-called "heat dome" of warm air from northern Africa trapped under a high-pressure system over western Europe is behind the sort of heat not usually seen until high summer. High-pressure systems, which bring settled weather and higher temperatures, have become more common in Europe, Copernicus Director Carlo Buontempo said. One of the fastest-warming places on Earth, Svalbard had record high summer temperatures from 2022 to 2024.

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'Lost World' of Gravitational Waves Reveals The Origins of Black Holes
NEWS | 28 May 2026
"Some might form as one giant cloud of gas that collapses to give two massive stars that then become black holes. While others are the product of a previous generation of mergers between two black holes." That was the first time humanity detected gravitational waves, the space-time ripples from a colliding pair of black holes – like waves spreading outward from a pebble dropped in a pond. That includes the masses and spins of the two colliding black holes, and the estimated mass and spin of the larger black hole formed by the collision. However, other trends suggest that these larger objects may be "second-generation" black holes that grew in mass from a previous collision between smaller black holes.

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A Dazzling Meteor Just 'Video Bombed' a Volcanic Eruption
NEWS | 28 May 2026
The awe-inspiring moment was captured by livestreamed footage, CCTV, and dashcam footage from several nearby cars. A government press release shares that an amateur local astronomer calculated the meteor's energy at 6.8 million kilograms of gunpowder. Such human-made objects tend to leave unruly trails of sparkling debris, whereas meteors, which are comparatively denser, typically streak right through Earth's atmosphere. When the massive asteroid that killed most non-avian dinosaurs struck Earth, a storm of fireballs probably rained across the sky. Scientists keep a close eye on larger asteroid threats, but each day, we trust that an estimated 25 million meteors will be mostly taken care of by our atmosphere.

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Experts Reveal Why You Should Never Rub Your Eyes
NEWS | 28 May 2026
While eye rubbing may seem harmless, people who rub their eyes are at risk of infections or damage to their cornea. Fortunately, there are a number of common causes of itchy eyes that can be treated to reduce the urge to rub. Causes of eye rubbingRubbing your eyes is often a reaction that occurs when your eyes feel uncomfortable or itchy. Sometimes the urge to rub happens if there is a gritty sensation, dryness or something stuck in our eyes. Conjunctivitis, commonly known as pink eye, is an infection of the conjunctiva that can be spread by eye rubbing.

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Stunning AI Solution For 80-Year-Old Problem Shocks Mathematicians
NEWS | 28 May 2026
The planar unit distance problem, or Erdős problem 90, has intrigued mathematicians for decades. (Álvaro Lozano-Robledo)At the same time, results like this show us what kind of mathematics current AI models are good at – and where their capabilities are still uncertain. This breakthrough also represents the first major mathematical open problem solved with AI with minimal human intervention beyond the initial prompt. It remains unclear whether AI models can replicate them, even with recent advances. What is clear is that AI models are causing a seismic shift in the way mathematics is discovered.

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SPONSORED | 28 May 2026
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One Weight Loss Strategy Is 5x More Effective Than Ozempic, Study Shows
NEWS | 28 May 2026
But a recent study shows that they're still not always the most effective medical option for weight loss. In a 2025 study, researchers from New York University (NYU) compared surgery for weight loss – sleeve gastrectomy and gastric bypass operations – against semaglutide or tirzepatide. "While both patient groups lose weight, metabolic and bariatric surgery is much more effective and durable," said ASMBS President Ann M. Rogers, who was not involved in the study. But weight loss isn't the only benefit that can come from Ozempic. In this study, bariatric surgery was associated with even better blood sugar control.

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This Plant Summons Wasps When Under Attack, And We Finally Know How
NEWS | 28 May 2026
Bean plants have a remarkable ability to summon wasps from thin air when caterpillars attack, and now, scientists have figured out exactly how they do it. Humans have cultivated the common bean plant species, Phaseolus vulgaris, to give us much-loved varieties such as kidney beans, black beans, pinto beans, navy beans, and more. Biological receptors are proteins capable of receiving and transferring information within a biological system – a bean plant, for instance. The researchers grew these bean plants in pairs: one plant with fully-functional inceptin receptors, and one plant missing the gene necessary for inceptin receptors to form. Although there was no shortage of wasps nearby, plants missing their inceptin receptors were seriously disadvantaged.

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Spacetime 'Crystals' Could Collapse Into Tiny Black Holes, Wild Paper Explains
NEWS | 28 May 2026
Right on the brink of black hole formation, spacetime can get downright peculiar. Now, physicists have mathematically described, for the first time, a quirk of spacetime geometry at the black hole formation threshold. With just a tiny nudge of energy, those crystal-like patterns of spacetime can collapse into microscopic black holes. It could go either way: dissipating uneventfully, or completely collapsing into a black hole. "But if a tiny amount of energy is added, the evolution takes a completely different path: the inconspicuous spacetime crystal turns into a black hole."

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A Strange Pattern Could Explain The Mysterious Origins of Brain Cancer
NEWS | 28 May 2026
Over many decades of treating brain cancer, doctors have noticed patterns – that some tumors consistently emerge in particular regions of the brain. Scientists have long suspected that some brain tissues may simply be more vulnerable to cancer than others – but exactly why has remained unclear. Now, in the brains of fruit flies, a team of researchers has found a clue, and it may help researchers one day develop treatments for some of the more devastating forms of brain cancer. This suggested that there might be a difference between the brain regions vulnerable to cancer and the regions where it failed to grow. Where Chinmo was dialed down, tumor development screeched to a halt; but, where it was dialed up, abnormal cells grew where they hadn't before.

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NASA Begins Phase 1 of Building Its Moon Base. Here's The Full Plan.
NEWS | 28 May 2026
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – NASA is already ordering landers, rovers and drones for a sprawling moon base, less than two months after the Artemis II's record-breaking lunar flyaround. The space agency outlined the first phase of its moon base plans on Tuesday, awarding hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts to four U.S. companies. Firefly Aerospace, which landed successfully on the moon last year, will deliver the first drones to the moon. "Then we'll be able to say, 'Hey, we're permanently here and we're not giving it up,'" said NASA's moon base program executive Carlos Garcia-Galan. Garcia-Galan envisions a moon base sprawling over hundreds of square miles, with a perimeter marked by drones, dubbed MoonFall, stationed at the corners.

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Are Your Hobbies Reducing Your Dementia Risk? 4 Questions to Ask Yourself
NEWS | 28 May 2026
But dementia risk isn't just the result of genetics, old age or bad luck. It identified 14 modifiable risk factors for dementia at different stages of life. Having multiple hobbies was associated with about a 23% reduction in dementia risk. Bundling the benefitsResearch suggests hobbies help reduce dementia risk because they bring together several ingredients that support overall brain health. Current evidence suggests social isolation is one of the strongest predictors of dementia risk, alone accounting for about 5% of dementia cases.

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Your Blood May Contain an Evolutionary Relic Older Than Animals Themselves
NEWS | 28 May 2026
Compared to some aspects of evolutionary history, tracing the path of blood is breathtakingly difficult. To interrogate that connection further, the researchers turned to a gene they repeatedly found in both animal blood cells and unicellular organisms: Fos. From here, the researchers think blood cells split into two major evolutionary branches. From the macrophage-like ancestral blood cells, a second major lineage eventually split off: the ancestors of mast cells, the immune cells that act as the alarm against intruders. Related: Scientists Identified a New Blood Group After a 50-Year MysteryThese mast cells later gave rise to T cells, red blood cells, and platelets, while macrophages went on to produce the B cells that make antibodies.

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JWST Reveals A Star-Scorched Mercury-Like Planet That's Bigger Than Earth
NEWS | 28 May 2026
This discovery, recently described by a multi-institute team of astronomers, represents a 'next-step' scientific approach to characterizing planets outside the solar system, including their atmospheres, surface compositions, and geologic histories. The exoplanet LHS 3844b was first discovered by astronomers in 2018, located only around 50 light-years away. Yet even our most powerful space telescope can't actually 'see' this dark orb, as we can see the members of our own solar system. Instead, JWST observed a portion of the planet's infrared emissions to yield a spectrum, akin to an object's light-based fingerprint. On our planet and on other active solar system objects, such as Io, carbon dioxide and sulfur outgassing accompany volcanic activities.

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One Vital Bodily Function Could Link Many Dementia Risk Factors
NEWS | 28 May 2026
Staying on top of the health and lifestyle factors associated with dementia is becoming a Sisyphean battle. Chronic stress, aging, cardiovascular disease, and depression have all individually been linked to a higher dementia risk – and now, a new review of published studies suggests they may be connected by a shared thread. Over a decade ago, in 2012, Nedergaard's lab made a discovery that transformed neuroscience: the glymphatic system and its functions. Some scientists have also proposed that the glymphatic system may help flush out proteins associated with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. Nedergaard's review suggests that the picture may be more complicated, and that the quality of sleep is integral to glymphatic function.