September 17, 2025 4 min read The Past Three Summers Were the Three Hottest on Record Climate-fueled heat has caused thousands of excess deaths over the past three summers, which were the three hottest on record By Andrea Thompson edited by Dean Visser Amanda Montañez; Source: Copernicus Climate Change Service (data) The Northern Hemisphere’s summers… Continue reading We’ve Lived through the Three Hottest Summers on Record
The Nuclear Option: Thinking Laterally to Sustain the Royal Navy’s Nuclear Submarine Capability
This commentary was originally published by The Naval Review on October 10, 2025. Submarines, particularly those powered by nuclear propulsion, sit at the pinnacle of technological sophistication in modern militaries, combining stealth with incredible lethality, silently prowling the depths and securing vast maritime spaces. But it is notoriously complex to maintain these machines and the… Continue reading The Nuclear Option: Thinking Laterally to Sustain the Royal Navy’s Nuclear Submarine Capability
Loops of DNA Equipped Ancient Life To Become Complex
The overall structure of a chromosome can be divided first into large territories, then into more specialized compartments, and then into topologically associating domains, known as TADs. These TADs are often thought of as functional or regulatory “neighborhoods” that put related DNA sequences together. Loops are smaller structures within them that do the finer-scale work… Continue reading Loops of DNA Equipped Ancient Life To Become Complex
Making the 20-Point Plan Work in Gaza
At his recent meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Trump, released “20 points” outlining how, with the support of Arab neighbors, Europeans, and others, the devastating conflict that began October 7, 2023, with Hamas’s brutal attack on Israel might end and a lasting peace be established. Netanyahu accepted the 20 points as a… Continue reading Making the 20-Point Plan Work in Gaza
The Gut-Brain Connection Is Real—And It’s Changing How We Think about Health
This episode was made possible by the support of Yakult and produced independently by Scientific American’s board of editors. Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. People often talk about having “gut feelings,” but new research suggests there may be more to the idiom than we thought. Scientists are finding that specialized… Continue reading The Gut-Brain Connection Is Real—And It’s Changing How We Think about Health
Increasing the Value of the ‘Linchpin’ Alliance Between the U.S. and South Korea
The alliance between the United States and South Korea faces one of its most consequential tests in seventy-two years. Some observers believe it may be nearing its breaking point, and there is growing concern in both capitals that the existing framework is no longer sufficient to meet the strategic demands of a far more dangerous… Continue reading Increasing the Value of the ‘Linchpin’ Alliance Between the U.S. and South Korea
The Tennessee Prophet John Hendrix
The Tennessee Prophet John Hendrix < !- end of Google Analytics Code Snippet by GA4WP–> // tabnab protection window.addEventListener(‘load’, function () { // make all links have rel=”noopener noreferrer” document.querySelectorAll(‘a[target=”_blank”]’).forEach(link => { link.setAttribute(‘rel’, ‘noopener noreferrer’); }); }); ]]> Podcast: Download MYS387: A mysterious Tennessee farmer who received startling visions of the future no one believed.… Continue reading The Tennessee Prophet John Hendrix
Meet the Oldest Dome-Headed Dinosaur Ever Found
September 17, 2025 3 min read Meet the Oldest Dome-Headed Dinosaur Ever Found A newly discovered dinosaur species has been identified from a fossil unearthed in Mongolia that represents the most complete pachycephalosaur specimen yet found By Jack Tamisiea edited by Andrea Thompson Artist’s reconstruction of the newly discovered pachycephalosaur. Anyone who has ever flipped… Continue reading Meet the Oldest Dome-Headed Dinosaur Ever Found
Don’t Let Chinese Fears of a U.S. Decapitation Strike Lead to Nuclear War
When Chinese military planners, and probably even the Chinese leadership itself, think about a hypothetical future war with the United States, they are very likely worried that the U.S. military will attempt to decapitate the Chinese leadership. This may sound far-fetched to Americans, but there is very strong evidence that Beijing really does worry about… Continue reading Don’t Let Chinese Fears of a U.S. Decapitation Strike Lead to Nuclear War
Genes Have Harnessed Physics to Help Grow Living Things
“The hypothesis is that physics and mechanics can help us understand the biology at the tissue scale,” said Alexandre Kabla, a physicist and engineer at the University of Cambridge. The task now is to understand the interplay of causes, where genes and physics somehow act hand in hand to sculpt organisms. Grow With the Flow… Continue reading Genes Have Harnessed Physics to Help Grow Living Things