Can Studying Heat Waves in Real Time Save Lives?
Heat drove medical emergencies across the country last summer. Tracking those changes more quickly could help doctors prepare. By Keerti Gopal The volume of patients in Dr. Robert Brewer’s upstate New York emergency room isn’t always predictable, but when there’s a heat wave, he knows he needs to staff up. Continue Reading
College volleyball players keep Wrigley Field crowd entertained during delays
More than 40,000 college volleyball fans left Chicago’s Wrigley Field Sunday night without getting to watch the Nebraska-Missouri match due to weather delays, but it was still a win with players doing their best to keep the crowd entertained — with a dance competition., Read More NBC NewsContinue Reading
Laughter therapy can help people with COPD breathe more easily
A clinical trial for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) shows that laughter therapy can reduce breathing difficulties and is as effective as more traditional breathing exercises. The research was presented at the European Respiratory Society (ERS) Congress in Barcelona, Spain…Read MoreContinue Reading
Nvidia acquires Hugging Face and becomes open platform provider
AI acceleration hardware provider Nvidia announces the acquisition of the open model platform Hugging Face…Continue Reading
Many Space Missions Are Searching for Life Beyond Earth—But Are We Prepared for the Fallout If They Succeed?
Microbes from space have fueled the plots of science fiction mainstays like “Project Hail Mary” and “The Andromeda Strain.” But with more space missions launching each year, finding extraterrestrial life in a microbial form is becoming more plausible. What will the response be back here on Earth if—or when—scientists discover extraterrestrial microbes? Will the international policy andContinue Reading
James Webb telescope finds one of our galaxy’s rarest stars inside the ‘Treasure Chest’ globule — Space photo of the week
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured the “Treasure Chest,” a cometary globule in the star-forming Carina Nebula, on Aug. 6, 2026 (Image credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, M. Reiter; Acknowledgment: M. H. Özsaraç) Quick facts What it is: The Treasure Chest, a cometary globule in the Carina Nebula star-forming region Where it is: 7,500 light-yearsContinue Reading
Board of Peace touts progress as Palestinians’ situation worsens
Humanitarian official Athena Rayburn dissects the Israeli tactics making life ‘untenable’ for millions of Palestinians., Humanitarian official Athena Rayburn dissects the Israeli tactics making life ‘untenable’ for millions of Palestinians. In this episode, Athena Rayburn, the executive director of the Association of International Development Agencies, describes what daily life hasContinue Reading
Egyptian wrestlers keep vanishing abroad amid a sport in crisis
Two wrestlers have become the latest to flee while abroad, drawing a wave of sympathy as well as legal threats., Cairo, Egypt – Four days after he disappeared from the Egyptian team camp at the 2026 Under-20 World Wrestling Championships in Slovakia last month, 19-year-old wrestler Ziad Hajjaj Abu GabalContinue Reading
Merz: I won’t waver on Russia | DW News
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says his opposition to Russia will not change following the far-right, Moscow-friendly AfD’s victory in regional elections. The results from Saxony-Anhalt show support falling for parties that oppose Russia, and rising support for parties skeptical of aid for Ukraine. Merz was responding to a question fromContinue Reading
Inside the gigafactory: the hidden sealing challenges behind EV battery manufacturing (Webinar)
Manufacturing an EV battery requires much more than assembling cells. A gigafactory combines chemical processing, solvent recovery, vacuum drying, electrolyte filling, cell formation, cooling, and final battery assembly, all supported by an extensive network of piping and process equipment. During electrode production, solvents such as NMP must be transferred, contained,Continue Reading
Schaeffler develops process to recover and reuse rare earth magnets from EV motor rotors
Specialists at Schaeffler’s E-Mobility plant in Szombathely, Hungary have developed a process for recovering rare earth magnets from defective electric motor rotors and reusing them in new ones. Seven people in Szombathely and two in Germany worked on the project, which Schaeffler calls “Pioneering Sustainability.” The magnets are pressed outContinue Reading
How Decades of Privatization Unleashed The Traitor’s Warmongering
It used to be that the president of the United States tried to persuade the public to go to war. Franklin Roosevelt’s speech asking Congress to enter World War II produced one of the most famous phrases in American history: “December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy.” LyndonContinue Reading
The Traitor’s economic record is working against him in the midterms
Traitor 47, who won reelection based on a promise to turn the economy around, now faces a reckoning in midterms centered largely on his economic record…Continue Reading











