Back to School — Without Food
Cuts to the nation’s largest food assistance program will likely spill over into schools, causing students to lose access to free breakfast and lunch. More than 1 million American children have lost access to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, following a recent federal law. Now, as schools gearContinue Reading
‘PlastiVan’ 101: When Plastic Companies Write the Lesson Plans
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. This fall, 54 million K-12 students are headed back to the classroom for another year of lessons in all the classic subjects: math, English, history, biology. But there’s another subject that’s been sneaking into school curricula: plastics. A new report fromContinue Reading
Stay sharp after menopause: How aerobic exercise can improve key thinking skills
Regular aerobic exercise—the kind that gets your heart pumping—can improve important thinking skills called executive functions, and the benefits appear especially strong for women after menopause, according to Rutgers researchers…Read MoreContinue Reading
Amazon just tripled its order of Nvidia chips over ‘surging demand’
Amazon is adding another 2 million Nvidia GPU chips to its data centers over the next two years. But this extended partnerships stretches beyond buying more chips…Continue Reading
Ghostly green lakes merge in Australian outback after 2 years of heavy rain — Earth from space
A 2024 satellite photo captured a striking emerald body of water in the Australian outback. It is made up of four different ephemeral lakes that have merged after breaking their banks due to near-record levels of rainfall. (Image credit: NASA Earth Observatory/Landsat) QUICK FACTS Where is it? Barkly Tableland, Australia’s Northern Territory [-18.595019720, 135.2699610] What’sContinue Reading
NASA Welcomes Türkiye as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory
Elizabeth Shaw Aug 31, 2026 During a ceremony hosted by NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman at the agency’s headquarters in Washington on Monday, the Republic of Türkiye signed the Artemis Accords, joining the growing international coalition of like-minded nations dedicated to peaceful, transparent space exploration. “It is my privilege to welcome the Republic of Türkiye asContinue Reading
Passengers seen standing on ferry after it capsized near northern Cyprus
“We’ve not seen anything like this before. It’s by far the worst tragedy. We think most of the passengers were Turks and Turkish Cypriots,” Mehmet Harmancı, the mayor of Turkish-held Nicosia, told the Guardian, after at least eight people died and 18 went missing when a ferry carrying nearly 270Continue Reading
Summer 2026 was UK’s hottest on record, says Met Office | BBC News
Summer 2026 was the UK’s hottest on record, according to provisional data from the Met Office. Figures for the months of June, July and August show that the average mean temperature – which includes day and overnight temperatures – was 16.5C, the warmest on record in a dataset going backContinue Reading
WATCH: GOP Rep. Massie names 14 Epstein associates he wants DOJ to investigate, prosecute
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US military says it struck IRGC targets in Iran after attacks on shipping in Strait of Hormuz
Hostilities sparked back into life on Sunday after the US carried out fresh strikes on what it said were IRGC minelaying forces in the Strait of Hormuz.Continue Reading
SCO challenges West as diverse group of nations pursues multipolar future
The summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, which represents almost half of the world’s population, ended with an aim to signal the rise of a global powerhouse challenging the West. Yet the SCO’s diversity also revealed significant disagreements and divergent interests.Continue Reading
America Is Buying an Army It Cannot Command
The U.S. Army has committed to a million small drones by 2028. The Department of Defense has not decided who will authorize how they fire. That is not a materiel gap. The volume is on order; Nvidia’s latest earnings guidance says the compute to run it is on the way.Continue Reading