I'm a staff writer at @wired.com and I'm looking to speak with parents of immunocompromised kids, especially those in areas with measles outbreaks, and how you're dealing with back to school with rising cases. emily_mullin@wired.com

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

Scoop: For nearly a year, NSF has struggled to make new grants. Now we know that it will not catch up. In fact, NSF will award just 6,100 new grants—a 30% y/o/y decline, itself down from a previous avg. of 11,000+. In fact, the last time NSF awarded so few grants was in the early '80s.

Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades

The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.

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People who don’t know the difference between ‘entomology’ and ‘etymology’ bug us in ways we cannot put into words.

Seems like a good time to reup this story from last year. If current vaccination rates remain the same, researchers estimate that the US could see more than 850,000 measles cases and 2,500 deaths over the next 25 years. www.wired.com/story/scient...

Scientists Find Measles Likely To Become Endemic in the US Over Next 20 Years

A new study forecasts more than 850,000 measles cases over the next 25 years if US vaccination rates stay the same. Millions of infections are possible if rates drop.

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Record-early champagne harvest highlights climate change impact on French vineyards reut.rs/4qlwHbP

Record-early champagne harvest highlights climate change impact on French vineyards

In the Champagne region of northeast France, dozens of workers ​gathered among chardonnay vines at dawn on August 14, secateurs and buckets in hand, beginning the second day of the earliest harvest since ‌records began in the early 20th century. Climatic changes such as the record heat and drought endured across swathes of Europe this summer are testing the resilience of France's champagne industry. Higher temperatures accelerate ripening and produce grapes with a higher sugar content, making it harder to preserve champagne's flavour and acidity. This summer the Champagne Committee (CIVC), the industry's governing body, which determines harvest dates by monitoring grape maturity, advanced ​the official start date to August 12 — more than a week earlier than last year's August 20.

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Climate change has now become a problem for the whole solar system

One of NASA’s Most Important Deep Space Observatories Hit by Spanish Wildfires

Flames burned through the Deep Space Communications Complex near Madrid, but NASA has been unable to assess the damage as a wildfire emergency grips the region.

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Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...

Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.

The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.

climatecoloredgoggles.com

FT exclusive: Europe’s June heatwave wiped more than €2bn from the value of its grain crop, according to new analysis, with France and Hungary bearing the brunt of the damage ft.trib.al/N5gzUFY

NEW ANALYSIS: One of the most consequential discoveries of the 20th century is marked by a small blue plaque near my office. The lithium-ion cathode, Oxford, 1980. Grid batteries have since gone from one 5 MW project to 267 GW worldwide. New Bright Spots 👇 open.substack.com/pub/janrosen...

Batteries are quietly rewiring the grid

From a plaque in Oxford to a third of California's electricity peak: how batteries revolutionise the grid.

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The epic investigation in the New Yorker by Heidi Blake seems to have lit a fire under UK criminal justice bureaucrats, who'd messed up last time they had a chance to prosecute the Tates (including some pretty horrendous victim blaming Blake recounts). Journalism matters for justice.

Andrew Tate’s Empire of Abuse

How the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women.

newyorker.com

Cutting back on our use of energy and materials so that we live within Earth’s means can seem like an insurmountable challenge. But after a decade grappling with these problems, a historic Portuguese city is beginning to walk this tightrope

Can everyone live a ‘good life’ without destroying the planet?

Cutting back on our use of energy and materials so that we live within Earth’s means can seem like an insurmountable challenge. But after a decade grappling with these problems, a historic Portuguese city is beginning to walk this tightrope

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Can everyone enjoy a good life without destroying the planet? Recent research on “consumption corridors” suggests we can — and a small Portuguese city is beginning to find the way through. My latest for @newscientist magazine, reported from Guimarães. www.newscientist.com/article/2532...

Can everyone live a ‘good life’ without destroying the planet? | New Scientist

Cutting back on our use of energy and materials so that we live within Earth’s means can seem like an insurmountable challenge. But after a decade grappling with these problems, a historic Portuguese ...

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Rest in peace to one of cinema’s most outstanding artists; the legendary actor Sam Neill (1947–2026)

Ro! Ro! – Norway's World Cup team "rows" with 90,000 people outside Royal Palace in Oslo tv.vg.no/video/383250...

A chemical tour of the solar system highlights Earth's uniqueness: Researchers probe the geochemistry of the moon, Mars, asteroids, and water worlds to understand our home and plan for future space missions. #chemsky 🧪

A chemical tour of the solar system highlights Earth's uniqueness

Researchers probe the geochemistry of the moon, Mars, asteroids, and water worlds to understand our home and plan for future space missions

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Expedition captures first images of Shackleton's last ship. The Quest shipwreck is in worse shape than expected, but it has turned into a thriving marine ecosystem. arstechnica.com/science/2026...

Expedition captures first images of Shackleton's last ship

The Quest shipwreck is in worse shape than expected, but it has turned into a thriving marine ecosystem.

arstechnica.com

NEW: Citing ProPublica’s reporting, two lawmakers have called on the CDC to address a “preventable public health crisis” of parents refusing the vitamin K shot for their newborns — which has led to babies suffering uncontrollable bleeding and even dying.

Lawmakers Call for CDC to Track Vitamin K Shot Refusals, Cite ProPublica Report

Two members of Congress are urging federal officials to monitor vitamin K shot refusals by parents and the potential consequences for their newborns, including severe bleeding or death.

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Current El Nino, on top of human-caused climate change, could mean global avg temp could breach 2C of warming. While scientists have long braced for climate change, the growing severity of its impacts is shocking them. Excellent deep dive @eroston.bsky.social. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Researchers have made a metal-organic framework (MOF) that uses light to capture CO₂ and convert it to carbon monoxide: #chemsky 🧪

This MOF uses light to capture and convert carbon dioxide

‘Unusual mechanism’ nabs the greenhouse gas from simulated power plant exhaust

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Happy 250th anniversary, USA.

And so many were preventable. Another wake-up call for accelerated adaptation and mitigation.

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At least 3,700 excess deaths reported during heatwave in France, Belgium and Netherlands reut.rs/3QB26tL

Swiss glaciers are set to lose an enormous amount of ice due to the heatwave battering Europe, the head of Glacier Monitoring in Switzerland (GLAMOS) said. ➡️ u.afp.com/SKZp

The latest edition of #PeriodicGraphics explains the history of the #WorldCup trophy and its chemical composition: cen.acs.org/materials/in... #FIFAWorldCup #chemsky 🧪

I just keep thinking, “If it’s like this now, what’s it going to be like in 10, 20 or 30 years’ time?” - @mjflepage.bsky.social

Rowan Hooper@rowhoop.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It's not "the new normal": this heatwave shows that we're never going to have "normal" again - by @mjflepage.bsky.social www.newscientist.com/article/2531...

Europe is warming at a rate that’s more than double the pace of warming worldwide since the mid-1990s, due to melting Arctic sea ice, reduced pollution-related aerosols, and less snow cover. These changes are also altering weather patterns, leading to more frequent and intense heat waves.

Why Europe Is the Fastest-Warming Continent

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Exclusive: The Interior Department’s new policy prohibits park staff or other department employees from directly notifying the public about fatalities or the severity of injuries, breaking from past disclosure practices.

Internal memo tells staff to stay mum on deaths at national parks

Guidance issued by the Interior Department instructs Nation Park Service staff not to confirm deaths, the severity of injuries or other details.

washingtonpost.com

Hidden Mozart Manuscript Reveals Rare Lesson Notes and Music Never Performed Publicly Before www.discovermagazine.com/hidden-mozar...

Hidden Mozart Manuscript Reveals Rare Lesson Notes and Music Never Performed Publicly Before

Learn how a hidden manuscript was identified as Mozart's earliest known lesson notes and found to contain previously unknown compositions.

discovermagazine.com

Plastic pollution is pervasive across ecosystems. A Review in Nature Reviews Biodiversity summarizes current evidence on plastic exposure pathways, organismal responses and potential effects at higher levels of biological organization. go.nature.com/3QsA6rS 🌎🧪

This year’s potentially record-breaking El Niño could impact food systems, energy production, economies, ecosystems and human wellbeing.

A crisis 'unfolding': Why El Niño won’t just make Europe warmer

This year’s potentially record-breaking El Niño could impact food systems, energy production, economies, ecosystems and human wellbeing.

l.euronews.com