Astronomers have used the ages of more than 155,000 stars in the Milky Way to independently estimate the age of the universe, and their findings may be good news for the standard cosmological model. The new research was reported in a paper submitted to the arXiv preprint server on July 1.
In the aftermath of the devastating July 4, 2025, floods that took 139 lives in Central Texas, an associate professor at The University of Texas at Austin set out to make a new type of outdoor flood alarm: a low-tech, loud alarm that anyone could "set and forget"—just like a smoke detector.
"Extreme heat" is in the forecast this summer. How do people cope if they don't have air conditioning? Here are suggestions from a heat researcher who grew up in a very hot, AC-less place.
The latest report on the UK's climate warns cold mountainous areas are also being lost.
The latest report on the UK's climate warns cold mountainous areas are also being lost.
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