A cave in the interior of Paraná state in Brazil contains a "climate archive" that enabled Brazilian researchers to reconstruct the history of extreme rainfall in Brazil's South Region over the past 7,500 years. Their findings revealed that the frequency of these events in the 20th century was a...
The second Hill Nation Summit on Wednesday in Washington convenes a bipartisan gathering of lawmakers and administration officials to dive into conversation with journalists from The Hill and NewsNation. With less than four months until the midterm elections, what are candidates saying about aff...
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.
Lindsay Hoyle thanks Starmer for his leadership, particularly in regard to ‘his steadfast support for Ukraine’ Tell us: what do you want from the next Labour leader and UK prime minister? Labour should ditch the triple-lock pensions promise to help tackle the UK’s straitened public finances, the...
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.
The latest report on the UK's climate warns cold mountainous areas are also being lost.