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Can AI tame torrential rain by 2050? The next frontier of weather control and forecasting

Japan has been experiencing increasingly severe damage from torrential rainfall triggered by typhoons and stationary linear rain bands. In response, an ambitious and unconventional idea is taking shap...

2026-09-10

SciTechDaily 7/10 ?

A Massive 29-Square-Mile Iceberg Hit an Island and Kept Going

A giant 29-square-mile iceberg broke from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier and survived a collision with Joe Island that might have shattered a more fragile berg. Summer is the busiest time of year for i...

2026-09-10

ScienceDaily 7/10 ?

One sugary drink a day linked to more than double the risk of stomach cancer

People who drank at least one sugar-sweetened beverage a day had roughly 2.45 times the risk of gastric cancer compared with those who rarely consumed them, according to a decades-long study of more t...

2026-09-10

RealClearScience 6/10 ?

AI-Researched Drug May Slow Aging

Fabiana Negrin Ochoa, Wall Street JournalAlex Zhavoronkov, founder and co-chief executive of techbio company Insilico, is among the scientists who have devoted...

2026-09-10

RealClearScience 6/10 ?

For Men, Good Health in Middle Age Augurs Well for Longevity

Univ. of HelsinkiUniversity of Helsinki researchers followed almost 2,700 Finnish men for over 50 years, until the end of their lives. The monitoring began in the 1960s and 1970s, when the...

2026-09-10

RealClearScience 6/10 ?

Studying Astronauts Could Help Tackle Aging on Earth

Jones & McArdle, The ConvAstronauts who undergo long-duration spaceflight aboard the International Space Station often return with health problems that resemble some age-related conditions...

2026-09-10

RealClearScience 6/10 ?

Chinese Cave Rewrites 120,000 Years of Denisovan History

Gayoung Lee, GizmodoNeanderthals and Denisovans are among our closest extinct human relatives, but there's still much we don't know about this ancient relative of ours—but new research...

2026-09-10

RealClearScience 6/10 ?

Give Heroin to Drug Addicts? Where Harm Reduction Fails

Cameron English, ACSHA growing coalition of drug-policy experts says giving pharmaceutical heroin to addicts beats established treatment. Such programs, they argue, reduce the harms caused...

2026-09-10

RealClearScience 6/10 ?

Europe Finally Has a Star Space Entrepreneur

Eric Berger, Ars TechnicaAll of a sudden, French entrepreneur Hèlene Huby is seemingly everywhere.This week she is serving as one of two envoys, alongside astronaut Thomas Pesquet,...

2026-09-10

RealClearScience 6/10 ?

'Impossible' Black Hole Merger Explained by Warp in Spacetime

Robert Lea, SpaceA "forbidden" merger between two massive black holes may not have been quite as impossible as previously thought. That's according to new research that suggests the black...

2026-09-10

RealClearScience 6/10 ?

Politicians Erupt as AI Researchers Warn of Extinction

Waldvogel & Duncan, Wa PostA researcher at the artificial intelligence company Anthropic offered a bleak prediction late Tuesday that the systems the company is racing to build carried the...

2026-09-10

RealClearScience 6/10 ?

What Is Math's Langlands Program Really About?

Natalie Wolchover, Quanta MagazineThe mathematical universe is boundless and heterogeneous, encompassing, over here, truths about numbers and equations; there, the logic of shapes and...

2026-09-10

RealClearScience 6/10 ?

More Impossible-to-Ignore Vaccine Effects

Derek Lowe, Science MagazineI did not enjoy getting my recombinant shingles vaccine (Shingrx). I rarely have strong reaction to vaccinations, but the adjuvant in this one really did give me...

2026-09-10

RealClearScience 6/10 ?

When Scientists Become Commercial Influencers

Barbara Pfeffer Billauer, ACSHPublication in a peer-reviewed journal is a key component of the scientific process and progress. It provides initial assurance that the scientific method has...

2026-09-10

RealClearScience 6/10 ?

The Ozone Paradox: A Growing Cost of a Warmer Atmosphere

Castro et al., EOSMexico City has an atmospheric puzzle: Air quality policies have significantly reduced concentrations of many primary pollutants such as carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide,...

2026-09-10

RealClearScience 6/10 ?

No, Our Ancestors Weren't Carnivores

Hatty Willmoth, Science FocusImagine doing your entire food shop at a butcher's. No vegetables, no bread, no fruit, no pasta, milk or biscuits - just a trolley full of meat, fish, eggs and...

2026-09-10

RealClearScience 6/10 ?

The U.S. Has a New Species of Mosquito

Julia Musto, The IndependentAnew speciesof

2026-09-10

RealClearScience 6/10 ?

Geneticists Now Aim to Edit Epigenomes

Emily Baumgaertner Nunn, New York TimesIt is one of biology's most ingenious rhythms: Every baby is born young. No matter how much wear and tear their parents' DNA accumulated over their...

2026-09-10

RealClearScience 6/10 ?

Gene Editing Human Embryos Is Not Currently Safe

Columbia UniversityAstudyby researchers at Columbia University Vagelos...

2026-09-10

RealClearScience 6/10 ?

'Pink Noise' May Improve Brain 'Cleaning' During Sleep

MITDuring the day, waste products such as lactic acid and worn-out proteins build up in the brain. When we sleep at night, waves of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) help to wash away this waste,...

2026-09-10