Extreme heat fuels helplessness, study finds young people and women hit hardest
A BBC-linked study signals mental health risk from heatwaves, and it changes how health and HR leaders plan.

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A BBC-linked study signals mental health risk from heatwaves, and it changes how health and HR leaders plan.
AI can rapidly shortlist molecules, yet the body still has plenty of ways to reject them.
New fossil evidence points to killer behavior early in life, reshaping what “T. rex” means to researchers and audiences.
A Nature report describes how tailoring gene therapy and shutting down one gene copy eased severe epilepsy in two children.
Researchers identify the shared building blocks behind birdsong’s “spectacular diversity” and explain why it matters for sound science.
The BBC reports researchers pinpoint a unifying acoustic rule behind spectacular birdsong variety, with major implications for bioacoustics.
The I.M.U. names four winners, including Wang at NYU, for solving the Kakeya needle conjecture.
The SunRISE solar-storm mission switches launch rockets, and it lands inside an ongoing USSF rideshare reshuffling.
New machine-learning work at CERN sharpens searches for additional Higgs-family particles beyond the one found in 2012.
A successful, more humane path for fertility restoration emerges after a long history of messy testicular transplant attempts.
New simulations with non-equilibrium physics suggest the Sun actually contains 55% more silver than measured.
Decision-makers face a calendar-threatening climate event that can amplify extremes, disrupt supply, and reshape risk models.