Current Affairs

Jeremy Clarkson is in remission from aggressive prostate cancer — but the part of his story that actually matters is the private screening he says caught what routine NHS checks may have missed

A Montana commissioner used the word "transition" while trying to protect his coal town's tax base — and got crushed in his primary by 26 points for it

New England spent a decade fighting to build a hydropower line from Quebec — six months in, it's mostly re-routing electricity the region was already getting, and a drought is quietly undoing the math

A Sydney lab figured out that physically twisting atom-thin sheets of boron nitride changes the color of quantum light inside them — and it quietly sidesteps the problem diamond-based quantum hardware has been stuck on for years

Bonn climate talks just collapsed into procedural deadlock and the part everyone's missing isn't the missed deadlines — it's that wealthy nations are quietly trying to forget the adaptation finance promise they made last year

The green economy just crossed $10 trillion in market cap while Washington pivots back to oil and gas — and the investor conviction behind that number is the part nobody's reading correctly

FIFA says World Cup hydration breaks protect players. Broadcasters may benefit more

Spanish and Swiss researchers found a molecule that doesn't attack Alzheimer's plaques at all — it wakes up the brain's own cleanup crew that quietly stopped working

GM just bet on a battery chemistry with less than 1% US market share — and the reason has nothing to do with beating lithium-ion at its own game

Everyone assumed the earliest plague strains were mild precursors to the Black Death — ancient DNA from Siberian children's graves just rewrote 5,500 years of disease history

The Pentagon just became one of the biggest funders of lithium and graphite mining in North America — and the reason has almost nothing to do with electric vehicles

Arizona's San Carlos Reservoir just collapsed to less than 1% capacity and killed everything in it — and the part that should worry people isn't the drought, it's the contract

California's biggest oil company just figured out how to build a data center nobody can protest — and the answer was sitting inside an Elk Hills oil field the whole time

Georgia is about to lose 800,000 acres of farmland by 2040 and the state's answer is a $2 million fund — the math isn't the point, the infrastructure being quietly built underneath it is

Cities from Copenhagen to Los Angeles are rebuilding themselves to drink the rain — but the climate making sponge cities necessary is also quietly breaking the soil they depend on

Mammals were supposed to have lost the ability to regrow limbs millions of years ago — a Texas A&M team just showed the machinery was never gone, only switched off

Congress set aside $1 billion to put solar panels on the homes of Puerto Rico's most vulnerable residents — internal DOE documents show how the Trump administration quietly rerouted it to a bankrupt utility and a gas pipeline

Anheuser-Busch is dropping $20 million on its St. Louis brewery to scale Michelob Ultra — a bet that moderation, not abstention, may still be what younger drinkers want

Joint Base Andrews lost 22,000 gallons of jet fuel into Piscataway Creek six months ago — and the people now testing the water aren't the agencies legally required to

India’s next wave of air conditioners is coming fast — and the choice between a cheap unit and an efficient one could shape the country’s grid for decades