"The large-scale homogeneity of the universe makes it very difficult to believe that the structure of the universe is determined by anything so peripheral as some complicated molecular structure on a minor planet orbiting a very average star in the outer suburbs of a fairly typical galaxy."

— Steven Hawking

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U.S. National Climate Assessments Website Goes Dark

Scientific American.com - Tue, 07/01/2025 - 12:00pm

Links to the U.S.’s most comprehensive climate reports—the National Climate Assessments—disappeared from the Internet on Monday, along with the official government website that houses them

Categories: Astronomy

Could China’s New Ozempic-like Drugs Beat Out Current Weight-Loss Medications?

Scientific American.com - Tue, 07/01/2025 - 9:30am

GLP-1 drugs currently being tested in China target complications associated with obesity such as heart disease, fatty liver disease and type 2 diabetes

Categories: Astronomy

Russia’s Space Program Is Another Casualty of the War in Ukraine

Scientific American.com - Tue, 07/01/2025 - 9:00am

To achieve its ambitious plans for missions to the moon and beyond, Russia needs other spacefaring nations as partners. But the war in Ukraine is making that help increasingly hard to find

Categories: Astronomy

See Earth’s Forests as Never Before in Biomass Satellite’s First Images

Scientific American.com - Tue, 07/01/2025 - 8:00am

New images from the European Space Agency’s Biomass mission show how the satellite uses advanced radar to map flows of carbon through our planet’s most precious and remote ecosystems

Categories: Astronomy

Southern Europe’s land and sea sizzles

ESO Top News - Tue, 07/01/2025 - 7:41am
Image: A powerful heatwave has been gripping large parts of southern Europe. This image, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission’s Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer on 29 June 2025, reveals the temperature of the land surface.
Categories: Astronomy

Rubin Observatory Data Flood Will Let the Universe Alert Astronomers 10 Million Times a Night

Scientific American.com - Tue, 07/01/2025 - 7:00am

Astronomers have never had this much data available this quickly before

Categories: Astronomy

A pinch of France in space

ESO Top News - Tue, 07/01/2025 - 6:12am

ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot selected the French chef Anne-Sophie Pic to develop the bonus food she will bring to the International Space Station during her mission εpsilon.

Categories: Astronomy