News Archive | June 2026

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June 12th
- World's rarest great ape decimated by 4 days of extreme rain, with 7% of population lost to cyclone
- 'I was really amazed': On the edge of the Milky Way, a dwarf galaxy is being ripped in half by its big sibling
- These patients' hearts stopped a dozen times a day. An innovative procedure has transformed their lives.
June 11th
- Ancient squirrel poop from Arctic permafrost contains DNA from mammoths, bison, horses and big cats
- Earth's underground fungal network is so massive, it would span 10% of the Milky Way, map reveals
- Century-old tuberculosis vaccine could help treat diabetes, trials hint. How?
- The Milky Way returns: How to take breathtaking photos of our galaxy this summer
- El Niño is officially here, and will be among the strongest ever recorded, NOAA announces
- Complete skin of an adult horse found with 10th-century woman and newborn in rare Siberian burial
June 10th
- Scientists discover 5 million-year-old whale graveyard stretching for hundreds of miles in the Indian Ocean
- Artificial turf contains 400 chemicals tied to cancer and hormone disruption. But is it unsafe?
- Scientists were excited about a blood test for many cancers — but it failed a big trial. Here's what to know.
- This 'crawling' robot rolled around the moon and took a historic photo
- In a first, scientists translated an entire viral genome so a quantum computer could read and analyze it
- Genetically modified worms can now produce and deliver drugs inside a living body, scientists say
- Mysterious 'cold blob' in the Atlantic is a sign of the Gulf Stream weakening — and that's bad news for the US East Coast
- Scientists discover giant, fan-shaped structure deep beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet
June 9th
- 2,000 years ago in Scotland, people removed a corpse's brain and fashioned the arm bones into tools
- 3 new Ebola vaccines are being fast-tracked amid the current outbreak — when could they be ready?
- 2 long-vanished 'super Earths' once orbited near Neptune in our outer solar system, new study hints
- China unveils first-of-its-kind 'dual-core' quantum computer — its makers say it improves stability and efficiency
- Artemis III crew revealed: NASA announces astronauts for 'one of history's most complex missions'
- Ditch full of 7,000-year-old headless human skeletons discovered in Slovakia, baffling archaeologists
- Physicist Richard Feynman's forgotten notes on 'the restaurant problem' finally deciphered after 50 years
June 8th
- Thanks to natural selection, Indigenous Andeans may digest potatoes better than anyone else in the world, study finds
- 'A disease anywhere can be a disease everywhere tomorrow morning': Public health expert on Ebola and the threat of future outbreaks
- Sea ice loss in the Arctic has triggered a critical tipping point that's destroying the food chain
- This yeast-based 3D printed biomaterial could one day replace your wallpaper and drapes
June 7th
- 'Crystals' of space-time could be the origins of certain rare black holes, theoretical study hints
- Ultra-rare meteorite could be evidence of a lost planet that once orbited near Earth — Space photo of the week
June 6th
- Stupid hot: Heat waves cause cognitive changes in animals, making them more aggressive and unable to complete basic tasks
- Trump administration to remove 900 deep sea monitoring instruments that would have studied the collapsing Atlantic current
- Science news this week: Ötzi the Iceman used to make sourdough, Italian teenagers discover Roman villa under school, Google plans to release 64 million mosquitos, and RIP to NASA's Maven probe
June 5th
- World's largest scorpion had 6-inch pincers, and prowled UK land and waters 415 million years ago
- Coming El Niño will be the strongest ever recorded, new forecast predicts
- NASA astronauts briefly shelter in 'safe haven' procedure following worsening leaks on International Space Station
- Flu drugs might fight cognitive decline seen in HIV, early study hints
- Look up tonight: Jupiter and Venus will almost touch in one of 2026's best skywatching events
- Scientists race to collect the last seeds from a critically endangered tree before it goes extinct
- 'The best solution is to murder him in his sleep': AI can learn violent tendencies from each other despite zero references to violence in training data
June 4th
- New Velociraptor cousin was a '4-winged' dragon that hunted prey from the trees of ancient China, fossil find hints
- Flesh-eating screwworm found in Texas cows and dog. Are humans at risk?
- Italian teenagers discover 1,800-year-old Roman luxury house underneath their high school gym
- Satellite images reveals mangroves rebounding worldwide — but here's why they could still 'drown'
- James Webb telescope detects most distant dormant black hole, invisible in all wavelengths and weighing as much as 6 billion suns
- Microsoft's latest quantum chip is 1,000 times more reliable than its predecessor — but why is it so controversial?
- Mysterious repeating radio signal traced to 'vampire' star that's slowly eating its companion
- First shipwrecks linked to real pirates of the Caribbean found in Bahamas
- 'Cannibal' CME from rare 'anti-Hale' sunspot will slam into Earth today, bringing auroras to 23 US states
June 3rd
- Daddy longlegs may be capturing and devouring frogs in the tropical forests of South America
- Google wants to release 64 million bacteria-riddled mosquitoes across California and Florida. Here's why scientists are enthusiastic.
- 'In an unrecoverable state': NASA confirms MAVEN spacecraft is officially dead after loss of signal behind Mars
- A cheap arthritis drug shows promise treating RSV in early study
- 'Totally counterintuitive': Scientists accidentally discover magnetic fields around 7 distant planets, opening new window in the search for life
- 'It was very very good': Ötzi the Iceman's body is covered in ancient yeast — and scientists just used it to make a sourdough
June 2nd
- Physicists achieve 'perfect randomness' for the first time ever
- China launches new Long March 12B rocket, reportedly without any safety warning
- 17,000-year-old stripes of red in a Welsh cave are the oldest rock art in the UK, study finds
June 1st
- NASA confirms meteor exploded over northeastern US with force of 230 tons of TNT
- Astronauts could use lightning-like plasma jets to kill germs on the moon and Mars, demo hints
- First whole-genome sequence of a Greenland shark holds clues to their extreme longevity
- Heading a soccer ball just once is enough to raise levels of proteins associated with brain damage
- Scientists reveal the origin of the Euphrates — a river that fed the 'cradle of civilization'