Science · Research
NIST released its long-blinded remeasurement of the gravitational constant this year, and outlets disagree on whether the result strengthens confidence in physics or simply repeats an old puzzle with better paperwork.
Science · Health & Fitness
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s remade Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has voted to narrow guidance on childhood shots, prompting a fight over whether the change restores trust or simply swaps one set of gatekeepers for another.
Science · Energy
A new attribution science review from the National Academies is being cited by both sides of the Suncor v. Boulder case, reviving questions about whether the institution's process was shaped to support climate lawsuits.
Science · Research
The World Weather Attribution analysis of the 26 August Langtang Lirung failure treats warming as one destabilising factor among several, including a 2015 earthquake, and concedes existing warning systems could never have helped.
Science · Health & Fitness
A class-action complaint filed in San Francisco on 16 September alleges the National Institutes of Health screens grants for forbidden words, raising the harder question of whether federal science funding was ever ideologically neutral.
Science · Research
A 42-survey reconstruction published on 16 September 2026 puts combined Greenland and Antarctic ice loss at 11,309 billion tonnes since 1979, and attributes 84 per cent of it to accelerating glaciers rather than surface melt.