Northern Lights Forecast: Aurora Possible In 19 States From Wednesday

NOAA forecasts a G1, G2 or G3 geomagnetic storm on July 1-3 as a CME arrives, with aurora most likely on the northern horizon in U.S. states close to the Canada border.

See The Milky Way, Venus And A Full Buck Moon: July’s Night Sky

July 2026 brings the Milky Way, Venus near Regulus, the Buck Moon, Mercury before dawn and the start of the Perseid meteor shower.

29 Stunning Space Photos Revealed By Astronomy Photographer Of The Year

Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2026 shortlist features eclipses, nebulae, aurorae and Milky Way images ahead of the September winners announcement.

Anthropic’s New AI Workbench Mapped My Field For $26. Now Imagine It Aimed At The Rest Of Science

Anthropic’s Claude Science is a capable AI research workbench built for molecular biology. The opportunities for the rest of science are enormous.

A Drug-Resistant Fungus Is Spreading Through American Hospitals

Candida auris cases more than doubled from 2022 to 2024, CDC reports. How much of the rise in this drug-resistant fungus is real spread, and how much better detection?

Seeing Innovation: A Journey Through The Manhattan Project

Emily Seyl’s richly illustrated history of the Trinity Test reveals how the Manhattan Project transformed innovation—and forever changed the world.

Anthropic launches Claude Science, an AI workbench for the lab
Anthropic launches Claude Science, an AI workbench for the lab

Anthropic has launched Claude Science, an app that pulls a researcher’s scattered tools into one place and lets AI agents run large parts of the work. It is the company’s biggest push yet into the lab. Anthropic said on June 30, 2026 that Claude Scienc…

What is a quantum computer good for? Absolutely nothing — yet
What is a quantum computer good for? Absolutely nothing — yet

To this day, we have yet to see a quantum computer conclusively perform a single useful task. Existing machines are simply too small and error-ridden to solve commercially relevant problems. That hasn’t stopped Donald Trump’s science adviser from promising a “quantum computer powerful enough for scientific discovery by 2028” and Trump from issuing a new […]

New York Is About to Feel Hotter Than Phoenix

Extreme heat coupled with humidity will make it feel like 109 degrees Fahrenheit as the holiday weekend approaches.

Explorers Get Naming Rights. Infrastructure Builds The Future.

The Second Space Race will be won by building space infrastructure—not just launching satellites. Private innovation and smart policy will power the space economy.