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Globe breaks heat record for 8th straight month. Golfers get to play in Minnesota’s ‘lost winter’

Jury to decide on climate scientist Michael Mann’s defamation suit over comparison to molester

A pod of killer whales trapped in drift ice off northern Japan has apparently safely escaped

Scientists move forward with plans for giant new atom-smasher to begin operating by 2040

Ocean sponges suggest Earth has warmed longer, more than thought; some scientists dubious

A Russian cosmonaut sets a new record for the most time in space

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US center’s tropical storm forecasts are going inland, where damage can outstrip coasts

Hungry sea otters are helping save California’s marshlands from erosion

Earth’s moon is shrinking. Here’s what scientists say that could mean

Are insects drawn to light? New research shows it’s confusion, not fatal attraction

Washington state to develop guidelines for agencies using generative AI

Western monarch butterflies overwintering in California dropped by 30% last year, researchers say

Space shuttle Endeavour hoisted for display in launch configuration at Los Angeles science museum

UN agency confirms 119.8-degree reading in Sicily two years ago as Europe’s record high temperature

Rise and shine: Japanese moon probe back to work after sun reaches its solar panels

Climate activists in Germany to abandon gluing themselves to streets, employ new tactics

Will other states replicate Alabama’s nitrogen execution?

Russia fires a top geneticist who claimed people could live to 900 before sins caused Biblical flood

NASA’s little helicopter on Mars has logged its last flight

A rhino got pregnant from embryo transfer, in a success that may help nearly extinct subspecies