ASML Supercharges Its Forecast as AI Chip Hunger Reshapes the Semiconductor World
A Blowout Quarter Built on AI Ambition ASML, the world’s leading supplier of semiconductor manufacturing equipment, raised its financial outlook for 2026 after reporting stronger-than-expected second-quarter results, fuelled by surging global demand for artificial intelligence chips. The Dutch company didn’t just beat expectations — it…
Massachusetts Stays Calm as Cyclospora Parasite Ravages the Midwest
A Nationwide Outbreak, But Not an Equal One There have been 1,645 confirmed cases of cyclosporiasis acquired in the United States since May 1, and more than 5,100 additional cases are being investigated by the CDC — a sharp increase compared with recent years. But…
Ticks, Mosquitoes and Flies Are Getting Worse — Here Is Why
A Bug Problem Centuries in the Making You are not imagining it. The bugs really are getting worse. And the reasons why stretch back further than you might expect — to colonial-era land use decisions, the abundance of acorns on oak trees, and a warming…
Starless and Alive: How Rogue Planet Moons Could Harbor Life for Billions of Years
Life Without a Sun Everything we thought we knew about where life can exist just got a little more complicated. A landmark study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society has found that moons orbiting so-called “rogue planets” — worlds cast out…
A Splashy Claim That the Universe Is Lopsided Just Fell Apart
A Bombshell Paper That Shook Cosmology For a brief, dizzying moment, it looked like one of the most fundamental assumptions in all of science was wrong. In a study published in *Nature* at the end of June 2026, coauthors Francesco Sylos Labini and Marco Galoppo…
