Trump’s Cabinet Nominees Face Grilling Over Epstein Files, Election Claims, and Science
A Day of High-Stakes Hearings on Capitol Hill On Wednesday, July 15, the Senate put three of President Trump’s key nominees through the wringer in back-to-back confirmation hearings that touched on some of the most contentious issues in American public life — the Jeffrey Epstein…
A New Alzheimer’s Drug Targets Tau and Sully Sullenberger Has the Disease
A Different Kind of Attack on Alzheimer’s At the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference on Tuesday, July 15, Biogen presented the complete clinical, biomarker, and safety dataset from its Phase 2 CELIA study of diranersen — and for the first time in randomized human research, a…
Four Nations Move Closer to EU Membership in a Historic Single Day
A Milestone Not Seen in Over Two Decades Four countries hoping to join the European Union took important steps forward on their membership quests on Tuesday, July 14, in one of the bloc’s biggest enlargement moves in more than 20 years. The event drew an…
Ancient Maya Genius Finally Gets His Name After 1,200 Years of Anonymity
A Fox Emerges From the Jungle of History For the first time, researchers have identified an ancient Maya mathematician by name after decoding a painted wall text from the archaeological site of Xultun in northeastern Guatemala — linking a complex mathematical formula to an individual…
One of the Largest T. Rex Fossils Ever Found Goes Up for Auction Today
A Giant from the Hell Creek Formation Sixty-seven million years ago, a massive Tyrannosaurus rex roamed what is now South Dakota. Today, what remains of that creature — a skeleton nicknamed “Gus” — goes under the hammer at Sotheby’s in New York City, with a…
Scientists Detect a True Sugar in Deep Space for the First Time
A Sweet Discovery at the Heart of the Galaxy Erythrulose, a sugar found in raspberries, kiwis, and many red fruits, apparently exists in a giant molecular cloud of gas and dust near the center of our galaxy, some 26,745 light-years from Earth. This marks the…
Japan Creates Its First Central Spy Agency Since World War II
Breaking With Eight Decades of Restraint Japan is setting up its first centralised intelligence agency since World War II, aiming to modernise its defence capabilities against spies, foreign interference, and other attacks from foreign adversaries. It is a move that would have been unthinkable for…
FCC Greenlights Space Mirror Startup That Wants to Beam Sunlight to Earth at Night
A New Kind of Night Light — From Orbit What if the sun never truly set — at least not for the people who needed it most? That’s the premise behind Reflect Orbital, a California-based startup that cleared a major regulatory hurdle last week when…
Forever Stamps Now Cost 82 Cents as USPS Battles a Deepening Financial Crisis
Another Hike, Another Record High If you bought a book of stamps recently, you already paid more than you would have a week ago. The U.S. Postal Service raised the price of a first-class Forever stamp from 78 cents to 82 cents on July 12,…
Senator Lindsey Graham Dead at 71 After Sudden Cardiac Event at DC Home
A Career Ended Without Warning Lindsey Olin Graham served as a United States senator from South Carolina from 2003 until his death on July 11, 2026. He died Saturday night at his Washington, D.C. home at age 71, after what his office initially described only…
