Click Here to Read: Trump, Ending Decades of Protection, Opens Wild Habitats to Drilling and Mining: The rule change ends a safeguard that had been in place for 50 years and could hasten the demise of imperiled animals by By Catrin Einhorn and Maxine Joselow in The New York Times on July 10, 2026.
Piping Plover. Image: Mathew Schwartz Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Click Here to Read: For Years We Searched for Alzheimer’s in the Brain. Now, Researchers Suggest It May Begin Elsewhere. A large-scale genetic study suggests some of the processes driving Alzheimer’s disease may begin in the lungs, gut, and blood, years before reaching the brain by Rakefet Tavor on the Epoch News website on July 6, 2026.
An illustration of the neuropathology of Alzheimer’s disease Image: BruceBlaus. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: Action! NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory begins capturing the greatest cosmic movie ever made: The 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time has officially started, marking the beginning of a new era in astronomy and astrophysics on the US National Science Foundation website on June 30, 2026.
Rubin Observatory and Its Target. Image: Rubin Observatory/NSF/AURA/B. Quint, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
