Court filings say 284 Department of Energy grants were selected for termination based on whether they were tied to states that voted for Kamala Harris and had two Democratic senators. The Energy Department denies that the cancellation decisions were politically motivated.
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Hong Wang and Yu Deng became the first Chinese mathematicians to win the Fields Medal, with Wang also becoming the first Chinese woman and only the third woman overall to receive the prize. Their wins sparked celebration on Chinese social media and discussion about where top Chinese researchers train and work.
Explorers have found the wreckage of Pan Am’s Clipper Endeavor 2,000 feet below the Atlantic off Puerto Rico, 74 years after the crash killed 52 people. The 1952 disaster helped prompt mandatory preflight safety briefings and better flotation requirements on commercial aircraft.
More than 50 million people in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic faced severe weather risks as wildfire smoke began clearing in the East but lingered over the Midwest. Storms could bring damaging winds, hail, isolated tornadoes and flash flooding from Washington to Boston.
A 67 million-year-old T. rex nicknamed Gus sold at Sotheby’s in New York for $50.1 million, the highest price ever paid for a dinosaur fossil. The sale exceeded estimates but renewed concerns among paleontologists about fossils entering private collections.
Researchers estimate more than 2,700 people in England and Wales may have died from heat-related causes during record heatwaves in May and June. Scientists said climate change made the heat more intense, adding up to 4C to maximum temperatures.
The Trump administration finalized a rule narrowing the definition of “harm” under the Endangered Species Act, removing habitat modification from a key protection. Environmental groups warn the change could speed extinctions and say they plan to sue.
Wally Funk, a Mercury 13 pilot who was denied a NASA astronaut career but reached space in 2021 aboard Blue Origin, has died at 87. She spent more than seven decades in aviation and trained thousands of pilots.