NOAA expects El Niño to bring more rain to much of the southern United States and warmer conditions across large areas of the country. Drought relief is possible, but forecasters warn of flooding risks and below-normal snowfall in parts of the north.
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A shipwreck near Turkey’s Kekova Island dates back as much as 4,700 years, archaeologists say. Its wooden hull has vanished, but jars recovered from the site still contain residue that researchers are studying.
A magnitude 7.7 earthquake shook Panama on Friday, sending residents into the streets and prompting tsunami warnings across the region. Authorities were assessing damage, while a U.S. warning center said waves of about 3 to 9 feet were possible along Panama’s coast.
Trump presented national science and technology medals to six tech leaders as his administration announced AI resources for federal research and a nuclear space-exploration partnership. The ceremony followed a suspension affecting Microsoft and other companies’ access to a foreign-worker program.
NASA’s Crew-12 splashed down off Los Angeles after 237 days in space. The four crew members conducted research and maintenance aboard the International Space Station.
Isaias became the Atlantic season’s first hurricane late Wednesday and was expected to approach the U.S. Gulf Coast on Friday, with landfall possible late Friday or early Saturday. Forecasters warned of storm surge, heavy rain and flooding as coastal communities prepared.
Zavodovski Island lost 63% of its chinstrap penguins between 2011 and 2025, a study found. Researchers link the decline to warming seas and changes in the birds’ krill supply.
Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work showing how reactions can favor, or exclusively produce, one of two mirror-image molecular forms. Their discoveries have helped chemists design reactions for pharmaceutical manufacturing.