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Think it’s hot now? The next five years will smash records, UN says

In the next five years, the Earth is overwhelmingly likely to surge again and again past the international climate threshold set as safe and shatter its hottest-year record along the way, according to new United Nations climate projections.

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Think it's hot now? World headed for repeated heat record shocks, warns UN

New United Nations climate projections reveal Earth will likely surpass the safe climate threshold repeatedly in the next five years. The hottest year on record is expected to be broken. The Arctic will overheat, and the Amazon faces dangerous drought and wildfires. These events will bring more extreme weather, impacting…

The Economic Times

Best Times and Places to Watch the Rare Blue Micromoon Rising This Weekend Before It Vanishes Until 2053

The rare Blue Apogee Micromoon appears on 30 May, glowing golden-orange near the horizon in a celestial event not seen again until 2053.

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Think it's hot now? The next five years will smash records, UN says

A new report from the United Nations weather agency gives a three-out-of-four chance that the next five years will average more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures

The Independent UK

What Shiva Says Before A Soul Leaves The Body

For centuries, people across India have believed that dying in Kashi is not an ordinary death but a direct path to liberation. It is said that in the final moments of life, when the soul struggles between fear and freedom, Lord Shiva himself appears and whispers the sacred Tarak Mantra…

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Red Balloon launches India's first commercial near-space balloon

On Wednesday, the company's VISTA platform ascended nearly 25 km above Earth from Vijayawada as part of "Mission SANA", carrying payloads from seven national and international partners, including propulsion technology demonstrations, biological experiment systems, onboard computing platforms and navigation validation systems. The company said all payload missions were completed successfully.

The Economic Times

World's smallest deployable operational optical ground station proves capability in successful trials

OXFORD, England, May 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Archangel Lightworks, the laser communications company, has successfully completed field trials of the TERRA-M, the world's smallest deployable operational optical ground station, proving its capability. The news was warmly welcomed by Liz Lloyd, the UK Space Minister, and the trials were funded by…

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How to catch this week’s rare blue moon event ― that won’t happen again until 2028

But don’t be disappointed if it’s not bright turquoise

The Independent UK

The Cow Is a Bioreactor. Ashton Ostrander Is Building a Better One

The Maia Farms co-founder spent six months reverse-engineering a cow. What he found is now quietly reshaping how global food brands think about protein.

International Business Times

'Across The Unknown' Just Got A Huge Upgrade — With A Beloved 'Star Trek' Ship

Across the Unknown, 2026's real-time strategy game based on Star Trek: Voyager, just introduced a beloved ship in a brand new update for the game.

Inverse

“Will Actively Hunt People”: 65 Scary Science Facts That Might Change How You See The World

We should all strive to be curious, open-minded, and seek to get as close to the objective truth as possible. However, this doesn’t change the fact that, well, the truth can often be pretty uncomfortable. You need a lot of emotional resilience to live with the knowledge about how the…

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Laser beams blast through the cosmos | Space photo of the day for May 27, 2026

Fear not, these lasers are just doing science.

Space

Watch NASA reveal its Artemis 3 astronauts today (and get a live moon program update)

On June 9, NASA will reveal the astronauts who will fly on the Artemis 3 docking mission in Earth orbit next year.

Space

'One of the great unresolved embarrassments of physics': It's been 340 years since Newton and scientists still haven't solved the secret of gravity

Big G is the oldest fundamental constant in physics and remains the least clearly defined. One scientist has spent a decade attempting to crack the mystery of the gravitational constant, and it all came down to the opening of a single envelope.

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The Economic Times

Red Balloon Aerospace launches India's first indigenous super-pressure balloon

Red Balloon Aerospace launched India's first indigenous super-pressure balloon, VISTA. This high-altitude balloon carried payloads from seven partners. SPBs offer advantages over satellites, being cheaper and closer to Earth. This allows for higher resolution and faster data. The company plans more launches this financial year.

Times Life

Women Are the Creators of This Earth, and Men Are Simply Their Creations

For six thousand years, men have written the myths. They put a male god in the sky, gave him a beard, and had him fashion the first woman from a spare rib, as if the womb could be retrofitted from a bone. It is the most audacious lie in human…

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"We can turn people who have never heard us before into fans." If demonic riffs wrapped around heavenly melodies give you a lift, take the Earth Tongue elevator

New Zealand duo Earth Tongue's third album Dungeon Vision is out now

International Business Times UK

The 3 Body Problem Netflix Poison Plot: China Executes Former Gaming Exec Over Billionaire's Murder Case

The execution of Xu Yao for the murder of Yoozoo Games' Lin Qi revives interest in a high-profile corporate murder case linked to Netflix's '3 Body Problem'.

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How Europe’s rapid warming has fuelled a record May heatwave

Europe is bracing for more extreme heat after record May temperatures swept across Britain, Ireland and France this week – with scientists saying a “heat dome” over western Europe is combining with human-driven climate change, shifting weather patterns and rapid Arctic warming to intensify heat across the world’s fastest-warming continent.

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What Hindu Scriptures Say About The Universe Will Shock You

What if the universe is far bigger than galaxies, stars, and planets? What if ancient Hindu scriptures described invisible worlds long before modern science began exploring cosmic mysteries? The concept of the 14 Lokas is one of the most fascinating ideas in Hindu philosophy. These realms are not just places…

International Business Times UK

'Pretty Sure It Passed Us Already': Mysterious 3I/ATLAS Brightening Sends UFO 'Signal' Theories Into Overdrive

The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has sparked online speculation about alien technology after viral TikTok videos claimed unusual behaviour. Astronomers attribute its brightening to natural processes.

The Conversation

Guide to the classics: Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World pioneered speculative fiction, 400 years ago

The Blazing World is a testament to how far the written novel has travelled in the past 400 years. A literary time capsule, it holds within it the origins of a genre we now call speculative fiction.

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Alison Brie says men are more excited about her He-Man villain role than anything else she has done

The actress has also revealed fans across generations have reacted enthusiastically to her casting as Evil-Lyn in the upcoming Masters of the Universe reboot alongside Jared Leto and Nicholas Galitzine.

The Conversation

A ‘supereruption’ transformed NZ 350,000 years ago. We now know how it happened

Some 350,000 years ago, the centre of New Zealand’s North Island appeared much different than the mountainous, scrub-covered landscape it is today.

Space

Artemis moon base will cover 'hundreds of square miles' with hopping drones and new lunar rovers, NASA says

NASA envisions its moon base covering hundreds of square miles, and hopping scout drones may mark the facility's perimeter. The agency just awarded $1 billion in contracts to get the ball rolling.

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