Science in the News…

BBC Science News

• EU proposes slowing down cuts to carbon emissions for businesses

• US Republicans accuse Canada of wildfire inaction

• Perseid meteors to light up night sky in one of the year's most active showers

• UK heatwave hits two-week mark

• At least two dead in Texas floods ravaging same area where campers died

• First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star

• Longest dry spell in 30 years for parts of England as heatwave hits two-week mark

• Too hot to fly: the airports at risk from climate change

• Watch: Flood waters surge in Texas after huge rainstorms

• When will it rain again in the UK?

NY Times Science News

• A Mathematical Tribute to the Soccer Ball

• Rare Pair of Improbably Light ‘Super-Puff’ Planets Is Discovered

• Why Does Wildfire Smoke Turn the Sky Orange?

• Astronomers Find an Atmosphere on a Nearby Earthlike Planet

• Archaeologists Unearth a 2,400-Year-Old Sanctuary for the Worship of Odysseus

• Meet Earth’s Newest Monkey. (And Check Out Its Orange Lips.)

• New Jersey Couple Aids Meteorite Discovery After it Crashes Through Their Roof

• New Winged Robot Can Fly and Swim Like a Puffin

• Researchers Claim to Have Solved the Perplexing ‘Reverse Sprinkler’ Problem That Stumped Feynman

• The Latest Texas Floods Tested Warning Systems. This Time, They Passed.