Science in the News…

BBC Science News

• Mystery interstellar object could be oldest known comet

• Indonesian volcano spews massive ash cloud as it erupts again

• Did US government cuts contribute to the Texas tragedy?

• 200 million year-old flying reptile species found

• Tiny creatures gorge, get fat, and help fight global warming

• Ancient Egyptian history may be rewritten by DNA bone test

• Recent droughts are 'slow-moving global catastrophe' - UN report

• Will there be a drought where I live?

• Work begins to create artificial human DNA from scratch

• India sends its first astronaut into space in 41 years

NY Times Science News

• Earth Is Spinning Faster, Making Some Summer Days Shorter

• How Much of Our ‘Math, Revealed’ Series Did You Retain? Try This Quiz.

• This Jungle Plant Is a Good Landlord to Its Tenant Ants

• Trump Seeks to Cut Basic Scientific Research by Roughly One-Third, Report Shows

• How Elephants Say They Like Them Apples

• A 37,000-Year Chronicle of What Once Ailed Us

• Trump’s Budget Would Clip Bird Banding, and Hunters Are Not Happy

• Trump’s D.E.I. Cuts Are Hurting Rural, White Americans, Too

• Increasingly Acidic Seas Threaten Oyster Farming

• Ben Jealous, Sierra Club’s Executive Director, on Leave After Rocky Tenure