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A study published in the journal Science found that workers in jobs that allow remote work reported higher rates of depression, anxiety, mental health provider visits, and prescription psychiatric medication use compared to workers in jobs that cannot be done remotely. The research, led by Natalia Emanuel, an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, drew on data from five large national surveys of American workers. Researchers compared "remotable" occupations such as software engineering and marketing against "non-remotable" ones such as surgery and mechanical engineering.
Read the spine →Current and former EPA scientists told CNN they are being pressured by supervisors to alter chemical safety reviews to reduce or eliminate findings of health risk for consumer products. The EPA's Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention is responsible for assessing chemicals under the 2016 update to the Toxic Substances Control Act. The EPA, in a statement to CNN, said it is pursuing "gold standard science" based on realistic exposure scenarios, and denied that assessments are being engineered toward predetermined outcomes.
Read the spine →Ginkgo Bioworks, a Boston-based biotechnology company co-founded by MIT graduate students, operates an autonomous laboratory where robots and artificial intelligence handle laboratory tasks including pipetting, experiment scheduling, and protein synthesis. A collaboration between Ginkgo and OpenAI using ChatGPT to design protein experiments resulted in a reported 40 percent reduction in costs and more than 30,000 experiments run over six months, though the paper describing those results has not yet been peer reviewed. Experts including Stanford bioengineering researcher Drew Endy have raised concerns that AI-enabled automation could lower the barriers to misuse, including potential biosecurity threats.
Read the spine →Rising gasoline prices have prompted renewed interest in electric vehicles, even as Republicans ended the federal EV tax credit worth up to $7,500 last year. A Department of Energy calculator comparing a 2016 Jeep Wrangler to a 2025 Chevrolet Equinox EV showed the EV becoming cheaper to own and operate after roughly five years for one Phoenix-area driver. A Carnegie Mellon University researcher and a recent MIT study both found that EVs reduce emissions and are increasingly cost-competitive across most of the United States.
Read the spine →A Phase 2 clinical trial of 157 patients found that a personalized mRNA vaccine called intismeran, combined with the immunotherapy drug Keytruda, reduced the risk of melanoma recurrence by 49% compared to Keytruda alone after five years. The results were presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology conference on June 1, 2026, and published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. Moderna developed the vaccine in collaboration with Merck, the maker of Keytruda.
Read the spine →Open-weight AI models — whose underlying parameters are publicly available — can have their built-in safety guardrails permanently removed, allowing them to respond to any request without restriction. A technique called "abliteration" has become increasingly popular, with Hugging Face now listing over 6,000 abliterated models compared to roughly 600 in 2024. New tools like Heretic have reduced the process to two lines of instructions and a few minutes on a consumer laptop.
Read the spine →Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploded on its launchpad at Cape Canaveral around 9 p.m. Thursday during a hotfire test, producing a large fireball that lit up the night sky. Blue Origin owner Jeff Bezos confirmed all personnel were safe and said the company would "rebuild whatever needs rebuilding." The explosion destroyed at least one lightning tower and damaged a transporter erector structure at the launch complex.
Read the spine →Climate change is extending the period of extreme heat in Europe, with peak temperatures increasingly occurring during the academic calendar. Schools, which often lack cooling infrastructure, are among the buildings most exposed to this trend.
Read the spine →A Fox News poll conducted May 15–18, 2026, among 1,002 registered voters found that roughly 8 in 10 consider federal action on AI regulation extremely or very urgent. By a 61-point margin, voters prioritize protecting the public interest (80%) over promoting innovation (19%). The poll was conducted jointly by Beacon Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research (R), with a margin of sampling error of ±3 percentage points.
Read the spine →Scientists writing in the journal Geoscientific Model Development stated that extreme warming forecasts of 4 to 5 degrees have become "implausible," and projected that the range of future climate scenarios for the 21st century will be narrower than previously assessed. The authors attributed the revision to lower costs of renewables, the emergence of climate policy, and recent emission trends.
Read the spine →The Trump administration released a second batch of declassified UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) files on Friday as part of its Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE) program. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman told Fox News Digital the documents surface real unexplained phenomena but do not include evidence of recovered alien bodies or spacecraft. Officials indicated additional file releases from agencies including the CIA could follow.
Read the spine →Cape Verde, a West African island nation, has been named the African Capital of Culture for 2028. The country hosted two international music festivals in April, with music described as interwoven with the sounds of daily life there.
Read the spine →NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said in a Friday interview that two waves of declassified UAP files released by the Trump administration document decades of unexplained aerial sightings but contain no evidence of recovered alien craft or remains. The disclosures are part of the Trump administration's Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE) program. Officials say additional file releases from agencies including the CIA are expected.
Read the spine →A heat wave struck Western Europe in late May, with the United Kingdom recording its hottest May day on record at 34.8 degrees Celsius (94.6 Fahrenheit) at Kew Gardens in London, breaking the previous record of 32.8 C set in 1922 and 1944. France also recorded its hottest May day, with temperatures reaching 36 C in the southwest. At least several deaths were reported across the UK and France, including drownings and deaths linked to outdoor sports events.
Read the spine →Pope Leo XIV on Monday publicly presented his first encyclical, titled "Magnifica Humanitas" ("Magnificent Humanity"), a roughly 42,300-word document addressed to Catholics and "every person of goodwill" that calls for robust government regulation of artificial intelligence and warns of its risks to human dignity, labor, democracy, and warfare. The document was formally signed on May 15, 2026, the 135th anniversary of "Rerum Novarum," the 1891 encyclical by Leo XIII that addressed workers' rights during the Industrial Revolution. The pope presented the encyclical at the Vatican alongside Christopher Olah, a co-founder of the AI company Anthropic.
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