The New Yorker

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Expectant Father Falls to His Death While Rock Climbing, Leaving 8-Week Pregnant Wife to Begin ‘Parenthood Alone’

Andy Paul Ferrarone, a San Diego software engineer and triplet, died after a rock climbing accident in Big Bear. Now his ...

New patent could pave the way for more effective growth hormone therapies

A newly filed patent from researchers at Ohio University could help develop more effective treatments for disorders related ...

A promising hormone drug leads to $10 billion sale of San Diego’s Crinetics Pharmaceuticals

Vertex bought the San Diego startup, projecting over $5 million in revenue per year for Crinetics developments.
The Hill

Preliminary findings reveal Graham died of ‘aortic dissection’: Medical examiner

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) died on Saturday of an aortic dissection due to arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease, the office of the Washington, D.C., chief medical examiner said Sunday. “The death ...
Mongabay

Lydia Möcklinghoff, champion of the giant anteater, has died in a plane crash. She was 45

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Lydia Möcklinghoff, a German biologist and science communicator, died on July 3, 2026, aged 45, in a plane crash near Campo Grande, Brazil, during ...
Ars Technica

A Jupiter-size planet that escaped its star’s death

WD 1856 b is the only confirmed case of a planet that survived the death of a Sun-like star. It’s a Jupiter-size world orbiting a white dwarf—the burned-out remnant of a Sun-like star. Now, a team of ...
Smithsonian Magazine

This Giant Planet May Have Survived the Death of Its Star. The James Webb Space Telescope Just Found Its Atmosphere

When astronomers discovered the planet WD 1856 b in 2020, the gas giant seemed to defy their expectations of what happens to objects orbiting a dead star. The Jupiter-sized planet circles a white ...
Gizmodo

A Physics Giant Had His Papers Retracted Decades After His Death. Here’s Why

Update: As of July 7, Springer Nature has reinstated the two essays by Max Planck. The articles now denote the initial retraction date (December 23, 2011) and the ...
IFLScience

The Temperature Of A Giant Planet Reveals How It Survived Its Star’s Death – Earth Might Do The Same

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...
Phys.org

How a giant planet survived its star's death, then migrated inward

Artist concept of the gas giant planet WD1856b orbiting a white dwarf star. The planet is seven times larger than the Earth-sized white dwarf it orbits. WD1856b has methane and hazes in its atmosphere ...
Mashable

A giant planet beat the odds and actually got hotter after its star died

The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed the first atmosphere around a surviving planet around a white dwarf. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Ralf Crawford illustration A giant planet somehow heated ...