Science

Coffee is under threat: how scientists are fighting to save it from extinction

Nature, Published online: 30 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01965-z Coffee plants are critically endangered by climate change. Researchers are finding solutions to keep scientists supplied with their favourite discovery fuel.

Daily briefing: How to brew a climate-friendly coffee

Nature, Published online: 30 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02076-5 Researchers are racing to safeguard coffee from climate change. Plus, how ticks are making people allergic to meat and how AI tools can help neurodivergent students…

Mexico’s National Electoral Institute approves 2 new political parties

Two new parties will be on the 2027 ballot after the National Electoral Institute (INE) granted certification to PAZ and Somos México. Their official status as political parties gives them immediate access to public funding to the tune of…

IBM unveils new record-breaking chip with 100 billion transistors in less than 1 nanometer footprint

IBM pushes transistor density below the long-feared one-nanometer barrier NanoStack abandons flat chip layouts in favour of vertical transistor stacking The prototype delivered 50% more performance during IBM laboratory testing phases IBM…

Floods paralyse Ghana capital, kill three

Torrential rains have caused severe flooding in Accra, Ghana, killing three people and paralyzing the capital. President blames climate change and urbanisa Read More: https://punchng.com/floods-paralyse-ghana-capital-kill-three/

Residents still in Fort Simpson, N.W.T., ordered to shelter in place due to wildfire

Watch: Nasa’s quiet ‘son of Concorde’ paves way for supersonic travel

Needle-nosed X-59 aircraft exceeds the speed of sound with a tolerable ‘sonic thump’ instead of a boom

How ‘Supergirl’ Ran Into Kryptonite At The Box Office: Superman’s Cousin To Lose $125M

Marvel Boss Kevin Feige once said back at a Guaridans of the Galaxy Vol. 2 presser that when it came to the studio’s embrace of deeper character comic book stories like Black Panther and Ant-Man, “The biggest risk was not [in] doing them…

Honeywell Aerospace CEO on Separation, Defense Demand

On the first day of trading following its spin-off from Honeywell International, Honeywell Aerospace CEO Jim Currier discussed the company's new status as a standalone aerospace and defense firm. Currier emphasized the company's embedded…

'Near zero-cost memory expansion through recycling'

Meta recycled retired DDR4 memory instead of purchasing expensive new DRAM CXL technology turned discarded server memory into useful computing capacity Meta reported 25% fewer servers for machine learning inference workloads Memory…

Farmland effective nesting habitat for endangered hoiho penguins, new research finds

Hoiho penguins are declining on the South Island, but a new study says that they can thrive on farmland without the need for expensive reforestation projects.

DeepSeek open sources DSpark, a new framework to speed up LLM inference by up to 85%

Even as the geopolitical conversation around AI continues to grow more fraught following the U.S. government's actions to limit the new models from Anthropic and OpenAI , Chinese open source darling DeepSeek is back with yet another open…