Press review · Thursday, 11 June 2026
11 June 2026
905 articles: 08 May 2025 – 26 October 2026
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theguardian.com
Two children found dead in car in France as heatwave hits Europe
Number of countries issue alerts with sustained and rising temperatures expected to present danger to health
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foxnews.com
How to stop scam texts from targeting aging parents
Learn how to protect elderly parents with dementia from scam texts by using iPhone Screen Time limits, carrier tools and payment restrictions.
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laist.com
State of emergency declared over Boyle Heights warehouse fire; air quality reaches unhealthy level
Smoke from a fire that first ignited Wednesday expands across Los Angeles and beyond. Parks, pools and children's activities closed by L.A. County over air quality concerns.
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nbcnews.com
World’s most sensitive radio telescope array set to be built in Nevada desert
Comprising 1,650 individual radio dishes, the telescope aims to study supermassive black holes, spinning dead stars known as pulsars and fast radio bursts from deep space.
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foxweather.com
First official day of summer is on Sunday. Here's what happens during summer solstice
With the final days of spring upon us and summer approaching, people look forward to the summer solstice, which marks the official astronomical start of the new season.
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LA declares state of emergency over Boyle Heights warehouse fire
Smoke from a fire that first ignited Wednesday continues to blanket parts of Los Angeles.
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‘It’s a scam’: Americans express unease over SpaceX’s influence on retirement savings
Guardian readers in the US share concerns about how the SpaceX IPO and AI boom affect their retirement accounts
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arstechnica.com
A bold satellite rescue mission came together in record time, but will it work?
I consider this a success already, just from the fact that we're even going to try this."
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adn.com
U.S. scientific instruments in oceans off Alaska and elsewhere to remain in place
After a public outcry and a unanimous Senate vote, the National Science Foundation dropped plans to remove parts of the Ocean Observatories Initiative system.
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One of America's most dangerous fault lines reaches highest stress levels in 1,000 years, study finds
Just 50 miles from downtown Los Angeles, a critical junction where two of California's most powerful fault systems meet has been quietly accumulating stress levels matching 1,000-year highs, new research suggests.
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SpaceX to buy AI coding firm Anysphere for $60bn and passes Amazon valuation
Elon Musk firm adds startup behind Cursor app to its portfolio with xAI and reaches $2.8tn market capitalisation
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pbs.org
Lawmakers fight to stop the Trump administration's dismantling of a $386 million ocean observatory project
Monday’s pushback against the Republican administration’s actions comes as scientists are set to remove instruments from the Pacific and as an El Niño event is predicted to arrive this summer.
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nbcnews.com
1,000 times faster than Hubble: Up close with the NASA space telescope meant to unlock the cosmos
After it launches in August, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is expected to survey far more of the sky than any space telescope before it.
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Russia appears set to finally address long-term, serious space station cracks
This has been a persistent, behind-the-scenes dispute between NASA and Roscosmos.
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abc.net.au
Is SpaceX worth $3 trillion? Of course not, but that's not the point
To get a sense of the difference between the Tesla and SpaceX IPOs, consider that 1.7 billion seconds ago was 1972, when Elton John released Rocket Man, while 1.7 trillion seconds ago was 52,000BC, when we shared the planet with Neanderthals.
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Weather tracker: heat, humidity and thunderstorms a danger at World Cup
With matches in 16 cities across the US, Mexico and Canada, players and fans face an array of weather-related challenges
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tech.yahoo.com
Science fiction? Musk's lofty SpaceX goals unrealistic, skeptics say
Elon Musk's SpaceX has made awe-inspiring achievements since its founding over two decades ago and has big ideas -- colonies on Mars, orbital AI data centers, rapidly reusable rockets -- for the future.While the idea of moving energy-intensive AI data centers off-Earth may sound appealing, most experts remain skeptical.
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Share your views on SpaceX’s stock market debut
Americans’ financial futures are about to tied to the fortunes of Elon Musk with the world’s largest ever stock market debut. How do you feel about this?
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Goblin shark with face ‘not even a mother would love’ seen alive in natural habitat for first time
Elusive creatures have previously only been seen on fishing lines and experts know ‘virtually nothing about them’
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A solar-powered rubbish-eating boat? The vessel chomping plastic waste out of the sea
Guided by floating barriers, the Interceptor has already stopped more than 143,000lbs of rubbish from entering the Pacific from one LA river
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nbcnews.com
El Niño is officially here, and this one could be a doozy
Among the effects predicted: drought in the Pacific Northwest, flooding risk in the South, more Pacific hurricanes, high ocean heat and visits from unusual fish and sharks.
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Video shows angler freeing great white shark after surprise catch at Nantucket
Footage shows Elliot Sudal hauling the shark from the surf before releasing it within seconds, sparking online reaction
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El Nino is here. It'll be big, bad and costly, scientists fear
El Nino, Nature's chaotic climate agent, has formed in a warmed-up Pacific Ocean and is expected to grow to historic strength, meteorologists announced Thursday.
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skyatnightmagazine.com
Space elevators could one day exist, transporting us off-Earth with the push of a button. Here's how they would work | BBC Sky at Night Magazine
What is a space elevator and how would one work? We look at the science behind building an elevator to take us into space.
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space.com
NASA's canceled Artemis hardware contracts reached $5.9 billion, audit finds
NASA was on track to pay nearly half a billion dollars for a stage adapter. A stage adapter should not cost half a billion dollars.
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European heatwave is worst ever and impossible without climate crisis, scientists say
Study also finds high humidity means people in hundreds of cities are enduring their worst ever heat stress
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nbcnews.com
What to know about ‘doublet’ earthquakes like the destructive pair that hit Venezuela
The twin earthquakes occurred in a complex fault system that had likely been accumulating stress for more than two centuries, experts said.
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sltrib.com
Utah officials warn of ‘totally unprecedented’ water shortages as towns run dry
Streams and wells are running low and dry across Utah while Lake Powell nears a record low. Meanwhile, states still can't agree on how to share the river.
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12-year-old American boy attacked by shark while vacationing in the Bahamas
A 12-year-old boy was injured after being bitten by a shark while swimming in the Bahamas. The boy's mother told the Royal Bahamas Police Force that they were on a tour of the Exuma Cays, and the boy was swimming with his brother when the shark attacked him.
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zmescience.com
Your Old Phones Are Probably Sitting in a Drawer and Researchers Say That Is a Bigger Problem Than You Think
People don’t usually plan to hold onto their old devices, but that’s what many end up doing. Better information about recycling and reselling options could change that.
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nbcnews.com
Rural area in Northern California jolted by its biggest quake since 1940
No immediate damage or injuries were reported after the 5.6-magnitude quake in Mendocino County.
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‘No one believed it’: how a YouTube video accidentally proved Libya’s sand cat really does exist
Wildlife photographer Mohammed Almuntasir had no idea what he had found until scientists started to get in touch
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Nasa rover detects potential signatures of ancient microbial life on Mars
Perseverance identifies organic carbon molecules in rocks on riverbed that carried water billions of years ago