Saturday, 4 July 2026

World

Europe counts its heatwave dead — at least 3,700 gone, and the toll is still rising

France, Belgium and the Netherlands report thousands of excess deaths from June's record heat, most of them elderly people who died at home.

Finance

Oil is drowning in its own supply — and the producers keep pumping

A real glut is finally swamping the oil market as Hormuz reopens and OPEC+ readies another output hike.

Tech

Americans are recalling their local officials to stop AI datacenters — and the grid is already buckling

A bipartisan revolt against datacenters spread to at least seven states last month, with residents launching recall votes over projects negotiated in secret.

Mind & body

How your body holds blood sugar steady — two hormones pushing against each other, all day, every day

Blood sugar sits in a tight range because two pancreatic hormones pull in opposite directions at once.

Climate

Europe's heatwave killed thousands — and most of it never looked like a disaster

France logged more than 2,000 excess deaths in a single week as a record June heat scorched the continent; the toll arrives quietly, in hospitals and homes, not in the images we call catastrophe.

Space

A report on why Starliner failed points at the same word twice — overconfidence

NASA's watchdog says the Boeing Starliner crisis that stranded two astronauts came from trusting a design too much and testing it too little — while the week's other space news kept moving.

Biotech

China clears the first CAR-T for a solid tumor — the wall cancer therapy has hit for 15 years

A Shanghai biotech won the world's first approval for a CAR-T therapy against a solid tumor, cracking a problem that has stopped the field since 2010 — plus an AI lab that now wants to make its own drugs, a 40-year-old cancer target finally cornered, and a clue to why some brains shrug off Alzheimer's.

Money

Europe counts its heatwave dead — at least 3,700 gone, and the toll is still rising

Europe counts its heatwave dead — at least 3,700 gone, and the toll is still rising

Oil is drowning in its own supply — and the producers keep pumping

Americans are recalling their local officials to stop AI datacenters — and the grid is already buckling

How your body holds blood sugar steady — two hormones pushing against each other, all day, every day

Europe's heatwave killed thousands — and most of it never looked like a disaster

A report on why Starliner failed points at the same word twice — overconfidence

China clears the first CAR-T for a solid tumor — the wall cancer therapy has hit for 15 years

Opportunity cost — the price of anything is everything you gave up to have it

A lacrosse league just raised $100m like a tech startup — and that's the real story in sport this week

The people making the biggest game ever ask for a union — five months before it can't afford them to strike

The world's biggest chocolate makers are quietly building a Plan B — one with less cocoa in it

An AI agent ran a whole ransomware attack by itself — reading the room and improvising as it went