Scientists say carbon pollution drove a massive expansion of marine heatwaves around Europe this year, with peak sea temperatures that would have been virtually impossible without it.

Space

A vest flown around the Moon cut a solar-storm dose by 60%

Three findings this week were about the environment itself.

Biotech

One eye chart, a billion dollars: the week the yardstick decided everything

EyePoint lost nearly a billion dollars in an hour because a vision drug missed on the measure the trial had picked, while winning on the one patients complain about.

Money

Tax location: why the same investment in two accounts ends up as two different amounts

Where you hold an investment changes how much of it you keep - and the choice between paying tax now or later comes down to one thing almost nobody names.

Sports

Sport learned how to keep old bodies going. It never learned when to stop paying for them.

A record dozen NFL linemen aged 35 or over started a game last season, and Aaron Donald is weighing a comeback at 35.

Gaming

A studio listed 10 reasons not to buy its own game. It shot into Steam's top 10

Buyers cannot tell a finished game from a broken one before they pay.

Food

Canada's first wet year of the decade became a disease year, and the spray bill came due

Fungal disease swept Canada's export crops while Europe burned dry, two egg outbreaks ran on two continents, and a genome paper quietly explained why farmers buy seed every year.

Cyber

A criminal is selling deletions nobody can check

A ransomware crew is emailing victims offering to erase their stolen files for up to $60,000.