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The Swift spacecraft inside Hangar AE at Cape Canaveral, Florida, in July 2004, four months before launch.

NASA ends its Swift observatory after nearly 22 years and more than 2,000 gamma-ray bursts

Exterior view of the CDC's Roybal campus in Atlanta, Georgia, the agency's headquarters.

CDC counts 4,588 measles cases in 2026, and 96% of the patients were unvaccinated or of unknown status

The uncrewed Orion capsule photographed by its own solar array camera halfway to the Moon during the Artemis I mission, in November 2022.

NASA turns Artemis III into an Earth-orbit docking test with both Moon landers and keeps the landing in 2028

A junction between the Ngezi and Lumumba neighbourhoods, in the Mbunya commune of Bunia, capital of Ituri province, in 2022.

DR Congo launches the Tumaini vaccine trial in the country's largest Ebola outbreak, with 9,704 cases and 4,687 deaths

A red-level heatwave alert in the Paris metro, at Châtelet station, on 13 July 2026.

Climate and health

Summer 2026 killed more than 50,000 people in European cities, and two-thirds of the deaths are blamed on global warming

PHP source code displayed on a screen, in a 2015 photograph.

AI tools uncover two 14-year-old PHP flaws that expose the servers behind 70% of the web

Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. The IAPA assembly marks 30 years since his speech to the organisation.

IAPA opens its 82nd General Assembly in Bogotá with more than 70 participants and a tribute to García Márquez's 1996 speech

The Euclid space telescope in a cleanroom, being secured to the adaptor of the rocket that carried it into space, in June 2023.

Europe's Euclid telescope discovers its first comet, 1.3 billion km from Earth

Colourised electron micrograph of Ebola virus particles (in blue) budding from an infected cell, made at a NIAID laboratory in the United States in 2014.

Nigeria confirms its first Ebola case in 12 years, and tests point to the same strain as the Congo outbreak

Tesla's Gigafactory Texas, near Austin, photographed in June 2022. Musk named the Terafab chip project in Austin as one of the areas where the two companies' work overlaps.

Tesla and SpaceX form special committees to study a merger, and Musk says treating it as certain "would be overstating it"

The sign at the main entrance of the FDA campus in Silver Spring, Maryland, in front of Building 21, home of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, in 2010.

FDA approves the first immunotherapy for locally advanced rectal cancer, and 71% of trial patients needed no surgery, chemo or radiation

A child with the classic fourth-day measles rash, in an undated photograph from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

US measles cases reach 4,410 this year, nearly double the total for all of 2025

A Copernicus Marine Service visualization of sea surface temperature anomalies on August 25, 2026, with the band of warmer water in red stretching along the central and eastern equatorial Pacific.

NASA satellites are tracking an El Niño that NOAA gives an 83% chance of becoming the strongest since 1950

Guillermo del Toro, one of two filmmakers honoured with the Filmoteca UNAM medal in Morelia, at the Saturn Awards in March 2026.

Morelia film festival opens its 24th edition with 96 titles and UNAM medals for Del Toro and Cuarón

The Federal Aviation Administration's headquarters on Independence Avenue in Washington, D.C.

Air traffic control

The FAA is negotiating an ownership stake in the startup whose AI now advises its air traffic controllers

Qualcomm's headquarters in the La Jolla area of San Diego, California, photographed in December 2015.

A jury found Arm breached its license with Qualcomm and awarded $2. The real stake is $1.5 billion

The Cantona archaeological zone, in eastern Puebla, photographed in 2013. Cantona is one of the cities whose rise coincided with the decline of Tetelihtic, the site where the solar observatory was confirmed.

Mexico confirms a prehispanic solar observatory in Puebla's Sierra Norte, the first recorded outside the Maya area

The office building at 1515 Third Street, in San Francisco's Mission Bay neighborhood, which housed OpenAI's headquarters when the photo was taken in June 2025.

Artificial intelligence

Eight states sue OpenAI and ask courts to bar it from building self-improving models

Visitors at Brasil Game Show in São Paulo in 2017. The archive photo illustrates Brazil's video game market.

Brazil regulates its video game industry, creates the Game Brasil platform and recognises esports as sport

The office building at 1515 Third Street, in San Francisco's Mission Bay neighborhood, which housed OpenAI's headquarters when this photo was taken in June 2025.

National security

An OpenAI engineer is charged with hiding an encrypted audio recorder in the company's executive conference room